Sonapur : One person has been killed and many injured when one bus and one truck collided at 8 pm on Tuesday at Sonapur near Guwahati in NH 37.
The person who has been killed has been identified as Dhal Chetri, Age 35 years. Many of the injured are in critical conditions and have been admitted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital.
The critically injured people are Arun Vaidya of Sapekhati, Prakash Choudhury ( location unknown) . Sajad Ahmed of Bokakhat, Pranjit Dutta of Birubari in Guwahati, Daulat Singh and Mrs Pabitri Singh of Nepal.
PermalinkSubmitted by abhijit singha on Sun, 24/02/2008 - 11:13
This incident only reinforces our belief that value of life in India and Assam in particular is dismally low, our roads are unsafe , our drivers are bereft of responsibilities, our vehicles are unfit.... who do we turn to then to help us undergo a safe journey
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Come Thursday. Assam is set to get its private helicopter service. The first private chopper service is expected to ferry tourists. Moreover, it would help the patients get airlifted in the remote areas for treatment.
Talking to reporters, Rudra GTL Aviation Pvt Ltd officials said that they would launch the service with two choppers from Thursday. The director of the company, Monosij Roy said that the two choppers are operating between Guwahati and the Bodoland Territorial Council area, Dhemaji, Karbi Anglong, Halflong, Lilabari, Tezpur, Manas and the famous river island of Majuli.
Meghalaya police on Tuesday rescued a businessman a few days after suspected militants of Garo National Liberation Army kidnapped him at gunpoint.
He was rescued hours after Meghalaya police launched an operation to launch Dinesh Sharma, an owner of a stone crusher plant at Umtyrnga in Ri-bhoi district. He was abducted last week and the militant group had demanded a ransom of Rs 1.3 crore from his family.
A police team also arrested six militants from their base in a jungle in Pilangkata area of the district. GNLA area commander' Hiderson Sangma, who was behind the abduction, managed to flee the area ahead of the operation. The arrested militants were produced in a local court at the...
The heavy security presence in Guwahati seems to have failed to halt the repeated incidents of murder and kidnapping in Guwahati.
Suspected ULFA militants have kidnapped at doctor from the city at gun point on Tuesday. The incident took place at 9 in the evening when three unidentified armed miscreants took away doctor MC Agarwalla from his chamber at Fancybazar based Dhanuka Complex.
Top ranked police and civil officials have rushed to the spot and search operation is going on. Police officials tracing the development are clueless so far.
Two persons dead and two others sustained serious injury when they were hit by shells used during firing practice by army personnel in Baksa district on Tuesday.
The accidental shoot out took pace when four local residents were collecting firewood near the Sukanjali firing range. The shells used by the army personnel during practice session hit them killing two persons on the spot and injuring the others.
The deceased were identified as Thomas Murmu and Kamal Basumatary. The injured have been shifted to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital in Guwahati.
Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti general secretary Akhil Gogoi was released hours after police detained him on Tuesday along with 500 others for staging a dharna at Jorhat Medical College here.
Gogoi, who was released after a few hours, had staged the dharna outside the college and blocked its main gate in protest against alleged anomalies in some ongoing construction work on the campus.
The Assam Government won’t allow Meghalaya to proceed with the claim over Koinadhara. Talking to reporters at the Assam Assembly House premises on Tuesday, the forest minister said that Dispur has constitutional measures to counter Meghalaya. He said that Assam does not want even an inch of land from Meghalaya and that it won’t allow anybody to claim any plot.
Once again Assam-Meghalaya border dispute seems to have hit media headlines. The flashpoint this point is Koinadhara where Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has been residing at a Guest House.
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This was decided at a peace meeting between officials of both states and students organisations held at the estate, which is located in the Assam-Nagaland border of Jorhat district. The relief surfaced a day after ATTSA formally withdrew the blockade against Nagaland.
Assam and Nagaland on Tuesday decided to maintain status quo in the area and restrain any encroachment by people from one state into another's territory.
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