EasternChroniWINDOW TO THE EAST cle WEATHERWATCH MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY AF CRISIS: INDIA BRINGS THOMPSON-HERAH Max 32°c ordered into death of murder back close to 400 people runs second fastest-ever Min 25°c accused Abdul Khaleque P4 in three flights P6 women’s 100m P10 Humidity 80% VOL XI, ISSUE 495 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM SILCHAR GUWAHATI KOLKATA PAGES: 10 epaper at: www.easternchronicle.net PRICE `9 MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2021 MIZORAM ACCUSES THEFT BY NEIGHBOURING ASSAM 3 dacoits shot dead, bank Assam police stops illegal const robbery foiled in Kokrajhar RINOY BASUMATARY & AGENCIES KOKRAJHAR: Three suspected dacoits were shot dead as they by Mizoram, seize materials tried to rob a bank in Assam’s CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE rushed there. “The Mizo Hailakandi. A case has been Kokrajhar district in the early forces did not dare to start filed in the matter, officials hours of Sunday, police said. HAILAKANDI / AIZAWL: Assam the construction work of the have said. The police had intelligence police on early Monday culvert on this day after see- The incident took place on input that a gang of dacoits stopped illegal construc- ing the preparations of the Friday after the Assam police would attempt to rob an Alla- tion of a culvert undertaken Assam police”, he told media. personnel entered Mizoram’s habad Bank branch at Bhot- by Mizoram authorities at According to the sources, Zophai area in Kolasib’s gaon near Kokrajhar town, Kachurthal in Hailakandi Mizo miscreants started con- Bairabi subdivision, where a senior police officer of the district, well inside Assam struction of roads and cul- a bridge is being built, Dis- district said. areas. verts at Kachurthal in Assam trict Deputy Commissioner H A previous attempt of rob- Superintendent of po- area on Friday with a new Lalthlangliana has informed bing the same branch was Assam police officials show the arms, ammunitions and other materials recovered lice (Hailakandi) Gaurav initiative along the interstate Rohan Jha, his Hailakandi foiled three months back, he from the possession of the decoits, in Kokrajhar on Sunday. Photo: Rinoy Basumatary. Upadhyay informed that border with the help of Mizo- counterpart. said. The gang was intercepted the gang managed to escape, the officer said. “The opera- soon after receiving the in- ram police and jawans of IR “Assam police created at Chengmari near Bhotgaon the officer said. The injured tion was on till late night to formation that Mizos have Battalion. “However, Assam File photo of clash along Assam-Mizoram border, recently. problems for the workers on around 2.30 am, the officer dacoits were taken to a near- flush out rest of the dacoits,” been planning to resume the police stopped the illegal con- station in Hailakandi, Liton control. Meanwhile, Mizo- the site and even stole some said. They allegedly opened by hospital where they were Director-General of Police construction of the culvert struction and seized the con- Nath on Sunday. ram has accused the Assam construction materials, in- fire on the security personnel declared dead, he said. Motor- Bhaskarjyoti Mahanta said. in Kachurthal, he along with struction materials brought He informed that although police of “stealing” construc- cluding pieces of iron rods...A on being intercepted, and in cycles, mobile phones, tools, Chief Minister Himanta Bis- IGP Anurag Agarwal, circle to the place by the contractor situation along the interstate tion material in Kolasib dis- police case of theft of con- retaliatory firing by the police, gas cutters, two pistols along wa Sarma lauded the efforts officer (Katlicherra) Pulak deputed by Mizoram,”, said border continue to remain trict which shares the border struction materials has been three dacoits were injured, with oxygen cylinders were of the police in preventing the Biswas and other officers OC of Ramnathpur police tensed, however, it’s under with the neighbouring state’s filed against them at ... Pg 5 he said. Other members of recovered from those killed, bank robbery. Pg 5 SPOTLIGHT After AIUDF, Assam Jamiat NF Railway CM Sarma celebrates TMC should not Senior BJP leader La. cancels and divide the Cong Ganesan appointed suspends its secretary restores some Raksha Bandhan Manipur Governor AGENCIES THE DECISION CAME AFTER says TPCC chief NEW DELHI: Senior BJP lead- train services CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE er from Tamil Nadu La. GUWAHATI: The Assam State ASSAM POLICE ARRESTED CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE with women, children Ganesan was on Sunday Jamiat Ulama on Sunday has MAULANA FAZLUL KARIM CNS & AGENCIES beloved sisters belonging AGARTALA: In a dramatic appointed as the new gov- suspended Maulana Fazlul QASMI ON SATURDAY GUWAHATI: The Northeast to different organisations, chain of events, Tripura ernor of Manipur. The post Karim Qasmi from the post Frontier Railway has decided GUWAHATI: On the occasion who tied Rakhi to me. On the Pradesh Congress commit- of the governor had fallen of secretary with immediate FOR HIS ALLEGED