Borgohain won the battle against Covid-19 a few days ago and was discharged from hospital last week
GUWAHATI: Sahitya Akademi awardee, journalist and noted intellectual Homen Borgohain, passed away at a city hospital on Wednesday morning. He was 88.
Borgohain won the battle against Covid-19 a few days ago and was discharged from hospital last week. He reportedly fell off his bed in the wee hours on Wednesday and was rushed to the hospital. The hospital authority said that he was brought to the emergency department at 6.15 am following a cardiac arrest. “A team of cardiologists, intensivists and neurologists tried to revive him for almost 38 minutes but he failed to respond to all efforts. He was declared dead at 6.58 am,” a spokesperson of the hospital told TOI.
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale rocked Assam on Wednesday morning, damaging over 200 buildings and injuring 10 people, prompting the Centre to offer assistance to the state government already grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Though Assam has experienced two massive and devastating quakes on August 15, 1950, and on July 29, 1960, the tremors on Wednesday were among the most severe and scary since the seventies, according to most people The Telegraph spoke to.
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The epicentre of the quake that hit the state at 7.51am was located at Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur district with a focal depth of 17km. The epicentre is closer to the plate boundary and located around 80km northeast of Guwahati; 132km north of Shillong and 180km west of Jorhat.
Leading civil society organization of Assam, the Axom Nagarik Samaj (ANS), has urged the government to give people free and universal vaccination amid a raging country-wide second wave of Covid-19.
GUWAHATI: Leading civil society organization of Assam, the Axom Nagarik Samaj (ANS), has urged the government to give people free and universal vaccination amid a raging country-wide second wave of Covid-19.
The group led by former DGP Harekrishna Deka alleged that while all other countries in the world were spending huge amounts of money on vaccine manufacturing companies, the Government of India has done nothing. “The Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech were working on the vaccine. But till 19 April, 2021 the government of India didn’t advance any money to both the institutes. Again, when there is great dearth of vaccines in India, the Government of India has exported six core vaccines, the ANS said in a statement here on Monday.
Lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Sunday appealed to the public to stand up for what is right and against injustice to “reclaim our Republic” which is “experiencing” a crisis like never before under the BJP-led government.
Addressing a citizens’ convention organised by Axom Nagarik Samaj in Guwahati online, Bhushan said there was an “assault” on the economy, on dissent, on truth, on civility, on the judiciary, on Parliament, on the media and on government institutions, among others, under the ruling dispensation.
“We are seeing a full-blooded communal and fascist attack on every institution and every value we hold dear in a democracy and in our Constitution. We are experiencing a crisis of a kind which we have never seen before in the country since Independence. So the task is to somehow reclaim our Republic,” he said.