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ASSAM Assam government plan to fill up 15,000 cop vacancies ushers in hope The state cabinet’s recent decision to begin the process of recruitment for 15,000 vacancies in the police department from September as part of the government’s promise to appoint 1 lakh youths in government service, has brought a ray of hope … Read more
ASSAM Assam ‘first state’ to set up rent authority Assam has promulgated a tenancy Act to establish a rent authority to regulate renting of premises, which will be market-driven and determined by a mutual agreement between tenants and landlords in order to protect the interests of both. Officials here said Assam is the first state in … Read more
ASSAM Guards of Kaziranga get Satellite Phones Kaziranga has become the first national park in the country to have been equipped with satellite phones. Kaziranga National Park is situated in the state of Assam. It is surrounded by the Brahmaputra in the north Karbi anglong in the south and river Diphu flows through … Read more
ASSAM The Assam government announced free power supply to new oxygen plants The Assam government announced free power supply to encourage setting up of new oxygen plants as well as revival of the closed ones to avert any shortage of the live-saving gas amid the coronavirus pandemic. Industry sources said the decisions will not only help … Read more
ASSAM Covid screening begins in 28,000 villages in Assam The Assam health department on Tuesday launched a drive to screen and test people in 28,000 villages across 33 districts for Covid-19 in a bid to isolate the maximum number of hidden positive cases. The Assam Community Surveillance Plan (ACSP), as the drive has been named, has been undertaken to … Read more
ASSAM Whistling village pins hope on Unesco tag Each person in the village of Kongthong, 65 km from Shillong in Meghalaya, has two names — one in words, the other as a whistled tune. For centuries, the village has nurtured the whistling code, Jingrwai Iawbei. Now, down to the last 700, the community is pinning its hopes on a long-promised Unesco heritage … Read more
ASSAM An institution that’s given Assam 7 of its 15 CMs When Himanta Biswa Sarma is sworn-in as Assam’s 15th CM, he will be the seventh ex-student of northeast’s premier education institute, Cotton University (formerly Cotton College) to occupy the post of chief minister of the state. Assam’s first premier in pre-Independence period, Saiyid Muhammad Saadulla, also studied at … Read more
ASSAM Assam declares black fungus as notifiable disease The Assam government has declared ‘black fungus’ as a notifiable disease, making it mandatory for all health facilities to report such cases to the health department through the district health authorities. Assam detected the first black fungus or mucormycosis infection in a Covid patient who died in a private hospital … Read more
ASSAM Delayed hospitalisation linked to high death toll in Assam Delayed hospitalization of Covid patients from some of the designated government Covid Care Centres (CCCs) is among the reasons for the high death toll of 70-80 people succumbing to the virus or Covid-related complications every day in Assam. This despite the Covid situation improving in the … Read more
ASSAM Assam’s BJP government plans bill to protect cows While addressing the newly-elected 15th Assam legislative assembly, governor Jagdish Mukhi said the state government was planning to introduce a bill on cow protection in the next assembly session to ban cattle transport outside the state. Mukhi also underlined the BJP-led government’s commitment to recover the lands of … Read more