The state has said excess rainfall is to blame but experts and activists on the ground say rampant mining and construction has destroyed the landscape.
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GUWAHATI: The Assam Real Estate and Infrastructure Developers Association (AREIDA) had informed that the combination of shallow depth, short distance from the epicentre and high magnitude of Wednesday s quake has generated highly destructive seismic forces on the buildings in the State. The impact of the earthquake was definitely in the heavy and devastating category. We have extensively surveyed the earthquake damage and find that these are primarily non-structural damage like wall cracks and the load-bearing RCC frame has performed well in all the buildings inspected. Wall cracks and other non-structural damage have been found which only prove that the RCC frame has performed on expected lines with sufficient ductility to shake without failure, said AREIDA president P.K. Sharma in a statement here.
CoWIN crash hits vaccination registration for 18+
Registration for the third phase of Covid vaccination starting May 1 could not take off on time on Wednesday
| 29 April 2021 2:57 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: Registration for the third phase of Covid vaccination starting May 1 could not take off on time on Wednesday, as the server of the government s dedicated vaccination website CoWIN crashed soon after the registration process got underway.
In the third phase of vaccination drive, everyone above the age of 18 will be eligible to get inoculated against Covid-19.
The government had announced that registration for the 18 plus population would begin on http://cowin.gov.in, Aarogya Setu App and UMANG App at 4 pm on April 28 and appointments at State government centres and private centres will depend on how many vaccination centres are ready on May 1 for this category.
Citing own robust system, India turns down UN supply-chain help
India has turned down the UN’s offer of assistance from its integrated supply chain saying that it has its own “robust” system to manage the logistics of getting material for the dealing with the COVID-19 surge, according to a UN spokesperson.
| 29 April 2021 2:46 AM GMT
UNITED NATIONS: India has turned down the UN s offer of assistance from its integrated supply chain saying that it has its own robust system to manage the logistics of getting material for the dealing with the COVID-19 surge, according to a UN spokesperson. We offered the assistance of our integrated supply chain if it was required. We ve been told at this point that it s not needed because India has a reasonably robust system to deal with this. But our offer stands, and we re willing to help in whatever way we can, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Tuesday.
Fraudster arrested by Bhangagarh Police for duping a woman on pretext of marriage
The Bhangagarh Police on Tuesday night arrested a fraudster for duping a woman on the pretext of marriage.
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GUWAHATI: The Bhangagarh Police on Tuesday night arrested a fraudster for duping a woman on the pretext of marriage. The accused, Jitu Roy alias Dharmeswar Roy (38) is a resident of Baihata Chariali and he was arrested after a case was lodged by the victim woman, who is a resident of Sixmile here. According to a police source, Roy duped the victim woman s mother to the tune of Rs 4 lakh. He promised the victim that he will marry her however, he hid that he is already married. The police source stated that earlier, Roy was lodged in jail four times in connection to different cases. The source added that Roy was jailed for collecting money from commercial vehicles by impersonating a high-level