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Plus Quiz, Poems, My Viewpoint, Little Hearts, Comics and other features. Diesel price NEW DELHI, June 24: Diesel price for the first time crossed the petrol price in Delhi today when prices were raised for 18th day in a row. Petrol price was unchanged after 17 consecutive hikes, while diesel rates were up by 48 paise per litre across the country. – PTI HS results GUWAHATI, June 24: The AHSEC will announce the HS final year exam results tomorrow digitally through the council’s official website www.ahsec.nic.in and 13 other websites. This year 2.34 lakh students have appeared in the exam. – Staff Reporter Panels formed NEW DELHI, June 24: The Ministry of Environment and Forest today constituted the Environment Impact Assessment Authority, Assam. The State-level Expert Appraisal Committee was also formed. – Spl Correspondent First stage of community transmission: Pijush COVID-19 situation in Guwahati deteriorates STAFF REPORTER GUWAHATI, June 24: From banks to malls, to pri- vate hospitals and apart- ments – COVID-19 cases continued to be detected from across Guwahati, prompting the Health De- partment to admit on Wednesday that the city was in grip of the first stage of community transmission of the virus. During the day, 226 new COVID-19 cases were de- tected in the State taking the tally to 6282. The State Bank of India was forced to close down four of its branches – New Guwa- hati, Fancy Bazar, Lokhra LCPC branch and Khanapara – after detection of positive cases. Fourteen have tested positive in the SBI’s LCPC branch at Lokhra and six at the Fancy Bazar branch. “One floor of the SBI local head office at Dispur was also sealed after an employee test- ed positive. The branches are being sanitized and they should resume operations from Monday. All the prima- ry contacts of the patients are being tested,” an official said. A staff of the PWD NH of- fice at Chandmari has also test- ed positive. An electrician of Nemcare Hospital has also tested positive, but hospital authorities said he was at home for the last few days and there was no chance of the transmission in the hospital from him. An employee of the North East Small Finance Bank has also tested positive. Three of his primary contacts have been quarantined and his of- fice cabin sealed. “The office is being sanitized following all disaster management proto- cols,” a bank official said. “Yesterday, of the total 203 cases detected in the State, 102 were from Guwahati alone which is a dangerous sign. We urge people to avoid travelling to Guwahati unless it is essential. Those in the city should remain at home as much as possible,” Minis- ter of State for Health Pijush Hazarika told reporters. He admitted that the spike was an indication of the first stage of community transmis- sion as cases were being de- tected “anywhere and every- where”. The Minister also indicated that more wards may be locked down if the need aris- es. The State government had imposed a complete lockdown in 11 of the 31 wards in Guwa- hati from 9 pm of Tuesday. State has immense potential to attract US investments: Kota R DUTTA CHOUDHURY GUWAHATI, June 24: As- sam has immense potential to attract investments from America in several key sec- tors, while, the Act East Pol- icy can also help the entire North East region to become an attractive destination for investors, said senior IAS of- ficer, Ravi Kota, who has been appointed as the Minister India’s investment climate. The Department also deals with the issues relating to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Only three Indian Embassies have such posts and the other two plac- es apart from USA are Lon- don and Tokyo. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Kota, who is now working with the 15th Fi- nance Commission and is (Economic) in the Indian Embassy in Washington. Kota is an Assam cadre IAS officer. The Minister (Economic) in the Indian Embassy in the USA heads the department and represents the Finance Ministry in the United States. The Economic Department in USA deals with finance, monetary and investment is- sues of India and USA and provides information about scheduled to join his new as- signment next month, said that as he is well versed with the condition and opportuni- ties in Assam, he would not require special briefing from the State Government to create awareness about the investment potential in As- sam among the potential in- vestors from the USA. NEW DELHI, June 24: The country saw the highest single-day jump of 15,968 COVID-19 cases and 465 fa- talities, taking the infection tally to 4,56,183 and the death toll to 14,476, according to the Union Health Ministry data. India registered over 14,000 cases for the fifth day in a row and witnessed a surge of 2,65,648 infections from June 1 till June 24, with Ma- harashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh remaining the top five con- tributors to the rising tally. The number of active cas- Record single-day spike of 15,968 COVID-19 cases in India RITURAJ BORTHAKUR GUWAHATI, June 24: The tea industry is heading for a major crisis in the face of heavy crop loss during the season. The Tea Association of India (TAI) estimates that the crop loss for the period March-June this year is likely to be approx- imately 132 million kilograms in North India (Assam and West Bengal). Out of this estimated decline, orthodox production is expect- ed to drop by 12-14 million kil- ograms. The export levels are also likely to witness a drop by 10-15 per cent at around 225 million kilograms. While the crop loss up to NEW DELHI, June 24: In- dia and China on Wednesday agreed to ensure expeditious implementation of the under- standing on disengagement of troops from eastern Ladakh as decided in a meeting of senior military commanders on June 6, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The two sides held diplo- matic talks through video conference on the border standoff in midst of fresh de- tails emerging that China has strengthened its position in several areas in eastern La- dakh including Galwan Valley where a violent clash on June 15 left 20 Indian soldiers dead. People aware of the devel- opment said China has signif- icantly ramped up its military presence in several other key sectors along the Line of Ac- tual Control in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Uttara- India, China hold talks to ease border tension khand. In a statement after the dip- lomatic talks, the MEA said the situation in eastern Lada- kh was discussed in detail and that the Indian side conveyed its concerns over the violent face-off in Galwan Valley. “In this regard, it was em- phasised that both sides should strictly respect and observe the Line of Actual Control,” it said. The MEA said the two sides recalled the conversa- tion between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi last week, and reaffirmed that the