GUWAHATI: Yet another ACS officer lands in dire trouble after the Assam Government has placed under suspension alleging her involvement in the nefarious APSC scam.
She is none other than Avishika Baruah, the circle officer in Nazira whose involvement in the scam came to light a couple of months after she appeared her handwritten test conducted by the special operation unit of Dibrugarh police who have been probing the case.
Last week Baruah offered to turn approver in the case where over 35 officers including chairman Rakesh Paul have been jailed.
Prime minister Narendra Modi has assured Assam all possible to help the state mitigate the misery in the tine of flood as he reviewed the situation in Guwahati on Tuesday. Flanked by governor Banwarilal Purhir, Assam chief minister Sarbananda and his senior ministerial colleagues presented before Modi an audio visual presentation of the flood fury where 83 people were killed. The government further sought a huge around Rs 30,000 crore fund to repair the ravaged roads and bridges apart from the measures to permanently resolve the perennial monsoon misery. Later, Modi addressed BJP, AGP and BPF legislators abd asked them to help the government work efficiently.
A mild intensity tremor jolted Assam triggering massive panic early in the morning on Monday. Originated in Darrang, the 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck the north eastern state at 6.37 in the morning. As thr earth started shaking for a few seconds, people in the high rise buildings in Guwahati, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Nsgaon and its adjoining areas started coming down to the open roads fearing a massive one. But there is no report of casualty and loss of property.
Yet another mild tremor jolted Manipur triggering massive panic early in the morning on Sunday. Originated in Churachandpur, the 3.3 magnitude earthquake struck the north eastern state at 3.31 in the morning. As thr earth started rattling for a few seconds, people in tjr high rise buildings in Imphal and its adjoining areas started coming down to the open roads fearing the 2015 rerun. But there is no report of casualty and loss of property.
Caught in a barrage of criticism, prime minister Narendra Modi is on a day long visit to Assam to take stock of the flood fury after the state counts nearly 80 people dead. According to sources in New Delhi, the prime minister is arriving in Guwahati at 10 in the morning and is scheduled to make an aerial survey in Lakhimpur and other worst-hit districts where properties worth several crores were ravaged. Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and senior colleague Himanta Biswa Sarma are also accompanying Modi in the day long programme. Modi drew flak across the state for failing to reach the marooned people forcing him to suddenly finalise his visit to Assam where lakhs if people in 15...
The Supreme Court’s verdict on Wednesday against the Assam Parliamentary Secretaries (Appointment, Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2004 will have bearing impact in the north eastern states of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. Both the north eastern states have 26 parliamentary secretaries in the 60member legislative assemblies. The apex court judgment came a day after new Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang appointed 26 parliamentary secretaries to appease the expelled NPF legislators who helped his unseat the incumbent. Same it was is in Arunachal Pradesh where Chief Minister Pema Khandu recruited parliamentary secretaries to help them...
In a significant judgment the Supreme Court on Wednesday called unconstitutional a law in Assam that paved the way for appointment of parliamentary secretaries in the rank of minister of state to pacify the disgruntled ruling party legislators enacted in 2004. A division bench of the country’s top court comprising Justice J Chelameswar, Justice RK Agrawal and Justice AM Sapre said that the legislation was unwanted in Assam to create these posts of parliamentary secretaries. The court said, “Article 194 does not expressly authorise the state legislature to create offices such as the one in question.” The Act allowed the government to accord the status of a minister of...
The anger against North East Electric Power Corporation (Neepco) refuses to die down. A leading organization in Assam starts mounting pressure on the government to rein in the state-owned hydel power company holding it responsible for the devastating flood scene in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji. Talking to Assam Times, North East Dialogue Forum officials demanded a judicial probe to ascertain under what circumstances NEEPCO has released excess water from the Ranganadi dam recently which brought brimful misery to lakhs of people. The influential KMSS has stepped up its tirade against NEEPCO and announced an agitation against big dams alleging it the main reasons behind the...
Petrol and LPG might not reach the people of Assam along with the other north eastern states if the Assam Petroleum Mazdoor Union resorts to an indefinite strike fromThursday reiterating a slew of demands. Talking to Assam Times, the Union leaders in Guwahati said they have found no option but to take resort to the strike in support of their long standing demands. “We have over one lakh members in the entire north eastern region deployed in at loading centres, oil and gas tankers and retail outlets and gas agencies. Our demands are not new. But the authorities are least bothered. What should we do?,” said a senior member of the organization. He said, “We are...
The flood toll in Assam stands at 77 this year with the death of yet another person in the north eastern state. But this year, electrocution death is much higher than that of the drowning death in the time of flood. In Guwahati alone, over a dozen of people died during the last two months triggering shock and anger among the people who blamed it all on the government failure to rein in the scene.
A marginal let-up in the incessant rains suggests some relief in the overall flood fury in Assam on Wednesday. But fear of more rains might again wreak havoc in 17 flood hit districts where life starts limping back to normal during the last 24 hours after the loss of 77 people apart from properties worth crores of rupees. But unofficial toll is said to have crossed 100. According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), the current flood waves have hit 23,118 in nine worst hit districts. The Brahmaputra and its tributaries keep flowing above the danger level in many places where the surging waters have rendered lakhs of people homeless. More...
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