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Vol. II
Issue 64
Dibrugarh, Friday, September 16, 2016
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A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Sept 15
Control room set up in Guwahati to assuage the menace of worms in farms Guwahati, Sept 15: In a bid to assuage the farming community in the time of army worms menace Assam agriculture department has set up a control room in Guwahati. Officials said that the control room would help the farmers control the attack of army worms in the crops lands. A joint director would run the control room where the farmers can contact the authority with mobile number 9854338572 and 94355 43404. According to a government statement, armyworms are caterpillars that crops belonging to rice (particularly Gramineae). There are three armyworm species which are the rice swarming caterpillar, common cutworm, and the rice ear-cutting caterpillar. A single armyworm egg mass contains hundreds of eggs and each female lays 800-1000 eggs during its lifetime of about one week. The name armyworm is applied to those species that migrate in masse to neighbouring fields after severely defoliating a crop. Armyworm feeds on paddy leaves and young seedlings at the plant's base. They also cut off rice from base, it said. (Staff Reporter)
Media Advisor Hrishikesh Goswami, Home Commissioner L.S. Changsan, DC and Superintendents of Police of Sivasagar and Charaideo, officers of ONGC and OIL were present at the meeting.
Chief Minister Sonowal in Sivasagar. Pic - Neelam kakoty mazumdar
the DAO to take remedial steps to save the farm lands from further devastation. He took stock of the activities of Zila Parishad, Power, Health, Public Health Engineering, Veterinary and Animal Husbandry and PWD Departments. Sonowal also asked all the
Officers of the District to work as a team along with the Deputy Commissioner and render services for the welfare of all sections of the people. Member of Parliament Rameswar Teli, Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, several MLAs, Chief Secretary Vinod Kumar Pipersenia, Chief Minister’s
Earlier in the day the CM met the organizing committee of the centenary year celebration committee of Asom Sahitya Sabha at their office at Sivasagar town for which the event was scheduled I February next year. He also has taken part in an interactive session with the people and appealed them not to entertain corruption at any cost. The rating of the newly formed government should be based on their public service. Clean and corruption free governance is the outcome of the social responsibility and consciousness of the citizen of the society, he said.
Deputy C-in-C of an Adivasi tribe Militant outfit apprehended A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Sept 15
In a major breakthrough for the security forces in Assam, the forces today arrested the self-styled deputy commanderin-chief of an Adivasi tribe militant outfit along with another cadre from Hatkota in East Karbi Anglong district. A defence spokesman here said that acting on a tip-off from the Army intelligence unit, troops of the Red Horn Division, along with the police, carried out operations in Hatkota. The swift and
surgically executed operation led to the apprehension of Binod Gowla, who is the selfstyled deputy C-in-C and one cadre of National Socialist Council of Adivasi (NSCA). One 7.65-mm pistol, a grenade and ammunition were recovered from the two, who had been carrying out extortion and unlawful activities. The NSCA is one of the fringe outfits which has been harassing locals and is involved in extortion. In another operation carried out in the wee hours on Thursday on the basis of intelligence inputs about the
presence of NDFB (S) terrorists in West Daisamguri in Chirang district, a joint team of the Army and Assam Police operation apprehended a terrorist of NDFB (S) outfit, Hwbtasad Brahma alias Darga alias Jathi (aged 20) and recovered a pistol and ammunition from him. The individual was allegedly carrying out extortion on behalf of NDFB (S) and providing details of potential extortion targets to senior leaders of the group based in Myanmar. He has also been involved in providing weapons and ammunition to terrorists of NDFB (S).
Four from Arunachal selected for Boys Sports Company Under the programme of the Arunachal Weightlifting Association (AWA), a team of army officials from Boys Sports Company, AOC Centre, Secunderabad, selected Bengia Tani, Markio Tapa, Tami Tame and Golom Tinku for admissions in the Boys Sports Company.
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Farmers of 52-Changlang (S) A/C have convened a meeting on 14th September 2016 at Moh-Mol ground, Changlang to deliberate over fall of large Cardamom prices in the market. In the wake of price fall, there is hue and cry in the farmer circles as to who could be responsible in bringing the prices into such
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CM directs Chief Secretary to enquire into the lapse of security during the visit of a Union Minister A Staff Reporter Itanagar, Sept 15
Chief Minister Pema Khandu has taken strong exception to the reported lapse in security and breach of protocol during the recent visit of Union Minister of State for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, Mansukh L Mandaviya to the state. Reportedly, while on his
journey to Ziro, along with officials and local political leaders on 13th September, first of all, the pilot vehicle leading the VIP’s convoy had developed technical snag and all vehicles of the entourage, including the VIP’s had drove into a garage and spent quite some time to rectify the defect. Further, on return journey from Ziro, the union minister’s vehicle ran out of fuel. In an urgent note to the
chief secretary this morning, the chief minister categorically observed that such kind of security lapses and breach of protocol during the visit of a union minister has set a bad impression of the state government, its hospitality and protocol arrangements. These lapses cannot be tolerated at any cost and the officers, officials involved should be taken to task.