understanding reached during military talks on June 6 on disengagement and de- escalation should be imple- mented “sincerely” “The two delegations agreed that implementation of this understanding expe- STAFF REPORTER GUWAHATI, June 24: The flood situation in the State worsened today with five upper Assam districts bearing the brunt of the sec- ond wave that has claimed one more life in Sivasagar. With this a total of 14 per- sons have died in the flood this year, including three in the second wave. Significant- ly, all three fatalities in the second wave of flood have been reported from Sivasa- gar district. In the past 24 hours, the flood has affected a huge pop- ulation and more than 5,000 hectares of crop lands in the districts of Dhemaji, Jorhat, ditiously, in accordance with the bilateral agreements and protocols, would help ensure peace and tranquillity in bor- der areas and the develop- ment of broader relationship between the two countries,” the MEA said. The talks were held be- tween Joint Secretary (East Asia) in the Ministry of Ex- ternal Affairs Naveen Srivas- tava and Director General in the Chinese Ministry of For- eign Affairs Wu Jianghao. The MEA said the two sides also agreed to maintain communication both at dip- lomatic and military levels including to resolve the ex- isting situation peacefully. The talks took place two days after Chinese and Indian armies arrived at a “mutual consensus” to “disengage” from all the friction points in eastern Ladakh. – PTI Flood situation in State worsens Death toll mounts to 14 Majuli, Sivasagar and Dibru- garh, the daily report of the Assam State Disaster Man- agement Authority stated. A good number of affected people are taking shelter in 27 relief camps spread across the districts. The flood report further said that the Brahmaputra riv- er has been flowing above the danger level in Jorhat and Dhu- bri districts. Its tributaries Dikhow and Disang in Sivasa- gar district, Dhansiri in Gola- ghat district and Jia Bharali in Sonitpur district are also flow- ing above the danger level. Moreover, flood-trig- gered incidents of erosion have also been reported from Golaghat district. Court issues arrest warrant against Garga STAFF REPORTER GUWAHATI, June 24: The subdivisional judicial magis- trate of Kamrup (Metro) on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against Kolkata-based political commentator Garga Chatterjee who had made of- fensive remarks on Swar- gadeo Chaolung Siu-Ka-Pha on social media. The court instructed the of- ficer-in-charge of Chetla police station in Kolkata to arrest the accused person and produce him before the court on or be- fore July 3. It also directed Kolkata Police Commissioner to execute the warrant of ar- rest against Chatterjee and ensure his production before the court at the earliest. Earlier, an Assam Police team that left for Kolkata to arrest Chatterjee returned empty-handed on Tuesday due to “lack of cooperation” from the local police stations of West Bengal. After Chatterjee’s deroga- tory remarks on Chaolung Siu- Ka-Pha several organisations in the State had filed FIRs against him demanding his im- mediate arrest. es stands at 1,83,022, while 2,58,684 people have recov- ered and one patient has mi- grated, according to the up- dated figures at 8 am. “Thus, around 56.71 per cent patients have recovered so far,” an official said. The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 73,52,911 samples have been tested up to June 23 with 2,15,195 samples being test- ed on Tuesday. Of the 465 new deaths re- ported till Wednesday morn- ing, 248 were in Maharash- tra, 68 in Delhi, 39 in Tamil Nadu, 26 in Gujarat, 19 in Uttar Pradesh, 11 in West Bengal, nine each in Rajas- than and Haryana, eight each in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, four each in Punjab and Madhya Pradesh, three in Telangana, two each in Jam- mu and Kashmir, Odisha and Uttarakhand. June is 32 per cent, auction ar- rivals are lower by 59 per cent. “These are grim pointers to the health of the industry as less of crop translates to more overheads in term of fixed cost. The crop and market out- look for the tea industry at this point of the season looks bleak, in the aftermath of prolonged period of lockdown,” TAI pres- ident Raj Bansal said. “The industry is heading for a major crisis because loss suf- fered in terms of crop till date and the prospects of recoup- ing in the coming months is difficult on the face of massive rainfall reported from North Indian tea growing regions, both in Assam and West Ben- gal,” he added. The rainfall of above 400 mm in the month of May (100 mm more than the corre- sponding period of 2019) is bound to impact the availabil- ity of crop in the coming months, the planters associa- tion felt. “The tea industry in North India now has to face the twin challenge of how it meet and balance production targets while managing operation of the gardens in the face of addi- tional operative costs in cop- ing with challenges posed in combating COVID-19,” in- dustry sources said. Tea industry stares at heavy crop loss SEE PAGE 6 SEE PAGE 6 SEE PAGE 6 A bridge on the Doomdooma-Baghjan road washed away by floods, on Wednesday. – Photo: Abhijit Khataniar A security personnel maintaining vigil in Machkhowa area of Guwahati on Wednesday to ensure lockdown. – UB Photos
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PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM GUWAHATI & DIBRUGARH
Diesel price for the firsttime crossed the petrolprice in Delhi today whenprices were raised for 18thday in a row. Petrol pricewas unchanged after 17consecutive hikes, whilediesel rates were up by 48paise per litre across thecountry. – PTI
HS resultsGUWAHATI, June 24:
The AHSEC will announcethe HS final year examresults tomorrow digitallythrough the council’s officialwebsite www.ahsec.nic.inand 13 other websites. Thisyear 2.34 lakh studentshave appeared in the exam.– Staff Reporter
Panels formedNEW DELHI, June 24:
The Ministry ofEnvironment and Foresttoday constituted theEnvironment ImpactAssessment Authority,Assam. The State-levelExpert Appraisal Committeewas also formed. – SplCorrespondent
First stage of communitytransmission: Pijush
COVID-19 situation in Guwahati deteriorates
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI, June 24:From banks to malls, to pri-vate hospitals and apart-ments – COVID-19 casescontinued to be detectedfrom across Guwahati,prompting the Health De-partment to admit onWednesday that the citywas in grip of the first stageof community transmissionof the virus.
During the day, 226 new
COVID-19 cases were de-
tected in the State taking the
tally to 6282.
The State Bank of India
was forced to close down four
of its branches – New Guwa-
hati, Fancy Bazar, Lokhra
LCPC branch and Khanapara
– after detection of positive
cases. Fourteen have tested
positive in the SBI’s LCPC
branch at Lokhra and six at
the Fancy Bazar branch.
