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Singer Angarag Mahanta had sustained minor injury when some unidentified miscreants targeted him with stone in Dhemaji on Wednesday.The incident took place when miscreants pelted stones at him as he was performing at a stage in a Bihu function in Gogamukh in the midnight.Eyewitnesses told Assam Times all the audiences were enjoying when the youth heartthrob was performing bihu and modern songs one after another. But suddenly somebody from the side of the audience pelted a piece of stone at him which fell on his head.Then the singer halted and stopped the programmme. The organizers, however, told Assam Times that the injury was minor.Meanwhile, the incident of attack on...
Forest guards in Kaziranga National Park had a heavy exchange of firing with poachers hours after a female rhino was killed on Wednesday.The encounter took place near the Rangolu forest in Burhapahar range in the morning hours after forest guards spotted the hornless rhino carcass atop the Kukurakata Hill.The heavy gunbattle lasted for nearly 2 hours. But there is no report of any casualty as the poachers were believed to fled from the spot. With this, poachers have killed 16 rhinos in the world heritage site during this last four months.
Army, police and CRPF claimed to have seized a huge grenade and two pistols from Jingia village in Bihali hours after three NDFB-S militants were killed in encounter on Wednesday.Identified as Asatom Boro, Rajmai Mushahary and Alshis Basumatary, the trio died on the spot during the encounter in the insurgency infested Sonitpur district.
Security forces seem to have intensified counter offensive against NDFB-S in Sonitpur district where the Bodo insurgent outfit has been unleashing terror in the form of extortion, kidnapping and killing.Sonitpur police on Wednesday claimed to have killed the dreaded NDFB-S militants in the insurgency infested district.The encounter took place from midnight during a combing operation in the Naomara area where the militants were believed to have died on the spot. The heavy exchange of firing lasted for nearly 5 hours till the mornning.
After a brief halt, poachers have struck again in Kaziranga where a full grown rhino was killed on Wednesday.The incident took place at Borghop in Burhapahar range of the national park in the wee hours.The carcass was recovered in the morning after the poachers had taken way the horn. With this, poachers have killed 16 rhinos in the world heritage site during this last four months.
A hawker in Guwahati lost his life after he was ran over by a speeding bus in the city on Wednesday.The tragic incident took place at Christianbasti area when a Tezpur bound passenger bus rammed into the bicycle born hawker where he died on the spot. He was identified as Ajit Medhi of Hengrabari area in the city.Bhangagarh police have arrested the driver and his assistant in this connection.Eyewitnesses told Assam Times that the driver and his assistant took 5 minutes to halt the bus after the hawker was crushed under it.
A lower court in Silchar has remanded Jakie Zakir to 14 days judicial custody a day after the husband of Borkhola MLA was arrested on charge of domestic violence.Zakir, who married Nath last year was produced before the Silchar Chief Judicial Magistrate on Tuesday evening where he was sent to jail.He was arrested on Monday after his MLA wife lodged a complaint of physical and mental torture on her for the last couple of months.
Akhil Gogoi on Tuesday got yet another relief when a lower court in Guwahati granted him interim bail on a fresh case registered against him in Panbazar police station.Hearing the petition for anticipatory bail moved by the KMSS president, the Kamrup district and sessions court on Tuesday granted him anticipatory bail for 12 days.Panbazar DSP Ponjit Duarah registered the case against Gogoi charging him with disrupting their duties recently in Panbazar area.
In yet another huge achievement, police have captured a notorious ganja smuggler from Guwahati on Monday.Identified as Lalon Shah, he was arrested during a raid at his residence in Beltola on Monday night. Acting on a tip off, a CID team on Monday night conducted a raid at a building he recently got built in Beltola and managed to arrest the smuggler.The CID sleuths further have seized a huge quantity of ganji weighing 400 kg ganja from his residence. The entire racket is believed to have surfaced during marathon police interrogation.
One after another incidents of fire seem to have rocked Guwahati during the last couple of days. Properties worth lakhs of rupees were ravaged when the college of veterinary science in Guwhati caught fire on Monday.The fire which is believed to have originated from the electric short circuit broke out in the microbiology department of the college at 10 at night.Five fire tenders took it three hours to bring the situation under control. There is no report of any casualty. The incident took place 24 hours after a heritage building owned by former President of India Fakaruddin Ali Ahmed was gutted in fire in Fancy Bazar area.
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