The Assam Assembly on Thursday passed the Guwahati Prevention of Defacement of Property Bill 2006 and the Assam Hill Land and Ecological Sites (Protection and Management) Bill, 2006. he first bill will prevent defacement of heritage sites, structures, compound walls and public places for preservation of natural beauty, cleanliness and environment in the city. The second one will preserve, regulate, acquire and maintain the hills and other ecological sites. Police recovered a young woman’s body from a roadside drain at Hatigaon on Thursday. Police said the woman, identified as Marjina,was homeless and mentally ill. They suspect she may have accidentally fallen into the drain last night and died. The first State of Environment report was released by chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday. The report, consisting of 15 chapters, has been brought out by the Assam Science Technology and Environment Council. Guwahati Municipal Corporation has started installing streetlights at the Tarun Nagar area following protests by the residents of the locality. Living Planet, a wall magazine for zoologists, was recently unveiled at the department of zoology of Arya Vidyapeeth College. A children’s library, named the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Library, will be inaugurated at Rajgarh in January. Apakshya, a city-based NGO working in the field of neem plantation, has asked the government to constitute a Neem Board by March 31, 2007. The All Guwahati Students’ Union has condemned the incident of the police lathicharge on physically challenged persons on Tuesday and demanded an inquiry into the incident. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi will inaugurate a new Congress Bhawan at Manabendra Sarma complex in Dispur on Friday.
Friday, 18 July 2025