A 3.1 magnitude tremor rocked the north eastern state of Manipur a couple of hours after the one of 4.4 magnitude striking no less struck panic on Friday.
Originated in Churachandpur, the tremor was felt at 4.05 in the morning forcing the people to get up from the bed fearing the rerun of the massive one in 2015. There was no report of any loss of life and property.
Couple of hours back, Manipur experienced a 4.4 magnitude tremor originated in Ukhrul. The tremor was felt across the state at 10.04 in the evening forcing many people in the high rise buildings to come down to the open space.
“As I was watching television, suddenly I came to feel the jolt as the clock struck at 10.4 in the evening. Then I switched off the light and cams out of my house to the open space,” said Rasin Devi, a local resident of Imphal.
The Centre will resume the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project only after consultations with the people of Assam. This was what Union minister of state for power Piyush Goel told Union Minister of State for Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports Subanshiri Sarbanda Sonowal. No Construction will be undertaken till the matter is sorted out. Goyal informed it to Sonowal when the state BJP president met in New Delhi on Saturday and apprised him of the concern of the people of Assam relating to the Subansiri Hydroelectric project. During their discussion, Goyal told Sonowal that a meeting of various stake holders will be called shortly to discuss their...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi seeks more trains for Assam in the upcoming rail budget. In a letter to railway minister Sadananda Gowda on Saturday, Gogoi stressed a super fast weekly express train between Dibrugarh and Pune. This is apart from daily inter-city express trains between Guwahati and Murkongselek, Guwahati and Naharlagun, Rangiya and Naharlagun, Rangiya and Dibrugarh. He further urged Gowda an alternative railway line stretching from Coochbehar in West Bengal to Abhayapuri in the railway budget, to be presented in parliament on July 8. Gogoi has requested the Centre to introduce a passenger train between Guwahati and Mendipathar in Meghalaya's Garo Hills and fast daily express...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita are understood to have been preparing to urge Sonia Gandhi to resolve the dissidence within the Congress legislature party.Both Gogoi and Kalita are set to hand over an APCC resolution adopted recently to Sonia Gandhi urging the high command to resolve the issue at an earlier date.
Top Congress leaders are all set to hunker down in New Delhi on Sunday to disccuss the debacle in the recent Lok Sabha polls. To be attended by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi, the meeting is expected to be attended by APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita along with new MPs Gaurav Gogoi, Biren Singh Engty, Sushmita Dev. Sources told Assam Times in the capital that the state Congress leadership is likely to blame the dissidence issue as the major reason for the defeat.
The soon to be resumed NHPC work is expected to put the Assam BJP leadership in trouble in the face of the stiff resistance from many parties and organizations. KMSS, who has been spearheading the protest threatens to go for a mass agitation if the authorities fail to halt. AASU also strongly criticized the Centre for move in haste. The students’ body threatens to stage satyagraha on Monday in protest against the move. Asom Gana Parishad is also up in arms against the steps to resume work in Gerukamukh. The has called it an act of deceit on the people of Assam. Caught in this confusion, Union minister and state BJP president Sarbananda Sonowal sauid that power ministry would resume it...
A brain storming AICC session is expected to decide the fate of Tarun Gogoi as chief minister on Sunday. Gogoi and state Congress president Bhubneswar Kalita are set to attend the meeting to analyze the real reasons of poll debacle. Apart from senior party leaders, the newly elected party MPs are also expected to attend the meeting. Both Gogoi and Kalita will brief AK Antony on the reasons behind the party’s debacle in the recent Lok Sabha polls Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi are scheduled to hold separate talks with Gogoi. The Gandhis are going through the findings of the Malikarjun Kharge who visited the...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s fate seems to have been hanging in balance as party high command is believed to have been looking for his replacement. Sonia Gandhi is likely to take the final call likely by the next week. But she has been waiting for Rahul Gandhi who is on a foreign visit. The decision to replace Gogoi was taken after Mallikarjun Kharge, submitted a report to Sonia Gandhi on June 30 suggesting that Gogoi has not been enjoying majority in the Congress legislative party.
Police have extracted some sensational disclosures on rhino poaching after they arrested two poachers in Morigaon district on Wednesday. The duo were believed to have made a disclosure on the rhino poaching network and smuggling of rhino horn. Identified as Khairul Islam and Hanif Ali, the poachers were nabbed from the Pobitora Wilflife Sanctuary on Wednesday.
Forest guards in Kaziranga National Park claimed to have killed a dreaded rhino poacher at an encounter on Wednesday. The encounter took place near Gotonga forest camp under the Bagori range of the national park in the morning where the poacher was killed on the spot. Later forest guards recovered a modified AK-47 rifle along with 16 rounds of the live cartidges.
The eviction drive is a step in turn direction if it really tends to clear the hills and wetlands in Guwahati. Those demanding settlements in the hilltops can not escape the responsibility for the paralyzing waterlogging in the city. These were more or less of what senior journalists based in Guwahati said on Wednesday. Participating in a discussion organized by the Journalists Union of Assam (JUA) at the Guwahati Press Club, speakers after speakers endorsed the drive to evict the illegal settlers in Bharalu and hill tops saying that the action is too late. But they said that there is still a ray of hope. In his brief speech senior journalist Ajit Patowary said that the practice of...
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