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In Daring Assam Prisonbreak, 5 Men Scale 20-Foot Wall With Bedsheets, Lungis
Five undertrial prisoners, charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, escaped from a prison in Assam after breaking rods and scaling a 20-foot wall using bedsheets, blankets and 'lungis'.
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Assam Government Employee Arrested For Sexually Harassing Colleague: Cops
An official of the district handloom and textile department in Assam's Morigaon was arrested on Friday for allegedly sexually harassing a female colleague, police said.
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Assam Police Arrest Two More Al Qaeda-Linked Terror Suspects
Assam Police were on the lookout for Musadik Hussain and Ikramul Islam, who were said to be part of the Morigaon module of ABT and were led by a cleric called Mufti Mustafa, who was arrested earlier
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Assam Man Gets 20 Years In Jail For Raping, Impregnating Minor Sister
A POCSO court in Assam's Morigaon district has sentenced a 23-year-old married person to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for repeatedly raping and impregnating his own minor sister.
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Assam Chief Minister Visits Rape And Murder Victim's Family, Assures Justice
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today visited Bhuragaon in Morigaon district to take stock of the investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl belong to a religious minority community.
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2.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Assam
An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 on the Richter scale hit Assam's Morigaon on Friday morning, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).
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Senior Assam Officials, Quarantined After Contact With COVID-19 Patient, Test Negative
Two senior officials in Assam's Morigaon district, who were quarantined after they came in contact with a COVID-19 patient, have tested negative for the deadly virus. Samples were taken from the officials - Deputy Commissioner and a Superintendent of Police - and the results were disclosed today by Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Twitt...
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Watch: School Building In Assam Crashes Into Brahmaputra Amid Heavy Rain
As Assam reels under intense rain and floods that have affected about 15 lakh people and killed at least seven, a video from the Morigaon district showed dramatic visuals of a school building collapsing into the Brahmaputra river on Friday.
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Despite Funds, Assam's Flood Fight Is Difficult
Dimbeshwar Das of Koilajhari village in Assam's flood-ravaged Morigaon district, about 150 km away from Guwahati, has been living on the village road for more than a month after the second wave of floods displaced him. The second flood wave isn't allowing the 47-year-old to return home, which may have been destroyed.
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Amid Assam Floods, How This Village Is Fighting To Save Its Eroding Embankment
58-year-old Hari Chandra Nath, headman of Kathoni village in Assam's Morigaon is worried these days. During the past week, he has been busy trying to save his village from being ravaged by the floods in the state.
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Inside What Would Be Assam's First Cashless Village
38-year-old Naresh Nath is among the first few rural villagers in Assam who have started to transact cashless. Like him at least 2,000 other villagers of Chatonguri in Assam's Morigaon district, 110 kilometres from Guwahati, have started to buy their essentials from their tiny village market digitally.
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BJP Legislators Stage Walkout from Assam Assembly
BJP MLAs today staged a walkout from the state Assembly after they were not allowed to discuss an alleged attack by two Assam Congress leaders on police personnel who had gone to arrest a Bangladeshi national in Morigaon district.
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Newborn Forced to Walk by Witch Doctor in Assam Village as Fever Cure
A two-day old baby boy was grabbed by his neck and made to walk a few steps by a quack as a cure for fever in a village in Assam. The baby was saved from further torture when a villager took a mobile phone video and shared it.
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Flood fury in Assam affects 18 lakh people
Lakhs of people have been moved to safer places in Assam as the Brahmaputra river continues to rise. The river is threatening many more areas as it swells. This is 8th wave of flood in the last three months and not a single morsel has been distributed as relief in Buragaon revenue circle where 1.2 lakh people have been affected. 104 villages have a...
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Two poachers arrested; rhino horn seized
Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested two poachers and seized a horn of the highly endangered one-horned rhino from their possession in Morigaon district.Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Nabi Ali and Muzibur Rahman from Borsola village and seized the rhino horn from them, police sources said.Police suspect that the poachers killed a rhino i...
