2020 was a year of raging pandemic, gas spill, floods, massive protests for Assam
The Assam government adopted the policy of Ruthless Quarantine with A Human Heart as nearly 30 lakh people underwent both institutional and home isolation.
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Villagers on a banana raft move to a safer place from the flooded area of Goalbil in Baksa district of Assam. (Photo | PTI) By PTI
GUWAHATI: Assam had little luck escaping the ravages of COVID-19 in a year filled with myriad developments for the northeastern state from aggressive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and birth of new political parties to a major industrial disaster.
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2020: A Year Of Raging Pandemic, Gas Spill, Floods, Massive Protests For Assam
Assam had little luck escaping the ravages of COVID-19 in a year filled with myriad developments for the northeastern state from aggressive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and birth of new political parties to a major industrial disaster.
Assam had little luck escaping the ravages of COVID-19 in a year filled with myriad developments for the northeastern state from aggressive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and birth of new political parties to a major industrial disaster.
Assam s tryst with the killer virus happened on March 31, when a returnee from outside the state tested positive for COVID-19 in Silchar, and since then over 1,040 people have died from the contagion and more than 2,16,000 afflicted.
64 members of 4 militant groups surrender before Assam CM
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December 21, 2020 19:46 IST
Eighteen militants of the ULFA, 32 of the United People s Revolutionary Front, 13 of the Dimasa National Liberation Army and one of the People s Democratic Front of Bodoland surrendered
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Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, third left, looks at the arms and ammunition laid down by cadres of different banned rebel outfits in Gauhati, India, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020.
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Eighteen militants of the ULFA, 32 of the United People s Revolutionary Front, 13 of the Dimasa National Liberation Army and one of the People s Democratic Front of Bodoland surrendered Sixty-four members of four militant outfits surrendered with arms and ammunition before Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal here on Monday, officials said.