He directed the chief secretary to enquire into the entire matter and take stringent action against officials found responsible for the unsavoury episodes. Mandaviya, who is also the MoS for Chemicals and Fertilizers, was on a two-day visit to the state along with his wife and had launched the Jan Aushadhi Scheme for the state on September 12 last.
Magisterial enquiry on Police Officer’s death A Staff Reporter Itanagar, Sept 15
Following the death of SubInspector Hano Chatung on September 14 last, a magisterial enquiry has been instituted to enquire into his cause of death vide order No. DC/ICC/JUD/ME/2016, dated Itanagar the 14th September, 2016. Accordingly, CO-cumExecutive Magistrate of
Itanagar Capital Complex, Liken Koyu has been appointed as the Inquiry Officer. Meanwhile, expressing shock and grief over the death of Chatung, Chief Minister Pema Khandu today conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members. Though prima facie circumstances point it to be a suicide case, the chief minister instructed thorough investigation into the case. He
asserted that every possible angle should be investigated with the help of forensic and post-mortem reports, besides taking into account all antecedents prior to the tragedy. The chief minister assured the people, particularly the bereaved family members and the police fraternity, that if investigations reveal any foul play the guilty will not be spared at any cost. “Late Chatung was a
promising police officer. His death is an irreplaceable loss to the police force and the state. I share the grief along with his bereaved family members. May his soul rest in eternal peace,” the chief minister added. Sub-Inspector Chatung was found dead inside his vehicle at 6 Miles, ItanagarNaharlagun road on Wednesday with a gunshot wound on his head at around 7.30am.
Lomhom Tangha Changlang, Sept 15
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unimaginable level. Suspecting a foul play over the whole large cardamom price ebb this year, various farmers from across the constituency came together in the form of general meeting which was convened as mentioned above. They had deliberated over the issue and lamented over the situations to find out the cause of market crash this year and also finding comparative prices in neighbouring districts
The mega auditions round of Miss Capital-2016 got off to a colourful start at the Siddhartha Hall here on Thursday with the contestants taking part in a singing competition.
Civil Societies in Changlang demand District administration to end imbroglio of ‘head hunters’
A Staff Reporter Itanagar, Sept 15
Cardamom market crush, Changlang farmers suspect a foul play Lomhom Tangha Changlang, Sept 15
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& states. In fact this is the only cash crop for people of this area which had replaced the cultivation of poopy upon which they rely upon to look after the educational needs of their wards. The only cash crop out of their sweat is large cardamom for which they can do anything to earn what they deserve. Sensing the future course of the problem, the farmer ’s community had
decided to form the Farmer Association as "Large Cardamom Farmers Association" in the region to avert such problem in the long run. It is expected that with the outcome of such Association, the farmer will have security in their endeavour. The president, Secretary and other executive members have been selected to lead the Association so formed to give more proper platform for the needy farmers.
Public meeting was held under the banner of Changlang People's Forum to discuss over the fear psychosis being emanated unabated in the whole of Changlang district on account of Murkatas, ‘head hunters’. Several reports have evolved across the circles though there is no exact proof of it. In the meeting, Chief functionaries of other organisations like CDSU, Muklom Elite Society, All Tutsa Welfare Society, All Sabban Development Committee, members of Longchang Elite Society and various elders of the societies have attended the meeting. But off late the District administration and Police department have refuted the rumours that are lingering in the district. The various civil societies
CDSU, Muklom Elite Society, All Tutsa Welfare Society, All Sabban Development Committee, members of Longchang Elite Society and various elders of the societies have attended the meeting. so present in the meeting have resolved that the forum will request the district administration to take acute precaution by deploying the police and para military personnel across the district to ensure that the panic that
are in the minds already imbedded in the school going children and females group in the society be erased. The district administration should not leave any stone unturned to uphold the psychological security of the
weaker gender in the society by providing the best mechanism preferably by addressing the issues through wide publication of the matter that hovering over the sky using the best possible means.
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Chief Minister asks Highways Authority to repair Dibrugarh-Sivasagar’s 183 KM stretch within 30 September
Chief Minister Sonowal sought information from the District Agriculture Officer (DAO) about the teeming caterpillars that wrecked havoc on the crop land. He directed
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Miffed at the conditions of the National Highways, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today asked National Highways Authority (NHAI) of India to repair 183 KM stretch of the National Highways from Dibrugarh towards Sivasagar within September 30. Reviewing the government schemes and programmes at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office in Sivasagar today, Chief Minister Sonowal asked the NHAI to undertake the repair work on a war footing to ease encumbrances of the commuters.
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