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In Daring Assam Prisonbreak, 5 Men Scale 20-Foot Wall With Bedsheets, Lungis
Five undertrial prisoners, charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, escaped from a prison in Assam after breaking rods and scaling a 20-foot wall using bedsheets, blankets and 'lungis'.
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Assam Government Employee Arrested For Sexually Harassing Colleague: Cops
An official of the district handloom and textile department in Assam's Morigaon was arrested on Friday for allegedly sexually harassing a female colleague, police said.
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Assam Police Arrest Two More Al Qaeda-Linked Terror Suspects
Assam Police were on the lookout for Musadik Hussain and Ikramul Islam, who were said to be part of the Morigaon module of ABT and were led by a cleric called Mufti Mustafa, who was arrested earlier
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Assam Man Gets 20 Years In Jail For Raping, Impregnating Minor Sister
A POCSO court in Assam's Morigaon district has sentenced a 23-year-old married person to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for repeatedly raping and impregnating his own minor sister.
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Assam Chief Minister Visits Rape And Murder Victim's Family, Assures Justice
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today visited Bhuragaon in Morigaon district to take stock of the investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl belong to a religious minority community.
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2.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Assam
An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 on the Richter scale hit Assam's Morigaon on Friday morning, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).
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Senior Assam Officials, Quarantined After Contact With COVID-19 Patient, Test Negative
Two senior officials in Assam's Morigaon district, who were quarantined after they came in contact with a COVID-19 patient, have tested negative for the deadly virus. Samples were taken from the officials - Deputy Commissioner and a Superintendent of Police - and the results were disclosed today by Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Twitt...
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Watch: School Building In Assam Crashes Into Brahmaputra Amid Heavy Rain
As Assam reels under intense rain and floods that have affected about 15 lakh people and killed at least seven, a video from the Morigaon district showed dramatic visuals of a school building collapsing into the Brahmaputra river on Friday.
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Despite Funds, Assam's Flood Fight Is Difficult
Dimbeshwar Das of Koilajhari village in Assam's flood-ravaged Morigaon district, about 150 km away from Guwahati, has been living on the village road for more than a month after the second wave of floods displaced him. The second flood wave isn't allowing the 47-year-old to return home, which may have been destroyed.
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Amid Assam Floods, How This Village Is Fighting To Save Its Eroding Embankment
58-year-old Hari Chandra Nath, headman of Kathoni village in Assam's Morigaon is worried these days. During the past week, he has been busy trying to save his village from being ravaged by the floods in the state.
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Inside What Would Be Assam's First Cashless Village
38-year-old Naresh Nath is among the first few rural villagers in Assam who have started to transact cashless. Like him at least 2,000 other villagers of Chatonguri in Assam's Morigaon district, 110 kilometres from Guwahati, have started to buy their essentials from their tiny village market digitally.
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BJP Legislators Stage Walkout from Assam Assembly
BJP MLAs today staged a walkout from the state Assembly after they were not allowed to discuss an alleged attack by two Assam Congress leaders on police personnel who had gone to arrest a Bangladeshi national in Morigaon district.
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Newborn Forced to Walk by Witch Doctor in Assam Village as Fever Cure
A two-day old baby boy was grabbed by his neck and made to walk a few steps by a quack as a cure for fever in a village in Assam. The baby was saved from further torture when a villager took a mobile phone video and shared it.
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Flood fury in Assam affects 18 lakh people
Lakhs of people have been moved to safer places in Assam as the Brahmaputra river continues to rise. The river is threatening many more areas as it swells. This is 8th wave of flood in the last three months and not a single morsel has been distributed as relief in Buragaon revenue circle where 1.2 lakh people have been affected. 104 villages have a...
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Two poachers arrested; rhino horn seized
Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested two poachers and seized a horn of the highly endangered one-horned rhino from their possession in Morigaon district.Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Nabi Ali and Muzibur Rahman from Borsola village and seized the rhino horn from them, police sources said.Police suspect that the poachers killed a rhino i...
