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Page 1 August 30_Normal Pages 8/29/2021 10:59 PM Page 1 4 Another terrorist attack on Kabul D L airport is ‘highly likely’: Biden R O US evacuates about 2,000 people W from Kabul in the last 24 hours 8 Start-up culture now vibrant N O in India: Modi I T A NCB arrests actor Armaan Kohli after N recovery of cocaine at his residence www.thehillstimes.in Voice of the hills people Vol .No. XXII Issue No. 223 Regd. NGG-709 RNI-ASSENG/2000/128T62 DIPHHU, KAERBI ANGLHONG, MONIDALY, AUGLUSTS 30, 2021 T PAGEIS 1M2 PRICEE ` 5 S South Africa detects new Covid variant C.1.2 Flood situation turns grim, more than 2.58 l5a725k6 inh 78 vpillaeges, oDhepmajli, e Ina Lafkhfimepur c7,47t0 ehectdare of JOHANNESBURG, Aug 29 Rising water inundates 35539 in 56 villages, Jorhat, 13150 agricultural cropland has been (IANS): South Africa has identi - in 22 villages, and Dibrugarh flooded followed by Majuli, 4057 fied a potential variant of interest Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, 11157 in 15 villages. hectare, Dhemaji, 3857.16 hectare, (VOI) of Covid-19 that is as - three feral horses swept away In Tinsukia, 8162 people have Sonitpur 1818.18 hectare and signed to the PANGO lineage been affected in 5 villages, Jorhat 1479 hectare. C.1.2. HT Correspondent Information Management Systems Sivasagar, 7801 in 16 villages, A total of 2,39,723 animals in - C.1.2 was first identified in JORHAT/DIBRUGARH, Aug Assam report on Sunday, 24 relief Biswanath 6549 in 32 villages, cluding poultry have been affected May 2021 during the third wave 29: More than 2.58 lakh people in camps have been set up with 6,218 Chirang 5876 in 16 villages, Na - in the floods. of Covid in the country, said re - 14 districts across the state have inmates and 67 flood relief distri - gaon, 5300 in 14 villages, Barpeta In Bongaigaon, Lakhimpur and searchers from the country's Na - been affected by the recent floods bution systems have been set up to 1074 in 125 villages. In Bon - Sivasagar, Kutcha houses have tional Institute for Communicable and 24,704 hectare of cropland af - provide relief materials to the flood gaigaon, 553 people have been af - been damaged and a couple of Diseases (NICD) and the fected in 16 districts. affected. fected in 17 villages, in Kamrup Pucca houses. In Dibrugarh and KwaZulu-Natal Research Innova - No death has so far been re - The districts affected by floods 300 people in 2 villages and in Go - Lakhimpur there are reports of sev - tion and Sequencing Platform. ported nor any animals or wildlife are: Barpeta, Biswanath, Bon - Lakhimpur, Majuli, Morigaon, Na - maximum devastation with a laghat 217 people in 44 villages. eral LP schools being damaged. It has since been detected have been washed away. gaigaon, Chirang, Dhemaji, Dibru - gaon, Sivasagar, Sonitpur and Tin - 1,05,257 population being affected In Dhemaji 50 people and 450 Large scale erosion of embank - across the majority of the As per the Flood Reporting and garh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup. sukia. Lakhimpur has reported the 131 villages followed by Majuli, animals were evacuated by boats. ments and (CONTD. ON PAGE-9) provinces in South Africa and in seven other countries spanning Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania, the researchers reported in the study that is yet to be peer-re - Debabrata calls for House viewed and is posted on pre-print server medRxiv. US airstrike hits suicide The variant has evolved from session to discuss hydel C.1, one of the lineages that dom - inated the first wave of SARS- CoV-2 infections in South Africa projects, women security and was last detected in January bombers targeting Kabul airport HT Bureau Brahmaputra and other rivers. The 2021. C.1.2 is "associated with in - GUWAHATI, Aug 29: The leader committee had recommended fol - creased transmissibility and re - Taliban suicide bomber wants to target Kabul airport amid American evacuation of the Opposition in Assam Leg - lowing the CD Thate and Reddy duced neutralisation sensitivity," KABUL, Aug 29 (AP): An US erations, called the airstrike suc - islative Assembly, Debabrata committees, with the observation wrote the team, including airstrike on Sunday targeted a ve - cessful. They said the strike caused Saikia, has demanded a special as - that a big dam should not be con - Cathrine Scheepers, from NICD, hicle carrying multiple suicide significant secondary explosions sembly session to discuss hydel structed on the proposed site. The in the abstract. bombers from Afghanistan's Is - indicating the presence of a sub - power projects and security of Sonowal government, however, Compared to C.1, the new vari - lamic State affiliate before they stantial amount of explosive mate - women issues. signed a memorandum of under - ant has "mutated substantially" could target the