A youth was killed and 13 injured in two separate road mishaps in Guwahati on Thursday. ources said one Uttam Sarkar was killed when an electric transformer fell on him after a mini truck rammed into the equipment near Kamakhya temple. n another incident, 13 people were injured when two city buses collided at Adabari in the city. They are stated to be out of danger. Eight undertrials, including two NSCN (I-M) rebels, escaped from a police lock-up in Itanagar after breaking open the ventilator on Wednesday evening. The undertrials escaped when it was raining heavily, the police said.hey added that the rest six were dreaded criminals. An alert has been sounded to re-arrest them. Bankers have suggested enhancement of the region’s poor credit deposit ratio by forming self-help groups and linking them with banks. Speaking at a state-level meet of bankers conducted by the Nabard in Itanagar on Thursday, SBI general manager Harish Gurbux said this was a viable alternative to increase the credit ratio in the region.The Assam government on Thursday alerted superintendents of police in all districts on possible Ulfa strikes on vital installations even as the army continued combing operations in the Lakhipathar forest area of Tinsukia district. Police on Thursday arrested homeguards Sagar Das and Jawaharlal Hajong who were guarding the strongroom in the Karbi Anglong deputy commissioner’s office complex in Diphu when miscreants burgled it onWednesday. The Mizo Zirlai Pawl, the apex students’ federation in the state, in an executive meeting held at Aizawl on Wednesday, resolved to “drive all Chakma foreigners” out of the state before the Assembly elections.A two-day orientation programme for Nagaland legislators started at Kohima on Thursday. On the occasion of International Day against Drugs Abuse, the Mizoram excise department on Thursday burnt seized drugs worth Rs 30 lakh.
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To classical vocalist, Prabal Sarma, for his performance at the International Music Conference in Mauritius recently on the occasion of World Music Day