“One floor of the SBI local
head office at Dispur was also
sealed after an employee test-
ed positive. The branches are
being sanitized and they
should resume operations
from Monday. All the prima-
ry contacts of the patients are
being tested,” an official said.
A staff of the PWD NH of-
fice at Chandmari has also test-
ed positive. An electrician of
Nemcare Hospital has also
tested positive, but hospital
authorities said he was at
home for the last few days and
there was no chance of the
transmission in the hospital
from him.
An employee of the North
East Small Finance Bank has
also tested positive. Three of
his primary contacts have
been quarantined and his of-
fice cabin sealed. “The office
is being sanitized following all
disaster management proto-
cols,” a bank official said.
“Yesterday, of the total 203
cases detected in the State,
102 were from Guwahati
alone which is a dangerous
sign. We urge people to avoid
travelling to Guwahati unless
it is essential. Those in the
city should remain at home
as much as possible,” Minis-
ter of State for Health Pijush
Hazarika told reporters.
He admitted that the spike
was an indication of the first
stage of community transmis-
sion as cases were being de-
tected “anywhere and every-
where”.
The Minister also indicated
that more wards may be
locked down if the need aris-
es. The State government had
imposed a complete lockdown
in 11 of the 31 wards in Guwa-
hati from 9 pm of Tuesday.
State has immense potential toattract US investments: Kota
R DUTTA CHOUDHURY
GUWAHATI, June 24: As-
sam has immense potential to
attract investments from
America in several key sec-
tors, while, the Act East Pol-
icy can also help the entire
North East region to become
an attractive destination for
investors, said senior IAS of-
ficer, Ravi Kota, who has been
appointed as the Minister
India’s investment climate.
The Department also deals
with the issues relating to the
World Bank and International
Monetary Fund. Only three
Indian Embassies have such
posts and the other two plac-
es apart from USA are Lon-
don and Tokyo.
Talking to The Assam
Tribune, Kota, who is now
working with the 15th Fi-
nance Commission and is
(Economic) in the Indian
Embassy in Washington. Kota
is an Assam cadre IAS officer.
The Minister (Economic)
in the Indian Embassy in the
USA heads the department
and represents the Finance
Ministry in the United States.
The Economic Department
in USA deals with finance,
monetary and investment is-
sues of India and USA and
provides information about
scheduled to join his new as-
signment next month, said
that as he is well versed with
the condition and opportuni-
ties in Assam, he would not
require special briefing from
the State Government to
create awareness about the
investment potential in As-
sam among the potential in-
vestors from the USA.
NEW DELHI, June 24:
The country saw the highest
single-day jump of 15,968
COVID-19 cases and 465 fa-
talities, taking the infection
tally to 4,56,183 and the death
toll to 14,476, according to the
Union Health Ministry data.
India registered over
14,000 cases for the fifth day
in a row and witnessed a surge
of 2,65,648 infections from
June 1 till June 24, with Ma-
harashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu,
Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh
remaining the top five con-
tributors to the rising tally.
The number of active cas-
Record single-day spike of 15,968COVID-19 cases in India
RITURAJ BORTHAKUR
GUWAHATI, June 24: The
tea industry is heading for a
major crisis in the face of heavy
crop loss during the season.
The Tea Association of India
(TAI) estimates that the crop
loss for the period March-June
this year is likely to be approx-
imately 132 million kilograms
in North India (Assam and
West Bengal).
Out of this estimated decline,
orthodox production is expect-
ed to drop by 12-14 million kil-
ograms. The export levels are
also likely to witness a drop by
10-15 per cent at around 225
million kilograms.
While the crop loss up to
NEW DELHI, June 24: In-
dia and China on Wednesday
agreed to ensure expeditious
implementation of the under-
standing on disengagement of
troops from eastern Ladakh
as decided in a meeting of
senior military commanders
on June 6, the Ministry of
External Affairs said.
The two sides held diplo-
matic talks through video
conference on the border
standoff in midst of fresh de-
tails emerging that China has
strengthened its position in
several areas in eastern La-
dakh including Galwan Valley
where a violent clash on June
15 left 20 Indian soldiers dead.
People aware of the devel-
opment said China has signif-
icantly ramped up its military
presence in several other key
sectors along the Line of Ac-
tual Control in Arunachal
Pradesh, Sikkim and Uttara-
India, China hold talks toease border tension
khand.
In a statement after the dip-
lomatic talks, the MEA said
the situation in eastern Lada-
kh was discussed in detail and
that the Indian side conveyed
its concerns over the violent
face-off in Galwan Valley.
“In this regard, it was em-
phasised that both sides
should strictly respect and
observe the Line of Actual
Control,” it said.
The MEA said the two
sides recalled the conversa-
tion between External Affairs
Minister S Jaishankar and his
Chinese counterpart Wang Yi
last week, and reaffirmed that
the understanding reached
during military talks on June
6 on disengagement and de-
escalation should be imple-
mented “sincerely”
“The two delegations
agreed that implementation
of this understanding expe-
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI, June 24:
The flood situation in the
State worsened today with
five upper Assam districts
bearing the brunt of the sec-
ond wave that has claimed
one more life in Sivasagar.
With this a total of 14 per-
sons have died in the flood
this year, including three in
the second wave. Significant-
ly, all three fatalities in the
second wave of flood have
been reported from Sivasa-
gar district.
In the past 24 hours, the
flood has affected a huge pop-
ulation and more than 5,000
hectares of crop lands in the
districts of Dhemaji, Jorhat,
ditiously, in accordance with
the bilateral agreements and
protocols, would help ensure
peace and tranquillity in bor-
der areas and the develop-
ment of broader relationship
between the two countries,”
the MEA said.
The talks were held be-
tween Joint Secretary (East
Asia) in the Ministry of Ex-
ternal Affairs Naveen Srivas-
tava and Director General in
the Chinese Ministry of For-
eign Affairs Wu Jianghao.
