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Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi and wife Prem Mukhi bid farewell to Assam on Saturday. The program was organised at Raj Bhavan. “It has been my honor to serve the beautiful state of Assam as Governor for more than five years. I am happy with the results of our joint efforts and believe that the prosperity and progress of the state will continue,” Mukhi said. According to sources, Mukhi will be replaced by Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly Gulab Chand Kataria, who is likely to be sworn in as the new governor of Assam on February 22. Mukhi was…

A massive fire broke out at Jorhat, Chow Bazaar, Assam, no casualty reported during the outbreak, Police informed. According to sources, 150 shops were destroyed and 25 fire tenders reached the spot and brought the situation under control. The fire is suspected to have started from an electrical short circuit in a shop, which quickly spread to the crowded market. Also the most destroyed shops were grocery and clothing shops, according to the report.

The world’s largest cruise, MV Ganga Vilas ship has reached Assam today, Friday. The cruise has been travelling to Assam after completing its journey from Bangladesh. According to the sources, the cruise has reached Dhubri along the India-Bangladesh border and will float towards Dibrugarh which is expected to reach by March 1. MV Ganga Vilas will travel for 13 days in Assam and halt at Dhubri, Jogighopa, Pandu (Guwahati), Kaziranga and Majuli before ending the journey at Dibrugarh. MV Vilas Cruise started from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on January 13.

District Commissioner's office, Kokrajhar has opened space for children to accompany their mothers during work hours. "Women employees with children raised issues related to childcare in a staff meeting, with no or minimal support at home. This gave rise to the idea of ​​a children's room in the office premises," said Varnali Deka, deputy commissioner of Kokrajhar. According to the sources, an old unused room was renovated into a colorful room for children there. The commissioner also said this room will be developed eventually more with playthings, books, new ideas according to children's mindset etc. Bodoland Territorial Region Chief Executive…

Evacuation operations are ongoing in three districts of Assam. The Government of Assam has successfully liberated hundreds of hectares of land in rural and forest reserve areas. Recently, the eviction drive allegedly witnessed clashes between protesters and police personnel. Security forces used batons to control protesters who threw stones at them. According to the sources, Digboi in upper Assam’s Tinsukia district, police forces carrying out the drive by Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) lathicharged on violators on railway land near Bogapani station when they threw stones to stop the eviction. The Himanta Biswa Sharma-led dispensation has been carrying out eviction drives…

To boost the tourism sector in the Northeast, Assam Helicopter services will start in some major cities of the state. According to sources, Pawan Hans Limited will start services between Dibrugarh-Jorhat-Tezpur-Guwahati-Tezpur-Jorhat-Dibrugarh three days a week. The helicopter service provider has entered into an agreement with the Assam Tourism Development Corporation to control this sector. Also according to some official sources, the service is to be extended to Arunachal Pradesh. “Pleased to sign MoU with Pawan Hans Ltd on behalf of ATDC for its chopper services started from today connecting 4 sectors in Assam under RCS UDAN. Initiative will certainly going…

Assam has set up temporary jails for the arrests in Child marriage. The arrest one will be kept in Goalpara foreigner’s detention centre which has been converted into temporary jail centre. According to the sources, two temporary jails have been set up for the accused against Child marriage; one is in Goalpara and another in Cachar district, Inspector General of Assam Police, Prashanta Kumar Bhuyan said. "We are using the Matia Transit Camp in Goalpara district and the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP) in Cachar district as temporary jails. Declared foreigners are staying in the Matia Transit…

A man named Abdul Basir Ahmed complained a file against a family for killing his niece to death. Three members of the same family were involved in killing the minors. According to the deceased, his niece was 16-year-old niece and 14-year-old nephew were killed on the intervening night of February, 1. Police have now arrested the accused three people. The family members have killed the minor due to long dispute family issues. They claimed that at first they killed one victim then another came to know about the incident so had to kill both of the minors. 

A video of a young kid was captured on social media being tortured badly with tide hands by three men from Krishnapur, Hailakandi, Assam. According to the sources, the victim tortured allegedly for involvement in a theft case, he broke into the house without permission. Later after being accused, he was tormented having his head tonsured, having someone else urinate on him, and having both of his hands bound with rope. Hailakandi Superintendent of Police has already taken the people who were involved in torturing the kid into custody. Assam Director General of Police GP Singh has directed the Superintendent…

Matter of alert for Assam as its rate of teenage pregnancy from child marriage is 16.8%. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expresses concern through his tweet on Monday. According to the sources, the total 620,867 total pregnancies reported in the year 2022, 104,264 were teenage mothers which ratio is 16.8%. Barpeta tops the list with 28.7%, followed by Dhubri and South Salmara (27.9%) and Goalpara (24.1%). Tinsukia registered the lowest rate of teenage pregnancy with 8.4%. The crackdown against Child marriage began on February 3, 2023, since then Assam Police have continuously registered cases from different districts of the…