Goalpara, June 30: Three Ulfa cadres and nine Rabha Viper Army militants laid down arms at the Goalpara superintendent of police headquarters here today. Officials of the army’s Red Horns Division, Goalpara deputy commissioner Preetam Saikia and superintendent of police Syamal Prasad Saikia were present at the ceremony. The surrendered arms included seven pistols, five rifles, live ammunition rounds, hand grenades and explosives. Guwahati: Officials of Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited will sign bank documents related to financing of the company’s Rs 1,028 crore methanol project in Guwahati on Monday. Guwahati: Senior IAS officer, Prem Prasad Verma, (in UB Photos picture) on Sunday took charge as the new chief secretary of Assam. Verma, a 1978 batch IAS officer, took over from Naba Kumar Das. Guwahati: A meeting was held at Manas National Park on Saturday to review the measures put in place to improve security at the park which had witnessed killing of rhinos. Senior officials of the forest department and other stakeholders attended it. Guwahati: The NFR officials of Rangia division on Saturday conducted surprise ticket checks in six trains and detected 85 cases of ticketless travel and 15 cases of excess unbooked luggage. Guwahati: All Kamrup District Students’ Union, All Guwahati Sub-division Students’ Union and All North Guwahati Students’ Union on Sunday said that IIT Guwahati director Gautam Barua showed “anti-local attitude” by commenting against their demand to recruit local youths in the third and fourth grade jobs in the institute.
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