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Monday, 26 October 2015

Two singers die in a road mishap at Dudhnoi

Two well known singers died and three others were seriously in a tragic road accident, when their vehicle collided with a stranded truck in the wee hours of Monday.

The accident took place near Dudhnoi in Goalpara district.

The deceased were Jiten Deka and Mitradev Rabha. Other injured persons were Haragovind Deka, Basistha Rabha and Nirmal Chetarjee.

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Geeta, girl stranded in Pakistan, returns India today

An Indian woman found on the Pakistani side of the border more than a decade ago is on her way home after recently identifying her family in photos sent from across the border.

Geeta, who has speech and hearing impairments, was about 11 when she is believed to have strayed into Pakistan.

As the time nears for Geeta to be re-united with her family, excitement looms large in the Kabeera Dhaap village in Saharsa district.

Villager Janardhan Mahato has claimed that Geeta is his daughter, Heera, who was lost in a fair in Ludhiana city in the western Indian state of Punjab which shares a border with Pakistan.

According to sources, Geeta had identified her father, step-mother and siblings from a photograph sent to her by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. They reportedly live in Bihar.

At least four families had come forward to claim Geeta as their child. The MEA then asked for family photographs, which were sent her.

Geeta was reportedly just 7 or 8 years old when she was found sitting alone inside the Samjhauta Express by the Pakistan Rangers at the Lahore railway station 15 years ago. The local police took her to the Edhi Foundation.

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Friday, 16 October 2015

NASA releases striking new images of Saturn's moon Enceladus

NASA has released striking new images from the Cassini spacecraft’s flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.Cassini has begun its final tour around Saturn's large, icy moons making the first of several encounters with Enceladus early Wednesday. The flyby took the spacecraft to an altitude of 1,142 miles above the moon's surface. In earlier encounters with the moon, Enceladus was hidden by wintry darkness.

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Rising dal prices hit home budgets

A sudden and steep surge in prices of pulses in Assam in the last few days has hit the common man hard with dal-the essential item in an Indian meal – doing the vanishing trick from the market.

The sudden spurt in prices of pulses despite supplies remaining intact has left the common man baffled.

The State government has no control on price rise of essential commodities as the ruling party busy for upcoming assembly election.

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Guwahati gears up to celebrate Durga Puja

As the Durga Puja celebrations started on Monday, more than 500 pandals in Guwahati prepared to offer prayers and 'pushpanjali' to the Goddess. Puja organizers have completed their preparations to receive the hordes of devotees who started flocking to the pandals from Saptami onwards to offer pushpanjali.

Police asked Durga Puja committees to deploy women volunteers to check crime against women during the festival beginning on Monday.

The instruction, apart from mandatory installation of CCTVs and ensuring facilities to avoid any disaster during the celebrations were given to the committees.

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Woman gang-raped by nine persons in Rangia, three arrested, six still at large

A woman was allegedly gang raped by nine persons at Rangia in Kamrup district of Assam, police said today.

The woman was allegedly kidnapped and gang raped by the culprits when she was went to visit a friend’s home at the place, police added.

Three persons, identified as Pankaj Das, Nareswar Das and Trilok Das, were arrested by police. Other six culprits are currently absconding.

Police has formed several teams to nab the other six accused.

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Friday, 9 October 2015

Crackdown continues against errant city buses in Guwahati

The district transport office (DTO) of Kamrup (Metro) has again launched an operation against city buses that violate safety rules and other traffic guidelines. Temporary check-points were put up in Basistha road where all the vehicles passing thorough were examined.

"We have seized several city buses for various reasons. Some of them did not have proper first-aid boxes and some vehicles were unfit to be driven. We also booked drivers without valid driving licenses," DTO officials said.

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