The MEA said the two
sides also agreed to maintain
communication both at dip-
lomatic and military levels
including to resolve the ex-
isting situation peacefully.
The talks took place two
days after Chinese and Indian
armies arrived at a “mutual
consensus” to “disengage”
from all the friction points in
eastern Ladakh. – PTI
Flood situation inState worsensDeath toll mounts to 14
Majuli, Sivasagar and Dibru-
garh, the daily report of the
Assam State Disaster Man-
agement Authority stated.
A good number of affected
people are taking shelter in
27 relief camps spread across
the districts.
The flood report further
said that the Brahmaputra riv-
er has been flowing above the
danger level in Jorhat and Dhu-
bri districts. Its tributaries
Dikhow and Disang in Sivasa-
gar district, Dhansiri in Gola-
ghat district and Jia Bharali in
Sonitpur district are also flow-
ing above the danger level.
Moreover, flood-trig-
gered incidents of erosion
have also been reported
from Golaghat district.
Court issuesarrest warrantagainst Garga
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI, June 24: The
subdivisional judicial magis-
trate of Kamrup (Metro) on
Wednesday issued an arrest
warrant against Kolkata-based
political commentator Garga
Chatterjee who had made of-
fensive remarks on Swar-
gadeo Chaolung Siu-Ka-Pha
on social media.
The court instructed the of-
ficer-in-charge of Chetla police
station in Kolkata to arrest the
accused person and produce
him before the court on or be-
fore July 3. It also directed
Kolkata Police Commissioner
to execute the warrant of ar-
rest against Chatterjee and
ensure his production before
the court at the earliest.
Earlier, an Assam Police
team that left for Kolkata to
arrest Chatterjee returned
empty-handed on Tuesday
due to “lack of cooperation”
from the local police stations
of West Bengal.
After Chatterjee’s deroga-
tory remarks on Chaolung Siu-
Ka-Pha several organisations
in the State had filed FIRs
against him demanding his im-
mediate arrest.
es stands at 1,83,022, while
2,58,684 people have recov-
ered and one patient has mi-
grated, according to the up-
dated figures at 8 am.
“Thus, around 56.71 per
cent patients have recovered
so far,” an official said. The
total number of confirmed
cases include foreigners.
According to the Indian
Council of Medical Research
(ICMR), a cumulative total of
73,52,911 samples have been
tested up to June 23 with
2,15,195 samples being test-
ed on Tuesday.
Of the 465 new deaths re-
ported till Wednesday morn-
ing, 248 were in Maharash-
tra, 68 in Delhi, 39 in Tamil
Nadu, 26 in Gujarat, 19 in
Uttar Pradesh, 11 in West
Bengal, nine each in Rajas-
than and Haryana, eight each
in Karnataka and Andhra
Pradesh, four each in Punjab
and Madhya Pradesh, three
in Telangana, two each in Jam-
mu and Kashmir, Odisha and
Uttarakhand.
June is 32 per cent, auction ar-
rivals are lower by 59 per cent.
“These are grim pointers to
the health of the industry as
less of crop translates to more
overheads in term of fixed
cost. The crop and market out-
look for the tea industry at this
point of the season looks bleak,
in the aftermath of prolonged
period of lockdown,” TAI pres-
ident Raj Bansal said.
“The industry is heading for
a major crisis because loss suf-
fered in terms of crop till date
and the prospects of recoup-
ing in the coming months is
difficult on the face of massive
rainfall reported from North
Indian tea growing regions,
both in Assam and West Ben-
gal,” he added.
The rainfall of above 400
mm in the month of May (100
mm more than the corre-
sponding period of 2019) is
bound to impact the availabil-
ity of crop in the coming
months, the planters associa-
tion felt.
“The tea industry in North
India now has to face the twin
challenge of how it meet and
balance production targets
while managing operation of
the gardens in the face of addi-
tional operative costs in cop-
ing with challenges posed in
combating COVID-19,” in-
dustry sources said.
Tea industry stares atheavy crop loss
SEE PAGE 6
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A bridge on the Doomdooma-Baghjan road washed away byfloods, on Wednesday. – Photo: Abhijit Khataniar
A security personnel maintaining vigil in Machkhowa area of Guwahati on Wednesday to ensure lockdown. – UB Photos
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and 23 during which the “twosides agreed to take measuresto de-escalate the situation andjointly promote peace and tran-quility.” – PTI
China calls for peace alongborder, but blames India
MOSCOW, June 24: Defence Minis-
ter Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said that
he was proud that a contingent of the
Indian Armed Forces was participating
in the 75th Anniversary of Victory Day
Parade here.
Singh arrived here on a three-day visit
on Tuesday at the invitation of the Russian
Ministry of Defence to attend the 75th An-
niversary of Victory Day Parade.
“Attending the Victory Day Parade at Red
Square in Moscow today to commemorate
the 75th Anniversary of Victory of the So-
viet People in the great Patriotic War of 1941-
1945,” Singh tweeted on Wednesday.
“I am proud that a Tri-Service contin-
gent of the Indian Armed Forces is also par-
ticipating in this parade,” he tweeted.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singhattends V-Day Parade in Russia
Pictures showed that social distancing
being maintained at the Red Square where
the parade will take place.
“Impressive turnout of the Tri-Service
contingent of the Indian Armed Forces at
the Victory Day Parade in Moscow is in-
deed an extremely proud and happy mo-
ment for me,” Singh tweeted.
The Tri-service 75-member Indian mil-
itary contingent is participating in the pa-
rade. The Indian team is participating along-
side armed forces personnel from at least
11 countries, including China.
On Tuesday, he called on Russian Deputy
Prime Minister Yury Borisov and the two
leaders held discussions on the bilateral
relationship, regional issues, and reviewed
the India-Russia defence cooperation. – PTI
MOSCOW, June 24: The
Arctic is feverish and on fire –
at least parts of it are. And
that’s got scientists worried
about what it means for the
rest of the world.
