GUWAHATI: Eight people sustained serious injury when a devastating fire broke out a semi commercial area in the outskirt of Guwahati on Monday.
The incident took place in the wee hours at Bihapara in Goroimari when a house caught fire because of electric short circuit.
Within half an hours the fire spread and engulfed as many as ten shops since many LPG cylinders exploded under the impact of the huge inferno.
Local residents in large number came and brought the situation under control in the absence of firefighters.
The injured were initially rushed to the nearby hospital to be shifted to Guwahati for better treatment. The extent of damage has yet to be ascertained. But it is said to be over Rs 50 lakh. Police enquiry is going on.
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: The ruling CPM in Tripura has fielded Pallab Debverma in Charilam by polls slated for mid March. The party announced the name on Monday in the place of Ramendra Debverma who died of cardiac ailment on February 12 forcing the Election Commission to countermand the polling till mid March. The north eastern state has gone to the assembly polls in 59 constituencies on Sunday recording 89% turn out. Vote counting is slated for March 3 from 8 in the morning simultaneously with Meghalaya and Nagaland.
GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister's vigilance and anti corruption cell on Monday questioned Ranjit Dutta in connection with graft charges. The investigators came to Dutta in Dispur and questioned him on the confessional statements they extracted from the arrested irtigation official Kujendra Doley who was arrested last year for recovering a huge amount of cash from his office. His name was caught in the controversy after the investigators cash from Doley. In his confessional statement, Doley was understood to have named the minister forcing the authority to bring Dutta under the ambit of the investigation. Opposition party MLAs on last week demanded Dutta's interrogation to unearth...
ITANAGAR:An irate mob in Arunachal Pradesh lynched two people from Assam on Monday a week after they allegedly gangraped and killed a five year old girl. The sensational incident took place in Tezu in the morning where people in large number, basically from Namgo Mismi village, stormed into the Centre Point police station and dragged out of it the rape accused duo and beaten up before setting them on fire pouring petrol in full view of the police. According to allegation, the police caught the duo on Sunday who were believed to have admitted to the double crime. They gangraped the minor and murdered her before dumping the body inside a tea bush on February 12 to be recovered two days...
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: Fresh controversy erupts over Himanta Biswa Sarma inTripura a day after the north eastern state has gone to the assembly polls in 59 constituencies. The ruling CMP leaders claimed to have seen the Assam minister and BJP’s poll in charge moving openly even before the end of polling on Sunday. In a written complaint lodged before the Chief Election Officer in Agartala the ruling party Secretary Bijan Dhar said that Sarma was found at Agartala on the day of poll at 3.55 PM when the voting was not concluded in many of the constituencies.” The complaint further reads,”He has been seen in the 4-Barjala (SC) constituency roaming from BJP poling booths offices...
SHILLONG:Five people including a poll candidate in Meghalaya died in a powerful explosion in the poll bound north eastern state on Sunday. According to information, suspected GNLA rebels exploded the bomb at Samanda at 7.30 in the evening where NCP candidate from Williamnagar Jonathone N Sangma along with two security guards and three others died on the spot. Sangma, was believed to have received threat from the rebel outfit as he filed nomination papers. Even the rebel warned the voters' of dire consequences if Sangma was voted to power. The bomb exploded when Sangma was back to his home on a Scorpio after attending a poll rally.
Kokrajhar: Over 200 patients from different parts in BTAD areas claimed to have been benefitted as they attended a free medical camp in Kokrajhar on Sunday. Organized by Dr Malay’s Hospital Siliguri,West Bengal to provide medical facility and treatment among patients in the region thus, got good response. Patients,who are suffering from hypertension, high blood pressure, brain stroke patients and spinal patients checked up their health issues and took medical services from the doctors. Dr Malay Chakraborty,prominent neurologist from Siliguri offered his services to the patients.The camp has been aiming to create awareness on healthy health among citizens in the region,which are...
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: A CPM worker sustained serious injury when two group of political parties clashed with each other on Sunday when the north eastern state was going to the assembly polls in 59 constituencies. The clash broke out at Golaghati area in Dayaram para in the afternoon. According to allegations, a group of BJP workers suddenly sprang upon their CPM counterparts where he sustained serious injury. Identified as Pulin Bardhan, he was rushed to the hospital where he is battling with death.
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: Polling is over in Tripura. The fate of 292 candidates contesting for 59 out of 60 assembly seats are sealed in EVMs who would be opened for counting on March 3. The Election Commission is expected to announce the initial turn out in the evening while the real figure will be published by Monday since the EVMs have yet to reach the strong rooms.Many voters were seen waiting in queue till 4 in the afternoon to exercise their franchise suggesting a huge turn out in the assembly polling in 3 417 booths which started at 7 in the afternoon. Many poll candidates were seen visiting the booths amid tight security which was why, the entire exercise passed off by and large...
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: Polling is underway in Tripura on brisk note from 7 in the morning to decide on the fate of 59 legislators in the 60 member assembly on Sunday. According to state election authority, the polling is peaceful where 2,536,589 people are exercising their franchise at 3,714 booths from 7 in the morning. The voters in large number thronged the assigned booths much ahead of the time. Altogether 47,803 voters are exercising their franchise for the first time to ascertain the fate of 292 candidates including 23 women. A record 50,000 para-military and other state security personnel are in place to ensure free and fair polling across the state apart from deploying...
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: Amid a mammoth security arrangement voting is underway in Tripura to elect 59 legislators in the 60 member assembly across the north eastern state on Sunday. Altogether 25,36,589 voters are exercising their franchise at 3,417 polling booths to decide on the fate of 292 candidates from 7 in the morning.Voters in large number are waiting in a serpentine queue to vote in their assigned booths from early in the morning where BJP takes on the ruling Left Front.
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