to restore some passenger and of Rakshabandhan, Assam auspicious occasion of #Rak- tee president Pijush Biswas vacant after the retirement effect. The decision came after CONTROVERSIAL POST ON DEMU train services from Chief Minister Dr. Himanta shaBandhan, which cele- withdrew his resignation of Najma Heptulla earlier Assam police arrested Maula- SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPORTING Sunday with revised timings Biswa Sarma on Sunday cel- brates the eternal bond be- hours after he decided to this month. A communique na Fazlul Karim Qasmi on for the benefit of short dis- ebrated the day with sisters tween brothers and sisters, I quit the party officially at from the Rashtrapati Bha- Saturday for his alleged con- THE TALIBAN TAKEOVER OF tance travellers. On the other from different walks of life extended my heartfelt greet- the instance of AICC’s confi- van said Ganesan will be the troversial post on social media AFGHANISTAN. hand, services of few trains in Guwahati. Taking to his ings to everyone”, tweeted dence. Speaking exclusively new “Governor of Manipur supporting the Taliban takeo- Maulana Fazlul Karim Qasmi. have been cancelled between Twitter handle, the Chief CM Sarma. On this occasion, to this reporter Biswas said with effect from the date he ver of Afghanistan. al secretary citing the same of Afghanistan. The arrests Guwahati – Jammu Tawi and Minister stated that he is a girl or a woman puts a ti- he had been assured by the assumes charge of his of- Earlier on Saturday, the reason. So far Assam police have been made since Friday Katihar – Amritsar in view of “deeply moved by the warm lak on her brother’s forehead AICC about his issues being fice”. Pg 5 All India United Democratic had arrested 13 more people night and the accused have Kisan agitation in Firozpur gesture” carried out by wom- and ties a rakhi around his looked into and slammed the Front (AIUDF) party had also across the state for their al- been booked under different Cant. Division of Northern en belonging to different or- wrist in a ritual that reaf- Trinamool Congress for ag- Assam reports suspended Maulana Fazlul leged social media posts sup- sections of the Unlawful Activ- Railway. Among these pas- ganisations. “Deeply moved firms the bond and support gressively trying to divide 640 new Covid Karim from the post of gener- porting the Taliban takeover ities (Prevention) Act, ... Pg 5 senger services: ... Pg 5 by the warm gesture of my of her brother(s). Pg 5 the Congress. Pg 5 cases, 15 fatalities Ripun lists ‘failures’ of Rescue center becomes GUWAHATI: Assam’s COV- ID-19 tally rose to 5,84,098 on Saturday as 640 more people Himanta govt’s 100 days home for orphaned rhinos tested positive for the infec- tion, while 15 fresh fatalities Making an analysis of the AGENCIES pushed the toll to 5,566, a 100 days performance of the bulletin issued by the Na- BJP-led government in As- GUWAHATI: A four-month-old tional Health Mission here sam, Bora also alleged that Ganga had lost her mother to said. Kamrup Metropolitan the inter-state border disputes surging waters of the Brah- district reported the highest have escalated during the maputra nearly two decades number of new cases at 126, new dispensation and it has back, but she has now found followed by Golaghat at 50, gone back on the promise of her home on the banks of an- Barpeta at 39 and Dibrugarh waiving off the micro finance other river and is a healthy at 35. Four fresh COVID-19 loan of women. The Congress mother of four young ones. File photo. fatalities were reported from Congress MP Ripun Bora. leader said in a statement Orphaned by the floods in (CWRC) in Kaziranga in 2003, Nalbari district and two CNS & AGENCIES that Sarma’s government has Assam’s famed Kaziranga along with another rhino from Barpeta. Pg 5 made tall claims about success National Park, Ganga had calf, Rathin Barman of Wild- GUWAHATI: Congress leader and in various fields but “practi- found a refuge on the periph- life Trust of India (WTI) told Several bodies Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora cally there is nothing to show ery of the Park where she a news agancy. Hand-raised has slammed the Himanta Bis- as achievements”. Out of As- was raised before setting out by the staff of the CWRC, oppose proposed wa Sarma-led Assam govern- sam’s 3.35 crore population, to live on her own in her nat- the pair was translocated to ment for the alleged slow pace just 20 lakh were fully vacci- ural habitat. Manas National Park (MNP), ADC Bill 2021 of vaccination in the state and nated till now while 1.28 crore Ganga was the second about 300 km away from their IMPHAL: A one-day public “jeopardising” age-old social people got just single dose and rhino to be rescued by the birthplace, four years later discourse on the Manipur harmony by bringing in a cat- 1.07 crore people of the age of Children along with representatives of various organisations tying Rakhi on Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma Center for Wildlife Rehabil- where they have thrived over on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan at Minister’s Colony, Dispur on Sunday.