The thermometer hit a like-
ly record of 38 degrees Celsius
(100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in
the Russian Arctic town of
Verkhoyansk on Saturday, a
temperature that would be a
fever for a person but this is
Siberia, known for being frozen.
The World Meteorological
Organization said on Tuesday
that it’s looking to verify the tem-
perature reading, which would
be unprecedented for the region
north of the Arctic Circle.
“The Arctic is figuratively
and literally on fire,” it’s
warming much faster than we
thought it would in response
to rising levels of carbon diox-
ide and other greenhouse gas-
es in the atmosphere, and this
warming is leading to a rapid
meltdown and increase in wild-
fires, University of Michigan
environmental school dean
Jonathan Overpeck, a climate
scientist, said in an email.
“The record warming in Si-
beria is a warning sign of major
proportions,” Overpeck wrote.
Much of Siberia had high
temperatures this year that
were beyond unseasonably
warm. From January through
May, the average temperature
in north-central Siberia has
been about 8 degrees Celsius
(14 degrees Fahrenheit)
above average, according to
the climate science non-profit
Berkeley Earth.
“That’s much, much warm-
er than it’s ever been over that
region in that period of time,”
Berkeley Earth climate scien-
tist Zeke Hausfather said.
Siberia is in the Guinness
Book of World Records for its
extreme temperatures. It’s a
place where the thermometer
has swung 106 degrees Cel-
sius (190 degrees Fahrenheit),
from a low of minus 68 degrees
Celsius (minus 90 Fahrenheit)
to now 38 degrees Celsius
(100.4 Fahrenheit). – AP
The Arctic is on fire:Siberian heat wavealarms scientists
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI 3
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Army Chief Manoj Mukund Naravane interacts with the troops while reviewing operational preparedness on the groundafter the standoff in the region during his visit in eastern Ladakh, on Wednesday. – PTI
Jamiat hails Saudi govt’s decision
to hold Haj with ‘limited people’NEW DELHI, June 24: Prominent Muslim body Jamiat
Ulema-e-Hind on Wednesday hailed Saudi Arabia’s decision
to go ahead with Haj 2020 with a limited number of people,
saying it has come as a relief for Muslims who were fearing
that it will be altogether suspended in the wake of the COV-
ID-19 pandemic.
In a statement, Jamiat chief Maulana Arshad Madani said
after health experts advised people not to gather in one place,
the Saudi government had to take this decision, which has
removed the fears in the hearts of the people regarding Haj
being suspended. – PTI
BMC to procure one lakhantigen testing kits
MUMBAI, June 24: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corpo-
ration will purchase one lakh antigen testing kits to ensure
speedy results for suspected COVID-19 patients, an official
said on Wednesday.
According to a release issued on Tuesday, the civic body has
initiated Mission Universal Testing, under which it will use
ICMR-approved antigen testing kits that provide results with-
in 15 to 30 minutes.
These kits will be used at all civic, state-run hospitals and
COVID-19 treatment facilities to test suspected patients and
ensure timely treatment, the release stated. At present, RT-
PCR tests are being used to detect infections, but the results
of antigen tests will be comparatively faster, the civic body
said. – PTI
Finalise formation of over 1 lakhvirus screening teams: UP CM
LUCKNOW, June 24: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath on Wednesday directed officials to finalise the for-
mation of over one lakh screening teams to check the corona-
virus spread.
“Medical screening is very important to check the spread
of coronavirus. The constitution of over one lakh screening
teams should be finalised after training,” the CM said at re-
view meeting with official here.
According to an official statement, the CM said pulse oxi-
meters and infrared thermometers should be made available
to the screening teams and adequate protection like gloves,
mask and sanitizer should also be provided to them. – PTI
MUMBAI, June 24: Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused
in the Sheena Bora murder case, has filed a plea in a special
CBI court here seeking interim bail citing the risk of contract-
ing coronavirus. She is currently lodged in the Byculla wom-
en’s prison in central Mumbai.
The court had earlier rejected her four regular bail applica-
tions filed on medical grounds, while another one moved on
the merits of the case is still pending.
In her latest plea filed on Tuesday, Mukerjea sought tempo-
rary bail for 45 days citing the coronavirus outbreak and her
medical history. The application said that she has suffered from
blackouts time and again and has been on medication. – PTI
Telangana govt issues orders forpayment of full salaries from JuneHYDERABAD, June 24: The Telangana government on
Wednesday issued orders giving effect to the decision for
payment of full salaries to its employees and pension payout
from June, nearly three months after it effected a cut.
On March 30, the government had announced a 75 per cent
cut in salaries of the Chief Minister, State Cabinet members,
MLAs and others, besides 60 per cent for IAS, IPS and other
such Central service officers due to the COVID-19 pandemic
adversely impacting the State’s economy. The cut was 10 per
cent for Class IV, outsourcing and contract employees and 50
per cent for all categories of pensioners. “Orders and instruc-
tions, vis-a-vis payment of arrears, if any, will be issued sepa-
rately,” the Government Order added.– PTI
3,788 fresh COVID-19 cases inDelhi take tally to over 70K
NEW DELHI, June 24: Delhi recorded 3,788 fresh corona-
virus cases on Wednesday, taking the tally in the city over the
70,000-mark, while the death toll from the disease climbed to
2,365, authorities said.
On Tuesday, the city reported the highest single-day spike
till now of 3,947 cases. From Friday-Sunday, 3,000 or more
fresh cases were being reported per day in the national capi-
tal. On Monday, 2,909 cases were recorded.
Sixty-four fatalities have been recorded in the last 24 hours,
the Delhi health department bulletin said on Wednesday.
The death toll from COVID-19 in Delhi stood at 2,301 on
Tuesday. The bulletin said the death toll from coronavirus
infection has risen to 2,365 and the total number of cases
mounted to 70,390. – PTI
Corona Snippets
NEW DELHI, June 24: In a
significant statement, BJP gen-
eral secretary Ram Madhav
reiterated India’s claim to Ak-
sai Chin as its own, amid ris-
ing India-China tensions.
