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Kidnap protest
Tezpur, Jan. 4: Business establishments in Gohpur subdivision today downed shutters in protest against the kidnapping of businessman Anjan Kar, 30, yesterday. The business community gave a 72-hour deadline to police to rescue the trader and apprehend the culprits.
Demise
Jorhat: Dr Padum Gogoi, an eye specialist and elder brother of chief minister Tarun Gogoi, passed away at 11.50pm on Thursday. He was 86. Tarun Gogoi and his son Gaurav Gogoi, along with the chief minister’s other brother Dip Gogoi, who is the Koliabar MP, arrived at Jorhat on Friday and attended the cremation at 4pm.
Blockade
Golaghat: National Highway 39 was blocked for about five hours after a youth, Rajen Pujari Bhakta, 28, was killed by a vehicle at Pura Bangla under Numaligarh police station on Friday.
IEDs found
Tinsukia: Police recovered two IEDs from an Oil India Limited pipeline at Nagajan in the district on Friday. Both the explosives, planted by suspected Ulfa (Paresh Barua faction) militants within a distance of 600 metres, were defused.
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