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Gauhati HC acquits man held guilty of murder by lower court in 2017

GUWAHATI: Gauhati High Court has acquitted a man, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower court in 2017 in a murder case that took place in Assam’s Jorhat in 2014 after the evidence was found inconclusive.

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Assam: Cop in police net for accepting bribe

GUWAHATI: A police officer was on Sunday arrested by the sleuths of the anti-corruption and vigilance directorate in Assam’s Goalpara district for allegedly accepting a bribe.

The Times of India

Assam: Minors barred from Muharram rally

GUWAHATI: The Sonitpur district administration in Assam has banned the participation of minors below 18 years in Muharram processions. It has also prohibited the display of sharp-edged weapons during the processions.

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Guwahati: Man kills wife, dumps body in drain, arrested

GUWAHATI: A 30-year-old man was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly murdering his wife in Guwahati. The arrest took place after the body that was packed in a sack was recovered from a drain on August 2.

The Times of India

Assam: 3 more Japanese Encephalitis deaths, 12 fresh cases logged

GUWAHATI: Three more persons succumbed to Japanese Encephalitis (JE), while 12 fresh cases were reported in Assam on Saturday, according to a release issued by the National Health Mission. The death toll due to JE has increased to 63 in the state since July one.

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Assam zoo awaits court nod to showcase exotic species

GUWAHATI: Over two dozen rescued exotic wildlife species, smuggled from Australia, South America and Malaysia through wet markets of Southeast Asia, may become a big attraction for visitors at Assam state zoo here after legal clearance.

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Gauhati HC denies bail to youth held for supporting Ulfa

GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court recently denied bail to a 24-year-old UAPA accused, who allegedly propagated ULFA (I) ideology on Facebook.

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Assam: Bhattadev University registrar Guruprasad Khataniar held for seeking bribe

GUWAHATI: The registrar of Bhattadev University, Guruprasad Khataniar, was arrested by the vigilance and anti-corruption (VAC) branch of state police in Guwahati on Saturday on charges of demanding a bribe.

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Assam: Ulfa-I and NSCN (K-YA) give Independence Day boycott call

GUWAHATI: After a restraining itself last year, Ulfa (I) on Saturday issued a boycott call of Independence Day and also called for a bandh on the day in a joint statement with NSCN (K-YA). Amid CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's ongoing efforts to bring Ulfa (I) to the discussion table and…

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Jharkhand MLAs' cash seizure | West Bengal CID teams ‘detained’ in Delhi, Guwahati

Three Congress MLAs from Jharkhand — Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap and Naman Bixal Kongari — were arrested by West Bengal Police after over ₹49 lakh in cash was seized from a car in which they were travelling.

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Assam: Drugs worth Rs 15 crore seized in Karbi Anglong, 3 peddlers held

GUWAHATI: A huge consignment of heroin marked as “100% pure” in Chinese, morphine, crystal meth and syabu worth about Rs 15 crore was seized from a Sikkim registered vehicle in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday morning. The consignment was headed for Siliguri in West Bengal, police said.

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Take steps to curb road accidents, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma tells deputy commissioners

Guwahati: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday directed the deputy commissioners of the districts, which have recorded over 100 fatalities in road accidents in the last one year, to take urgent steps to cut down such road mishaps.

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Assam: 4 fake real estate firm staff held for duping people of Rs 1.4 crore

GUWAHATI: The Bureau of Investigation Economic Offences (BIEO) on Tuesday arrested four employees of a fake real estate company for allegedly duping several people of Rs 1.4 crore by falsely promising them of offering good profits through attractive schemes. Two other accused are on the run.

The Times of India

Students clash with police at Gauhati University over ‘unjust’ evaluation

GUWAHATI: The police scuffled with protesting students on the Gauhati University (GU) campus on Tuesday as hundreds of students thronged the varsity premises here, accusing the GU authority of unjust evaluation of undergraduate (UG) final-year students in their semester-end examination.

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Medical textbooks for undergrads in Assamese language soon

GUWAHATI: The Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences (SSUHS), to which medical colleges of Assam are affiliated, said it has completed the compilation of the English to Assamese medical dictionary-cum-lexicon and will soon print the textbooks for medical education at the undergraduate level in Assamese language.

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North East exported goods worth Rs 1,800 crore in last fiscal, Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar

GUWAHATI: From tea, cereals, dairy products, rice, ayush and herbal products, sesame seeds, spices to marine products, northeast has exported agricultural and allied products worth over Rs 1,800 crore in the last fiscal to countries far and wide — from the US, China, Germany, Australia, Russia to Burkina Faso.

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Pull of Sattriya draws Bangladesh woman to Assam for learning dance form

GUWAHATI: Drawn by the pull of Sattriya, a girl from Bangladesh came all the way to Assam to learn the dance form introduced by great Vaishnava saint Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva in the 15th century.

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New Assam policy to allow each tribal family to own up to 50 bighas of land

GUWAHATI: Assam will roll out a tribal land policy to allow each tribal family of the state to hold up to 50 bighas of land while the upper ceiling of 8 bighas under Assam Land Policy, 2019, will continue for the rest of the population.

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IndiGo flight cancelled after aircraft skids off runway at Assam airport

GUWAHATI: An IndiGo flight from Assam's Jorhat to Kolkata on Thursday was cancelled apparently after the aircraft skidded off the runway during take-off and a pair of its wheels got stuck in the muddy outfield.

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Seven out of 19 Assam labourers missing in Arunachal Pradesh rescued

GUWAHATI: After 18 days, seven out of the 19 labourers from Assam who went missing from a road project site of Border Roads Organisation project in Kurung Kumey district of Arunachal Pradesh were rescued on Saturday.

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20 teams, including ISL sides to play in this year's Durand Cup

GUWAHATI: Twenty teams from across the country, including 11 Indian Super League sides, will vie for top honours this year in Asia's oldest football tournament, the Durand Cup which begins at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on August 16.

The Hindu

GoFirst flight suffers windshield crack mid-air

Third incident in two days

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Assam: Cough syrup bottles worth Rs 1 crore seized, 2 held

GUWAHATI: The Guwahati city police busted an interstate drugs network and seized a consignment containing 20,000 cough syrup bottles worth over Rs 1 crore from a truck and arrested two persons, said police officials on Monday. The truck was intercepted in the Gorchuk area.

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Flood situation brightens in Assam; 90,000 still affected

GUWAHATI: The flood situation in Assam improved further as no major river was flowing above the danger mark on Sunday, though a little over 90,000 people continued to be affected due to the deluge, an official bulletin said.

The Times of India

Huge quantities of drugs seized, five arrested in Assam

GUWAHATI/DIPHU: Huge quantities of heroin and cannabis, worth over Rs four crore, were seized and five people arrested from Assam's Karimganj and Karbi Anglong districts, police said on Friday.

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