He said on Wednesday that
India must show the same as-
sertiveness on the Line of Ac-
tual Control with China as it
has shown on the Line of Con-
trol with Pakistan, simply to
protect its “self respect” and
defend its land “till the last
inch”.
Madhav said the solution to
the present standoff is active-
ly engaging with China both
diplomatically and militarily.
Madhav reiterates India’s claim to Aksai Chin as its ownThe BJP leader was speaking
at an event on the India-China
border issue organised by RSS
mouthpiece Organiser.
“Our claim is not just the
LAC. Our claim goes beyond
that. When it comes to J&K, it
includes PoK (Pakistan-occu-
pied Kashmir) and when it
comes to the UT of Ladakh, it
includes Gilgit-Baltistan and
Aksai Chin,” asserted Ram
Madhav, who is often seen as
the BJP’s face when it comes
to foreign relations.
However, Madhav stressed
India does not want to wage a
war with China. But India’s
assertiveness on its side of the
LAC is required to “protect
its self respect”.
Madhav added that India will
have to defend its land till the
last inch.
He also accepted that China
as we see today is more ag-
gressive. But he claimed that
an aggressive China today is
the result of an “assertive In-
dia”.
The BJP general secretary
claimed that China by nature
never wanted to settle a bor-
der dispute. That was the rea-
son it refused to insert the
word “existing” in a mutual
agreement when PV Narasim-
ha Rao was Prime Minister.
Madhav also blamed the ris-
ing Chinese aggression on past
political responses. “We want-
ed peace every time,” said the
BJP leader.
He listed that be it Rajiv Gan-
dhi in 1988, Narasimha Rao in
1993 or Deve Gowda or UPA
government, “All tried to make
peace with China only to be
betrayed by the dragon.”
The senior BJP leader said
the solution is to engage with
China diplomatically while be-
ing militarily assertive to de-
fend India’s land. “India will
take a firm position on ground.
We will fight for our self re-
spect,” he remarked.
Madhav also took potshots
at the Congress party to sug-
gest it has been undoing efforts
by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi vis-a-vis China.
RSS’s Ram Lal, who made
an introductory speech, made
an even more serious political
charge. “There are elements
in this country who seem to
be playing into the hands of
China. They are destroying the
morale of our forces,” he al-
leged, without naming the
Congress.
This strong assertion
comes in the wake of 20 In-
dian Army men, including an
officer, being killed on Mon-
day night during a violent
face-off with Chinese Peo-
ple’s Liberation Army troops
at Galwan Valley in eastern
Ladakh region.
These are the first casual-
ties faced by the Indian Army
in a clash with the Chinese
PLA since 1975 when an In-
dian patrol was ambushed by
Chinese troops in Arunachal
Pradesh.
Following this, Prime Min-
ister Modi sent out a clear sig-
nal to China, saying that India
won’t tolerate misadventure
when it comes to defending
its sovereignty and territori-
al integrity. – IANS
NEW DELHI, June 24:
Over 73.5 lakh samples have
been tested for COVID-19 till
June 23, of which 2.15 lakh
were examined on Tuesday,
the highest in a day since the
beginning of the pandemic,
ICMR officials said on
Wednesday.
The apex health research
body on Tuesday validated
the 1,000th testing laborato-
ry, ramping up the capacity
for detection of COVID-19 in
the country. Currently, three
lakh samples can be tested
per day, an official said.
“A cumulative total of
73,52,911 samples have been
tested up to June 23, with
2,15,195 samples being test-
ed on Tuesday,” the ICMR
said.
Of the 1,000 COVID-19
testing laboratories, 730 are
in government setups, while
270 are in the private sector.
This includes RT-PCR labs
(557), TrueNat Labs (363)
and CBNAAT Labs (80).
“However, in spite of
these developments, access
to testing still remains a huge
challenge in a large country
like India. There is a definite
need to increase the outreach
of testing by introducing rapid
point of care diagnostic
tests,” the ICMR noted in its
advisory issued on Tuesday.
Also, there is value in con-
ducting serosurvey with
IgG-based antibody tests in
certain situations, it said.
In view of this, it is now
suggested to include addi-
tional testing methods to
improve access and availabil-
NEW DELHI, June 24: The Indo-Ti-
betan Border Police on Wednesday took
over a 10,000 bed capacity COVID-19
care centre in Delhi, officials said.
A team of officials from the border
guarding force visited the Radha Soami
Beas facility and held discussions with
the Delhi government and other stake-
holders who will be partners in running
the centre.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah had
on Tuesday said the centre has been
entrusted to the Indo-Tibetan Border
Police (ITBP).
“The force took over the COVID-19
care centre at Radha Soami Beas in Chat-
BHADERWAH (J&K), June 24: Union
Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday e-in-
augurated ‘Puneja Bridge’ on the strategical-
ly important under construction Bhaderwah-
Basholi-Pathankot National Highway in Jam-
mu and Kashmir’s Doda district.
The 50-metre-span bridge over Puneja
stream, 10 km from Bhadarwah town on the
highway, was built by 114 RCC of the Border
Roads Organisation (BRO) in 36 months at an
estimated cost of Rs 409.25 lakh, officials said.
They said the completion of the bridge
would facilitate the widening of the road at a
rapid pace and would also pave the way to
move heavy machinery which are required
for the construction of the proposed Chatta-
gala tunnel on this road.
Singh, the Minister of State in the Prime
Minister’s Office, addressed the gathering
through video-conference from Delhi after
the e-inauguration of the bridge.
He said, “Despite the lockdown, we made
it sure that the developmental works should
not get affected in Doda district and there
should be no paucity of labour to continue the
NEW DELHI, June 24: A
plea has been moved in the
Supreme Court seeking di-
rections to the NIA/CBI to
investigate the 2008 agree-
ment between the Indian Na-
tional Congress (INC) and
the Communist Party of Chi-
na (CPC) for exchanging
high-level information and for
cooperation between them.
