Новости за 01.03.2021

Gogoi, booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) by NIA, is undergoing treatment at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital for long but sources privy to the meeting said his candidature for the prestigious Sivasagar seat in upper Assam is final.

It has been almost two months since cinema halls re-opened in the state post the Covid-19 lockdown, but operators are still waiting for higher footfall.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik and Odisha legislative assembly speaker SN Patro were among several elderly people who took the Covid vaccine on first day inoculation of third phase when people above 60 years age and those above 45 years with comorbidities started getting the shots.

Hagrama Mohilary-led Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), which saved the BJP-led government in Assam in 2019 after AGP snapped ties with the saffron coalition over differences on Citizenship Amendment Act, has vowed to play the kingmaker in state politics once again.

Citizens of the state aged over 60, or those above 45 having co-morbidities, will start receiving Covid vaccines at seven government medical colleges in Assam, along with six private hospitals in Guwahati, on Monday.

The wife of a corporator and their two minor children were set ablaze allegedly by husband of a lady constable on late Sunday night.

The Orissa high court is scheduled to hear on Monday a petition that was filed by a lawyer in 2002 regarding the CBI’s alleged failure to arrest the main accused in the 1999 Baranga gang rape case and the agency’s reluctance to probe the political conspiracy angle.

School and mass education minister Samir Ranjan Dash has asked his department to look into the premature retirement of 50-year-old visually challenged teacher Tapeswari Panda, who lost vision in both eyes following a brain surgery in 2017.

As the temperature continues to soar pushing up the humidity level as well, people are finding it difficult to keep the mask on.