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A 5.1 magnitude earthquake jolted the Guwahati city along with neighboring areas of Assam and Northeast at around 6.17 pm this evening. As per the Indian Meteorological Department, the epicenter was located 86 km West of Guwahati. So far no casualties were reported during the incident.
Assam has the highest dropout rate among Primary & Secondary schools, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. He was responding to a query posed by BJP MP from Maharashtra Amar Shankar Sable. Dropout rates in other northeastern states continue to be quite high due to various reasons, such as poverty, health and other economic reasons, Pokhriyal said. However most of the states have been able to bring down the numbers to a single digit, he added. In Assam, during 2017-2018, dropout rate in primary classes stood at 10.1 percent and for secondary classes, it was 33.7 percent. Arunachal Pradesh registered dropout rates at 8.1 percent and 32 percent for primary and secondary category respectively.
Today at around 2.30 am on the basis of a secret information regarding poaching activities at Kaziranga National Park an operation was launched by Nagaon Police in the area of Harmoti under Jakhalabandha Police Station and recovered weapons and ammunition from a person called Pradip Mura who possessed weapons to carry out poaching in the Kaziranga National Park.
Some 200 Indian crew members and passengers stuck in a luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess in Japan due to coronavirus outbreak have urged Indian authorities to evacuate them. In one of his social media posts, the 30-year-old is seen appealing to authorities seeking their intervention. Reports claim that out of 3,700 members in the ship 61 had tested positive and 41 had contracted the virus. Dr. S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India said that the authorities are closelt monitoring the situation. Through a tweet. the Cruise company announced that “The Japanese Ministry of Health has confirmed the #DiamondPrincess) quarantine end date will be February 19, unless there are any other unforeseen developments.”
War of words ensued between AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal and BJP’s Smriti Irani after Kejriwal posted a tweet which Irani deemed anti-women. In a tweet Kejriwal had urged women to go out and vote. The last sentence of the tweet read, “ Please do discuss with men whom it would be better to vote for.” Irani retorted by tweeted, “Do you not consider women capable enough to decide for themselves who to vote for?” Kejriwal did not let it go, so he tweeted, “ Smriti ji, the women of Delhi have decided who to vote for. And this time in Delhi, women have decided on behalf of their family. After all they have to take care of their homes.”
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leadership is alarmed at the rapid disillusionment of the tribal supporters of the Sangh Parivar in recent times and has asked its cadre to take early remedial steps in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The RSS leadership asked its workers to spread out among targeted groups and show results. The top leadership of the Parivar took stock of its shrinking base in the two key states where it ruled for 15 years.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations warned of** threatening locust activity along **both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border. Already swarm of locusts have caused tremendous havoc in regions of Rajasthan and Gujarat. The Pakistan government has declared a national emergency to eliminate the attacking swarms of desert locust in Punjab after wiping it out in Sindh, the media reported on Saturday.