The plea has been moved
by advocate Shashank Shek-
har Jha and Editor-in-Chief of
Goa Chronicle, Savio Rod-
rigues. The petitioners argued
that despite having a hostile re-
Over 73.5 lakh COVIDsamples tested till
June 23: ICMRity of testing in various parts
of the country, the health re-
search body said.
The real-time RT-PCR is
the gold standard test for de-
tecting cases of COVID-19
and the average time taken
is around 4-5 hours from re-
ceipt of sample to getting the
result.
“The advantage of this plat-
form lies in its accuracy of de-
tection as well as ability to
run up to 90 samples in a sin-
gle run. In view of the re-
quirement of a specialised
laboratory setup, this test
cannot be performed at eve-
ry district-level lab which
does not have molecular vi-
rology facilities,” the ICMR
said.
The TrueNat and the CB-
NAAT systems have also
been deployed for diagnosis
of COVID-19 in view of avail-
ability of customised car-
tridges.
These platforms have
widespread availability even
at district and primary health
centre levels as these are
widely used for diagnosis of
tuberculosis and other infec-
tious diseases. These plat-
forms have a quick turna-
round time (30-60 minutes)
but only one-four samples
can be tested in one run, lim-
iting the maximum number
that can be tested to 24-48
samples per day only, the
ICMR said.
The ICMR recently also
approved the use of rapid-an-
tigen test for coronavirus in-
fection that gives results in
30 minutes. – PTI
ITBP takes over largest COVID-19care centre in Delhi
tarpur, New Delhi on Wednesday.
“The home ministry had nominated
ITBP as the nodal agency to provide doc-
tors and team of other professionals to
this centre as requested by the Delhi
government,” an ITBP officer said.
It is expected that a 2,000 bed facility
will be operational at the centre from
June 26, another officer said.
The total bed capacity may go upto
10,200. This will be the largest COV-
ID-19 care centre in the National Capi-
tal as well as the country, he said.
More than 1,000 doctors of the ITBP
and other Central Armed Police Forces
(CAPFs) and 2,000 paramedics and se-
curity staff are expected to be deployed
at this facility, the officer said.
The south Delhi district administra-
tion will provide administrative support
to the centre, he said.
The ITBP was the first organisation
in the country to have created a 1,000
bed quarantine centre for coronavirus
affected people.
The centre in Chhawla area of south-
west Delhi has treated about 1,200 peo-
ple, including 42 foreigners who were
brought to India on special evacuation
flights from Wuhan in China and Italy,
after the COVID-19 outbreak few
months back. – PTI
PIL in SC seeks probe into 2008Congress-China agreement
lationship with China, the INC
had signed an agreement
when it was heading a coali-
tion government and had hid-
den the facts and details of the
agreement from the country.
The plea argued, “The pe-
titioners firmly believe that
the nation’s security cannot
and shouldn’t be compro-
mised by any one. Therefore,
this petition has been moved
under Article 32 of the Con-
stitution of Bharat, which
seeks to bring transparency
and clarity regarding the
agreement signed between
the Respondent No. 1 (INC)
and the Communist Party of
China which is also the de-
facto government of People’s
Republic of China.”
The petition pertains to an
agreement signed during
UPA rule on August 7, 2008,
between the INC and the
CPC in Beijing for exchang-
ing high-level information and
cooperation between them.
“The MoU also provided
the two parties with the op-
portunity to consult each oth-
er on important bilateral, re-
gional and international devel-
opments,” said the plea.
The plea, filed against the
INC and its leaders Sonia
Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, also
sought details of the agree-
ment as the Congress party
failed to be transparent on a
matter of national impor-
tance. “True spirit of liberty,
and fraternity could be
achieved through medium of
transparency and proper in-
vestigation and just judgment
which could be achieved only
if the agreement is investigat-
ed and secured by the NIA,”
said the plea. – IANS
Vital bridge on strategicPathankot highway completed
developmental activities.”
“Perhaps Doda is the only district in the
country where not one but three big tunnels
are being built; the tunnel at Kaljugasar will
connect the area with Chamba, while Sudma-
hadev and Chattargala tunnels on Bhaderwah-
Basholi-Pathankot Road will provide all weath-
er connectivity to Kashmir from Punjab,”
Singh, who represents Doda-Udhampur-
Kathua constituency in Parliament, said.
The 185-km-long Bhaderwah-Basholi-
Pathankot highway, besides having a strategic
importance for defence, will also provide a
vital alternate link to connect Kashmir with
the rest of the country through Doda, Kisht-
war and Ramban districts.
“The road is being widened to national high-
way specifications and the existing bridges
on the road are also being upgraded. There is
also proposal for construction of a tunnel at
Chattergala Pass (10,540-ft above the sea lev-
el) on this road to ensure the all-weather con-
nectivity to the Kashmir Valley from the Pun-
jab region,” Commander 35 Border Roads
Task Force of BRO H Murthy said. – PTI
4 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
MESSAGE FOR TODAY
Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
– JOHN WAYNE
Wisdom dawnsWith tensions being taken to the edge of a precipice,
fortunately wisdom appears to have dawned on India andChina in the backdrop of what had been the most seriousclash on the border between their respective armies inrecent times. After a high-level meeting at Moldo on theChinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), led byLieutenant General Harinder Singh, commander of theLeh-based 14 Corps for India, and Major General Liu Lin,commander of the South Xinjiang military region for China,both countries have agreed to disengage from all frictionareas in Ladakh. The protracted meeting, held in a cordialatmosphere, follows the brutal clash between the jawansof the Indian Army and soldiers of China’s People’s Liber-ation Army (PLA) in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley, when20 Indian Army men were killed. The Working Mecha-nism for Consultation and Coordination on India-ChinaBorder Affairs (WMCC), set up in August, 2018, duringthe official visit of Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fengheto India, which made feasible multiple contacts at field lev-el to tackle serious incidents of this type, is reported tohave been activated and has succeeded in the reductionof tensions. The agreement to disengage is an acknowl-edgement of the reality that neither China nor India wouldgain from prolonging the friction, especially at a time whenboth countries were in the middle of another battle againstthe Covid-19 pandemic.
