A student en route to the school died while his mother suffered severe injuries when a tree got uprooted due to a storm and fell on their autorickshaw on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Shubhankar Barman, a Class 1 student of Shishu .
Two Bongaigaon police personal injured
Bongaigaon police have started their operation against the illegal beetle nut trade.
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BONGAIGAON: Bongaigaon police have started their operation against the illegal beetle nut trade. Yesterday Bongaigaon Police apprehended one person Md. Abdul Hannan Ali alias Bablu (37), S/O Farid Ali of Aadhar xatra village Golaghat and was forwarded to Judicial Custody. He was arrested under case no 460/21 U/S 120B/413/420/468/471 IPC. Talking to the media, SP Swapnaneel Deka said that later the person was brought on remand for interrogation. During the interrogation, it was learnt that the accused knew some local place & persons engaged in illegal business of betel nut. A team led by OC Bongaigaon PS & IO SI (UB) Krishanu Pathak took the accused person for identification of place and persons. The accused person was taken for identification of one Sapan Mondal & the godown used for illegal business at Chowraguri. After visit of Swapan M
Fancy Bazaar wears a deserted look during the curfew period in Guwahati on Thursday
GUWAHATI: The Assam health department feels the state may witness the peak of the second wave towards May-end as the number of new cases continues to remain on the higher side.
On Thursday, 75 Covid-related deaths were reported, taking the number of casualties to 304 in the last four days. Though the number of daily cases has marginally dropped to 5,468 from 5,657 cases the previous day, the positivity rate has gone up from 8.85% to 9.18%. The recovery rate stood almost static at 85.59%.
Though chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had insisted on carrying out about 1 lakh Covid tests daily, the number declined to 59,594 on Thurdsay against 63,956 tests done across the state on Wednesday.
GUWAHATI: The Assam health department feels the state may witness the peak of the second wave towards May-end as the number of new cases continues to remain on the higher side.
On Thursday, 75 Covid-related deaths were reported, taking the number of casualties to 304 in the last four days. Though the number of daily cases has marginally dropped to 5,468 from 5,657 cases the previous day, the positivity rate has gone up from 8.85% to 9.18%. The recovery rate stood almost static at 85.59%.
Though chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had insisted on carrying out about 1 lakh Covid tests daily, the number declined to 59,594 on Thurdsay against 63,956 tests done across the state on Wednesday.