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Good news for the bus commuters of Amingaon as the Kamrup Transport Department (R) has decided to connect it to Guwahati via city bus service. Meanwhile, Gautam Das, the DTO of Kamrup (Rural) stated that buses will also provide services till Baihata Chariali and North Guwahati- Doul Govinda Temple soon.
Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI) and the All India Bank Employees’ Association (AIBEA) have called for a three-day nationwide bank strike from March 11 to March 13. The strike has been called after the unions “talks with the Indian Banks Association” (IBA) over wage revision has failed.
Popular singer Zubeen Garg’s name has been proposed for upcoming Rajya Sabha Elections in Assam. According to reports, former Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi has proposed the name of the celebrity from the state. “I have no interest in politics but Rajya Sabha is different. Well-known faces are sent to Rajya Sabha from different states. Let me think about it. Right now, I can’t comment on this, let me reach Guwahati,” he said. Speaking to The Sentinel Digital, Zubeen Garg’s wife Garima Saikia Garg said, “I am not aware of the matter and I didn’t hear anything as such from my part.”
Forest Man of India Jadav Payeng will be awarded with Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award. The ceremony organized by My Home India will take place at 4.30 pm at the Constitution Club in New Delhi on February 29. He was also honoured with a Padma Shri a few years ago. He has made his own identity by planting and tendering trees on a sandbar of the Brahmaputra River and turned it into a forest over the years, Jadav Payeng is a much known and loved name in the state today.
GP Singh, Additional Director General of Police, Law, and Order, applauded the traffic personnel who fined a BJP MLA from Duliajan for Terash Gowalla violating traffic rules in Guwahati. Singh shared a photograph of two traffic staff from Chandmari Police Station who were on duty on February 25, 2020 when the incident occurred.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind’s Tripura wing has said new laws and exercises such as CAA, NRC and NPR are are “kala kanoon” which are against the secular foundation of India. During a media interaction at Gedu Miah in Agartala state Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind chief Mufti Tayebur Rahman said that information gathering exercise carried out by the BJP are all part of hidden agenda.
The terrorist organisation ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is using a picture of a Muslim man getting beaten up during violence in the capital of India to justify violence. A tweet from Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times Correspondent who extensively covers ISIS reads—“Unsurprisingly, the viral image of a Muslim man being beaten by a Hindu mob in Delhi has now been repurposed by ISIS, in a poster justifying retaliatory violence in “Wilayat al-Hind,” the Caliphate’s “Indian Province.”
Writer Javed Akhtar was heavily slammed by netizens for tweeting out his views on the arrest of AAP councillor Tahir Hussain. An FIR has been filed against Hussain after a complaint was filed by father of Ankit Sharma. Ankit who used to work for the Intelligence Bureau was killed by rioters and his body was recovered from a drain near his house. Akhtar had tweeted, “So many killed , so many injured, so many house burned, so many shops looted so many people turned destitutes but police has sealed only one house and looking for his owner. Incidentally his name is Tahir. Hats off to the consistency of the Delhi police .”
Amid coronavirus outbreak, India has suspended visas for arrivals from Japan, South Korea. The measure is temporary. Outside China, Korea has seen a huge rise in coronavirus cases. Thousands have been infected by the virus. Reports claim that 13 people have died so far.