Sivasagar Bandh Almost Peaceful
Normal life was affected in Sivasagar district bandh on Monday with the Assam Tea Tribes Students Association (ATTSA) calling an 12-hour Sivasagar Bandh from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. to protest killing of an innocent youth in Tingalibam Tea Estate by the army.The army has ordered a court of inquiry into the matter. During the bandh the roads wore deserted look with public and private vehicles off the roads. Traders kept their shutters down, while all business establishments, educational institutions, financial institutions remained closed and attendances in government offices were thin. The bandh passed off peacefully and there was no report any major untoward incident from anywhere in the district only 6 picketeers were arrested by police in Gelaki during the
bandh.
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Mr. Pranab Gogoi, Minister of Handloom, Textiles and Sericulture and Law, Govt. of Assam inaugurated the 30-bed Sivasagar town health centre on Sunday.
Mr. Pranab Gogoi, Minister of Handloom, Textiles and Sericulture and Law, Govt. of Assam inagurated the 30 beded Sivasagar town health centre on Sunday. The centre is also known as Sivasagar Civil Hospital (Wood Dispensry) earlier and this hospital is shifted to Joysagar a few years back. But today this is inagurated for the greater interest of the people of Sivasagar town as town health centre. The inaguration ceremony is attended by Deputy Commissioner, officials of health department and a large number of people of Sivasagar town.
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ONGC Assam Asset today give Partnership Benefits under Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives of Assam Asset to 20 Educational Institutions and Organisations of different oil field areas of the Sivasagar District. Mr Ashok Varma, ED-Asset Manager, Assam Asset gave away the benefits in presence of other senior officials and Mr Abdul Jalil, Inspector of Schools, Sivasagar in ONGC Officers' Club, ONGC Colony, Sivasagar.
Acting on a tip-off, SDPO of Sonari along with Army and CRPF personal recovered an IED of weight 1 kg above from Longpotia near Sonari in Sivasagar district around 7.30 pm today. The IED was placed under a railway bridge in Longpotia; no one has been arrested so far in this connection.
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