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.
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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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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked Assam Governor Syed Sibtey
Razi to quit immediately. But the later is not ready before October.
According to information, it came up after the CBI raids alleged that
Razi's aides misused Governor House to swing the deals.
Former Jharkhand Governor's staff misused the Jharkhand Raj Bhavan
under Razi's watch for allegedly making money in postings and
transfers.
Assam Chief Minister Taerun Gogoi has also told the party high command
that he can't work with Sibtey Razi.
On August 11, the Prime Minister asked Razi to quit the office on
health grounds but Razi insisted on time until October when his
five-year term comes to an end.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh would step up to nab the killers of
Assam journalist
Kamala Saikia, who was murdered by the separatist militants 18 years
ago. This was disclosed by Dr Singh as he was listening to the Indian
Editors' Guild officials in Delhi on Friday.
Editors Guild of India president Rajdeep Sardesai led the delegation
who apprised Dr Singh of the killig of journalists in Assam.
The prime minister promised to take up the case with Assam chief
minister Tarun Gogoi
once again. The Priem Minister would meet a delegation from Journalist Kamala
Saikia Memorial Trust during his next visit to Guwahati.
The Centre is quite unhappy with the law and order in Assam along with Manipur and Nagaland. Addressing the Chief Ministers’ Sumit in New Delhi on Monday, prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh and home minister P Chidambaram said the things have remained unchanged in these three north eastern states.
The Prime Minister said funds for border development have remained unutilized and that North Cachar hills anf BTAD areas are still on the boil.
In his speech Chidambaram cleared that the Centre would talk to the insurgent outfits only if they surrender. The home minister also said the ceasefire ground laws would be strictly followed in the north eastern states.
Two persons were killed, several others have been injured when suspected Naga miscreants attacked a tiny Dimasa hamlet in North Cachar hills district on Monday.
The incident took place in the morning as a group of miscreants stormed into a Dimasa village Bankah and set on fire the houses where as many as 40 houses were gutted in fire. A few of these miscreants started indiscriminate firing on the villagers who were running out of their houses where two persons were killed and several others injured.
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initiative on the process to nab the killers of Assam based journalist
Kamala Saikia, who was murdered by the separatist militants 18 years
ago. Dr Singh was briefed about the professional hazard of media
persons in Assam-where more than 20 editor-journalists had fallen prey
to various anti-social elements in the last two decades-by the Editors
Guild of India president Rajdeep Sardesai during a meeting on August
14 in PMO.
Interacting with the editor’s guild president, the prime minister
assured to raise the matter with the Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi
once again. Dr Singh, who represents Assam in Rajya...
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The pateint's residential address was given as Beltola in Guwahati. The patient had been kept in the isolation ward of the MMCH. This is the first of the 11 suspected cases of swine flu to test positive while the results of three others are awaited.
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He said the government is considering a rural development council to boost the rural economy. Gogoi expressed grave concern over the uneasy law and order situation in the two hills district and said these would be firmly dealt withy. He further said the hills...
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