GUWAHATI: The wait is over in Assam. The people in the north eastern state have started celebrating Rongali Bihu from Saturday to mark the advent of spring across the state.
The much vaunted week long occasion started with Goru Bihu when the folks took away the cow to bath in the nearby river and water bodies with a slew of formalities.
Reporters of Garu Bihu celebration are pouring in from Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Namrup, Sivasagar, Jorhat, GOLAGHAT, Nagaon, Tezpur, Biswanath, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Guwahati, Goalpara, Barpeta, BTAD district, Mankachar and Dhubri.
Many organzations have been organizations cow fashion show along with traditional games to mark the occasion.
Bihu functions are lined up across the state from Saturday while in many places the festival had ceremonial start on Friday with cultural procession.
AJYCP began the celebration of the annual spring festival on Friday with a slew of programmes in Namrup on Friday with a crowd pulling procession in the entire area.
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Namrup: Police arrested three drug peddlers with 6 grams of heroin on Sunday night.
The arrested trio were identified as Rituparna Gogoi (28) of Gauriabam, Bibek Singh (33) of BVFCL guest house and Ajit Handique (28) of Tengakhat.
A case was registered at Namrup Police Station under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
The trio were sent to District Jail.
Three reporters, namely Bitu Boruah, Hiren Gogoi, and Samiron Boruah, who reports for different print and electronic publications have been arrested by police for extorting money from trucks. The trio was arrested based on an email complaint received by Dibrugarh Deputy Commissioner. According to the complaint, the trio has been demanding money from trucks in the name of Deputy Commissioner, for some time. An FIR was registered at Namrup against the trio with case No 63/20 u/s 120B/342/353/387/419/468/34 IPC.
The same trio was also booked in another case of reporting a rape case revealing the identity of the minor victim.
NAMRUP: A major blast rocked two ammonia plants of Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Limited (BVFCL) at the Namrup Fertilizer Complex located in Namrup on Monday. As per initial reports, the blast occurred inside a synthesis gas compressor main outlet line which is connecting to reactor of the preheater furnance located at two ammonia plants at 3.00 am . Machines which were placed near the gas pipe were completely destroyed.
The sound of the blast heard at a radius of more than 30 kilometres. No casualties have been reported so far.
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More than 40 people donated blood.
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