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3 GRPF personnel suspended
Badarpur
General Railway Police Force complex in-charge G.K. Singh
and two constables, Moin Uddin and Pradip Gogoi, have been
suspended for harassing a couple, Aftab Uddin and Kulsum Begam,
at Badarpur junction on Monday night. Another policeman, sub-inspector
Dipak Saikia, who had snatched Rs 3,500 from the couple, is
absconding.
Sacrifice
Members of Nepal?s royal family have angered animal rights activists after they sacrificed an animal at the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati on Tuesday to usher in peace in the Himalayan kingdom. A 19-member team of the family, led by the royal priest, offered puja at the temple.
BTC Speaker
Reoreoa Narzihary and Singharam Basumatary were unanimously elected Speaker and deputy Speaker of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) at the BTC Assembly Hall in Kokrajhar on Tuesday.
Rights plea
The Asian Centre for Human Rights has sought the intervention of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights against the forcible eviction of tribals from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. A release issued by the centre said an estimated 65,000 Muslims are being settled in areas adjacent to Mizoram. This would raise the population of Chittagong Hill Tracts by 25 per cent, to 3,90,000.
Demonstration
The Manipur unit of the CPI staged a demonstration in Imphal on Tuesday against the hike in petrol and diesel prices.
Anniversary
The ninth death anniversary of Bir Silaghang Basumatary, the founder chairman of the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT), was observed with a daylong programme at Bongaigaon in Kokrajhar district on Tuesday. President of the Ex-BLT Welfare Society, Janamohan Mushahary, hoisted a black flag in the morning.
Cricket camp
Two Assam under-15 cricketers, Krishna Das of Barpeta and Bikram Chetri of North Lakhimpur, have been selected for a National Cricket Academy coaching camp. The camp will be held at Bangalore from August 20. Both Das and Chetri have outstanding records.
Thumbs Down
To the Food & Civil Supplies Department, Manipur, for failing to prevent the sale of adulterated petrol and diesel
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