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82 years of service to the nation PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM GUWAHATI & DIBRUGARH RN-1127/57 TECH/GH – 103/2018-2020, VOL. 82, NO. 142 www.assamtribune.com Pages 12 Price: 6.00 GUWAHATI, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2020 p2 Court mulls moving Netanyahu p5 Landslide at Panjabari p11 AASU opposes move to trial to new location damages house hand over oilfields to pvt cos 4 repatriation Military flights to land WHO warning in Guwahati BANGKOK, May 26: As STAFF REPORTER Brazil and India struggle with surging coronavirus GUWAHATI, May 26: cases, WHO executive top brass Four repatriation flights are director Dr Mike Ryan has warned that the world is still expected to land at the Lok- smack in the middle of the priya Gopinath Bordoloi In- pandemic, dampening hopes ternational Airport here be- for a speedy global economic meets PM tween May 27 and June 5. rebound and renewed The flights scheduled to international travel. – AP arrive in the coming days III Also see page 2 Border tension with China are from Ukraine, Moscow, Re-arrest Kuwait and the Philippines, NEW DELHI, May 26: NEW DELHI, May 26: tablishment said the Prime said Chief Secretary Kumar The Delhi Police today re- In the midst of escalating Minister was briefed about Sanjay Krishna. arrested the two JNU border tension between the situation in Ladakh. Talking to The Assam students – Devangana Tribune , Sanjay Krishna Kalita and Natasha Narwal, Indian and Chinese troops There was no official com- said the flights would carry this time under strict in eastern Ladakh, Prime ment or details available A country boat ferrying people in a flood-hit area near Chabua in Dibrugarh district on Tuesday. – UB Photos provisions of various Minister Narendra Modi on about the meeting. people stranded in those criminal laws. They were Tuesday held a meeting Official sources said NSA countries, mostly students. granted bail when they with National Security Ad- Doval has been closely mon- “It is part of the pan-India were arrested earlier on viser Ajit Doval, Chief of itoring the evolving situation initiative as per which the Saturday. – Spl Defence Staff General Bi- along the LAC in Ladakh as flights would be directed to Correspondent 7 districts of State hit by flood Guwahati as well,” the Chief pin Rawat and the three well as in north Sikkim and UK minister service chiefs with a focus Uttarakhand. Secretary added. STAFF REPORTER cles in the affected districts. villages in Nalbari, 19 brugarh and two villages in However, the exact tim- LONDON, May 26: A on bolstering India’s mili- “China’s strategy to put The affected areas included villages each in Tinsukia and Lakhimpur district. ing of the flights is still not junior minister in Boris tary preparedness to deal military pressure on India Johnson’s Cabinet resigned GUWAHATI, May 26: 140 villages in Goalpara, 26 Dhemaji, six villages in Di- A total of 8,971 people are known. with external security chal- will not work. We want res- from his post on Tuesday in Seven districts of the State taking shelter in 35 relief Meanwhile, the second lenges, government sourc- toration of the status quo protest against the UK are reeling under flood camps set up by the admin- day of resumption of passen- IMD warns of heavy es said. along the LAC,” said an offi- Prime Minister’s support of affecting two lakh people istrations of the affected ger flights saw 13 arrivals his top aide, Dominic The military brass is learnt cial on the condition of ano- even as a red alert was districts. and departures, mainly con- Cummings, over a rainfall in Assam to have apprised Modi about nymity. sounded today for heavy rain Flood waters today necting Delhi, Mumbai, perceived breach of the in the districts of Kokrajhar, SPL CORRESPONDENT breached the embankment the evolving situation in east- In the meeting, the top mili- strict stay-at-home COVID- Chennai, Bengaluru, Silchar Chirang and Baksa. of Buradia river at Amoni ern Ladakh, though officials tary brass is learnt to have ap- 19 lockdown rules. – PTI and Imphal till this evening. NEW DELHI, May 26: A red-colour coded weather alert has maintained that the agenda of prised Modi about the imple- III Also see page 2 Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, village of Nalbari district. A total of 1,409 passengers been issued for Assam and Meghalaya from May 26-28, by the the pre-scheduled meeting mentation of key infrastructure Darrang, Nalbari, Goalpara, Moreover, Subansiri river arrived in Guwahati during Sharjeel plea India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Central Wa- was to discuss the ambitious projects along the LAC, the de- Dibrugarh and Tinsukia dis- has triggered heavy erosion the course of the day, while NEW DELHI, May 26: tricts were