Three villagers died and twenty others have been injured when security forces sprang upon a group of people who prevented the PowerGrid authority from erecting a wall in Biswanath chariali on Tuesday. The incident took place at Baghmari at 5.30 in the morning when local people came out to the street opposing the wall erected secretly on Monday. Security forces opened fire at the protesters where one died on the spot and two others died on the way to the hospital. Angry mob later burnt down 4 police vehicles. Top ranked police and civil officials have arrived in the spot to contain the situation.
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According to the villagers of Harangajao in Dima Hasao District, Assam, the Company (JKM Infra Ltd.) responsible for construction of the East-West Highway corridor stretch at Harangajao village have callously jeopardised the natural irrigation of the adjacent paddy fields by blocking the natural streams(which remain small during winter, but widen many more times during the rainy season, which the construction company could not anticipate) and diverting the water flow, thereby not only depriving water to the paddy fields, but also creating an impending situation of flood in the villages.In the coming monsoon season, the torrential rainfall would be diverted to the villages flooding the village lands, since the highway construction company has already blocked many small natural streams, which used to naturally minimise the heavy flow of water during heavy rainfall.The Dima Hasao district authorities (the Council and the Deputy Commissioner’s Office) must wake up to the impending ecological disaster and force the Construction company to review their ongoing construction planning & execution, which is currently jeopardising the local terrain due to blockage of natural streams.Only this can avert the impending flood and normalise the natural flow of water in the area.Once damage is done to the ecology, it is irreplaceable and economy of the area is destroyed!JKM Infra Ltd. is playing with the lives and livelihood of poor people in Harangajao…even the roads built by them are unlikely to remain intact, due to lack of proper soling (that is firming the foundation layer of the roads)!
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Streets worse a desert look as all shops and markets along with industrial unites have down shutters from 7 in the morning till 9 at night.
Vehicles are off from the roads under the impact of the call to fight the menace which has yet not reached the north eastern state.
People, mostly, are keeping themselves confined to their homes to disallow the dreaded virus to spread.
People in the rural areas are also equally keeping inside their houses while some...
DIBRUGARH: Amid statewide anxiety and fear the five year old girl from Jorhat tested negative at the regional laboratory in Lahowal on Saturday night. Earlier, JMCH on Saturday morning has referred her and parents for confirmation suspecting it an infection of COVID19 in view of her cough and fever. The family traveled to Bihar by train and backed to Jorhat a couple of days back.
Guwahati: A suspected COVID19 positive case triggers no less panic in the state on Saturday.
According to information, JMCH lab claimed to have found some positive notes of COVID19 virus in the body of a 5 year old girl who complained of fever and cough.
The patient along with her parents have wrapped up a visit to Bihar by train a couple of days back.
The sample along with the patient have been referred to RMCH in Lahowal in Dibrugarh on Saturday for final test.
The confirmation is expected by afternoon.
But a section of media in Guwahati along with social networking sites has already spread the story without any confirmation creating panic among the people.
March 20, New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged all those who have been told to stay in home quarantine to follow the instructions.
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However, the Education department felt that closure of schools may create learning gaps among school children and there is a possibility some of them may drop out. So in order to plug the...
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Bhubaneswar Kalita, BJP’s ally Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) nominee Biswajit Daimary and the Congress-All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) consensus candidate Ajit Kumar Bhuyan were declared elected as the deadline for withdrawal of nomination ended.
Earlier, nomination papers filed by Kalita, Daimary and Bhuyan were found valid in the scrutiny. Elections for the three RS seats were scheduled for 26 March.
Kalita...
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