ongoing American rial in the vehicle. Saikia’s de - standing with and is more mutations away from military evacuation at Kabul's in - The strike was the second by mand came after NHPC in 2019 the original virus detected in ternational airport, officials said. America since the airport suicide the flash flood without imple - Wuhan than any other Variant of There were few initial details bombing. On Saturday, a strike in created havoc in menting the rec - Concern (VOC) or VOI detected about the incident, as well as a Nangarhar province killed an Is - Lakhimpur and ommendations of so far worldwide. rocket that struck a neighborhood lamic State member believed to be Dhemaji districts the bipartite According to the study, C.1.2 just northwest of the airport, killing involved in planning attacks due to release of agreement of has 41.8 mutations per year. It is a child. against the United States in Kabul. excess water 2014, which goes approximately 1.7-fold faster than The two strikes initially ap - The strike killed one person, from NHPC’s against Assam the current global rate and 1.8- peared to be separate incidents, spokesman Navy Capt William Lower Subansiri and leads to less fold faster than the initial estimate though information on both re - Urban said. Hydroelectric electricity for the of SARS-CoV-2 evolution. mained scarce. security around the airfield as something fueled by the recent The rocket attack meanwhile Project in the state. Arunachal A similar short period of in - The strike came as the United Britain ended its evacuation flights killing of a folk singer in the coun - struck Kabul's Khuwja Bughra last week. will receive 200 creased evolution was also asso - States winds down a historic airlift Saturday. try by the insurgents. neighborhood, said Rashid, the “Three districts in North Assam megawatts of electricity solely due ciated with the emergence of the that saw tens of thousands evacu - US military cargo planes contin - Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Kabul police chief who goes by are on the verge of destruction due to the reason that the power house Alpha, Beta, and Gamma VOCs, ated from Kabul's international air - ued their runs into the airport Sun - Mujahid earlier said in a message one name. Video obtained by The to the mistake of the government. and reservoir are located in that said the researchers, suggesting port, the scene of much of the day, ahead of a Tuesday deadline to journalists that the US strike tar - Associated Press in the aftermath When a mass movement started state while Assam will receive only that a single event, followed by chaos that engulfed the Afghan earlier set by President Joe Biden geted a suicide bomber as he drove of the attack showed smoke rising against the Lower Subansiri Hy - 25 megawatts despite the possibil - the amplification of cases, drove capital since the Taliban took over to withdraw all troops from Amer - a vehicle loaded with explosives. from buildings at the site around a droelectric project during the Tarun ity of destruction here,” he said. a faster mutation rate. two weeks ago. ica's longest war. However, Mujahid offered few other details. kilometer (half a mile) from the Gogoi government in 2010, a com - “Late Tarun Gogoi had not About 52 per cent of the spike After an Islamic State affiliate's Afghans remaining in the country Two American military officials, airport. No group immediately mittee was formed and tasked with signed the agreement but Sonowal mutations identified in C.1.2 have suicide attack that killed over 180 worry about the Taliban reverting who spoke on the condition of claimed the attack, however mili - submitting a report on the destruc - did so only to please Delhi. Now, previously (CONTD. ON PAGE-9) people, the Taliban increased its to their earlier oppressive rule, anonymity to discuss military op - tants have (CONTD. ON PAGE-9) tive effect of such projects on the water is (CONTD. ON PAGE-9) Bhupen, Gaurav Heroin worth ` 14 crore Rupsing bats for deployment of give grand alliance seized in Sonapur, 6 held additional force in Meghalaya border push with AIUDF “#AssamAgainstDrugs @assampolice continues its HT Bureau HT Correspondent tirade against drug mafia! @GuwahatiPol intercepts huge DIPHU, Aug 29: Baithalangso ABHAYAPURI, Aug 29: The consignment of 1.2 kg heroin (100 packets) coming from MLA Rupsing Teron has advocated Assam Pradesh Congress Commit - another state. We are determined to curb and eliminate for deployment of additional forces tee (APCC) president Bhupen drugs business. We have arrested 6 in this case so far,” along Assam-Meghalaya border to Kumar Borah and Lok Sabha MP chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a tweet. maintain peace among the people of Gaurav Gogoi had a meeting with The seized heroin has been estimated to be worth over the two neighbouring states.