reeling under ter Commission (CWC) has issued a severe flood warning alert. in Lakhimpur district. military reforms and ways to facto border with China. The Supreme Court today 724 departed for different the first wave of floods, The IMD on Tuesday predicted very heavy rainfall in these Sonitpur and Nalbari were boost India’s combat prowess. Official sources said India sought replies from Uttar destinations. The frequency two North Eastern States. Head of the IMD’s national weather The meeting came hours will not stop infrastructure Pradesh, Assam, Arunachal according to a bulletin issued also hit by erosion. of the flights is likely to in- forecasting centre Sathi Devi, said there is a strong flow of after the top four generals development projects in stra- Pradesh and Manipur on a by the Assam State Disas- A number of roads in Dhe- crease from tomorrow, sub- south-westerly winds from the Bay of Bengal, bringing a lot of briefed Defence Minister tegic areas along the nearly plea by JNU student and ter Management Authority. maji, Nalbari and Goalpara ject to weather conditions. anti-CAA activist Sharjeel Jia Bharali river in Sonitpur moisture to these two states. districts and a number of Rajnath Singh about the situ- 3,500-km Sino-India border, Imam seeking clubbing of district and Brahmaputra at Meanwhile, the Central Water Commission (CWC) has is- bridges and culverts in ation in Pangong Tso lake, notwithstanding China’s Govt must spell multiple FIRs levelling Neamatighat in Jorhat were sued a severe flood alert for the Brahmaputra river in As- Nalbari, Bongaigaon and Galwan Valley, Demchok and well-coordinated efforts to sedition charges against flowing above the danger sam’s Neamatighat and Jia-Bharali in Jorhat and Sonitpur Goalpara district were Daulat Beg Oldi where the stall them by attempting to him. – PTI out lockdown level. districts, respectively. damaged in the floods so far. Indian and Chinese troops vitiate the situation in areas Till Tuesday, a population Meanwhile, the IMD said that the south-westerly winds Moreover, 1,007 hectares were engaged in aggressive like eastern Ladakh. reopening: Rahul of 1,94,916 were hit in 229 will be aided by the orographic factors of these two states that of crop area have been posturing for the last 20 days. NEW DELHI, May 26: villages of 17 revenue cir- will bring in very heavy rainfall, she added. affected in the floods. People in the military es- SEE PAGE 6 Congress leader Rahul Gan- dhi on Tuesday said the four phases of the nationwide lockdown have “failed” and Positive cases in State reach 666 Quarantine guidelines not given the results that Prime Minister Narendra STAFF REPORTER forced to take certain deci- to be enforced strictly Modi expected as he urged sions, like requisition of col- Govt examining bulk the Centre to spell out its GUWAHATI, May 26: As leges and university hostels, STAFF REPORTER strategy for “opening up” the COVID-19 count in As- people should not object. cases among train the country. sam reached 666 following a Meanwhile, the govern- GUWAHATI, May 26 : The State Cabinet, in view of the Addressing an online spike over the last few days, ment is closely examining returnees from Chennai spike of positive cases of novel corona virus, has today de- press conference, he ex- A woman with her child Health Minister Himanta two recent developments – cided to enforce the guidelines of quarantine norms strin- pressed concern that India arrives at IGI airport for Biswa Sarma today urged the one is the spike of cases in gently while stating that the people coming from outside is the only country which is domestic travel after the people of the State to “hold Golaghat district and the oth- will be sent for institutional quarantine, and no home quar- relaxing the lockdown when resumption of flight services, in New Delhi on on” for another 20 days to en- er of a bus whose 17 passen- WORLD antine will be allowed. the virus is “exponentially Tuesday. – PTI sure that there is no commu- gers have tested positive in Further, the State Cabinet also agreed on disbursing Rs rising”. nity transmission of the virus. Lakhimpur district. Confirmed cases 5,631,786 2,000 each to all the 3.61 lakh people of Assam stranded He said that if the govern- “We feel that the number Around 120 youths travel- outside under ‘Assam Care’ every month from April to JOCOSERIOUS Cured/Discharged 2,399,230 ment functions haphazardly of returnees from outside will ling in the Shramik Special June. during the non-lockdown pe- gradually come down after train from Chennai have test- Death 348,964 In addition to this, the Ministers in charge of different riod, the country will face a June 10-15. So we just need ed positive. The youths had districts for the supervision of COVID-19 have been given second wave of coronavirus to hold on for another 20 days.