It would have indeed been a pity if pragmatism hadgiven way to populism, especially considering that Chinaat the moment has been facing considerable flak over theway it handled the pandemic, and that deep anti-Chinasentiments are currently rife in India, with a segment ofthe latter’s people voicing its determination to boycottChina-made products. The political leadership of bothcountries have sensibly refrained from trying to makecapital of the situation, a course which might have hadunforeseen and adverse outcome. While advocacy ofusing only Made in India products may seem admirable,one must also bear in mind that in the context of globaliza-tion of economies and interlinking of trade, calls to boy-cott goods of any specific country might be counterpro-ductive due to two reasons. First, India will have to be-come self-sufficient in manufacturing the products cur-rently being imported from China, else there might be avacuum that would be detrimental to Indian consumers.Second, there are certain items of import which are ofinordinate necessity to the Indian economy and we wouldsuffer if China stops her exports to India. For instance,the thriving Indian pharmaceutical industry, which hasmade its mark worldwide for manufacturing good andaffordable medicines, depends on raw material importedfrom China to the range of 60% of its requirements, andwould be dealt a crippling blow if China decides to stopraw material exports altogether!
On a different trackDuring these unprecedented times when the Covid-
19 pandemic is wreaking havoc around the globe, theresumption of some top football leagues has certainly high-lighted the fact that football isn’t just a sport or a means tokeep people entertained during these testing times, butit’s also a business. On the other hand, cricket has seenits calendar going into disarray with the Indian PremierLeague (IPL) postponed and the T20 World Cup in Aus-tralia thrown into doubt by the pandemic. Despite all ofthese, the West Indies squad has landed in Manchesterrecently for the three-Test series and is now in quaran-tine practising for the cricketing challenges ahead. Theseries will be played in a ‘bio-secure’ environment in ex-traordinary circumstances, behind closed doors and un-der constant medical supervision. And, according to re-ports published in the media, the West Indies received a2.4-million-pound loan from the ECB before agreeing toplay this series. Starved of cricketing action, people inIndia too are now eagerly waiting for the fate of the cash-rich IPL. The much-awaited tournament took a hit whenit missed the April-May window, but with the T20 WorldCup looking unlikely to go ahead as scheduled, the IPLmay be organized in September-October. However, thequestion remains whether India would be able to host thetournament in the country when the coronavirus situa-tion is still critical? The Emirates Cricket Board as wellas Sri Lanka Cricket has expressed interest in hostingthe world’s richest cricket league but keeping the IPL inIndia remains the BCCI’s top priority. In all likelihoodeven if the IPL takes place, it will be without spectators.
Coming back to football, it was the Bundesliga in Germanywhich was the first among the top soccer leagues to returnto the stadia. For conducting the remaining eight games perteam to complete the league has around $800 million atstake. As far as the Premier League is concerned, to com-plete the remaining 92 matches, that could be about 40,000tests at a cost of about 30,000 pounds a week. These statis-tics only highlight the importance of the competition as wellas the monetary factor attached to the game. From sponsorsto television rights, these are some of the only remainingavenues for the clubs to earn in the absence of their fans instands. Such has been the impact of the pandemic that thebiggest sporting extravaganza on earth – the Olympics –had to be postponed till 2021. They were cancelled only forthe World Wars, in 1916, 1940 and 1944, and never post-poned. The Wimbledon Championships too were cancelledand this was the first time since World War II that the oldestGrand Slam tennis tournament isn’t being played. With somany changes to the rules and regulations, including theban on the use of saliva on a cricket ball to the wide gapamong players on the substitute benches, sports is certain-ly heading in a never-seen direction.
t is not the dreaded coronavi-rus or Covid-19 that placedChina at the centre stage. Chi-na, the ‘factory of the world’,
was already there and, in four dec-ades, had become the second larg-est economy. The virulent virus,which originated in Wuhan in theHubei province, has made China in-famous. It is too early to blame Chi-na or to absolve her of any wrongdo-ings. Of this, only time will tell. Pres-ently, the global community is to ad-here to scientific solutions as adviseduntil a vaccine is discovered.
The USA, China’s chief adver-sary, if we go by the recent stanceof its political head, had initiallytermed it as Chinese virus. Whenthe famous Israeli historian, YuvalNoah Harari called for a univer-sal, government-sponsoredhealthcare system to deal with thepandemic, the USA, as a singlelargest donor, retaliated by threat-ening to stop funds to the WHOaccusing it of its complicity withChina. Meanwhile, irrepressibleDonald Trump, basically a busi-nessman-turned-politician, contin-ues to take potshots at China andits leaders for the toll America isfacing currently due to the pan-demic that originated behind thebamboo curtain. Today, the USAhas the highest death figureamongst all countries, and with-out waiting for an ‘impartial en-quiry’ of the spread of the virus,has ‘terminated’ its relationshipwith the WHO.
No doubt China is emerging as aworld power but a serious allega-tion against it is that it has been ma-nipulating its currency so that goodsmade in China are cheap enough tocapture markets all around the globe.Yes, today it has a surplus balance ofpayments in contrast to the USAwho is wallowing in huge deficits.Some of the serious charges againstChina are lack of transparency, sup-pression of political rights, violationof human rights, expansionist actionsin the South China Sea and so on.
I
At the height of the Indo-Pak
conflict in December 1971, the
USA adopted a three-fold
strategy to corner India, stated
Bass. The dreaded Seventh
Fleet threat and the surreptitious
move to dispatch F-104s to
Pakistan through Iran and Jordan
despite a US Congress embargo
against sale of arms to Pakistan,
would pale in front of the request
to China to move its troops to the
northern border of India, in a deal
with a Chinese emissary at a
secret location in New York on
December 10, where Kissinger
was personally present.
Letters
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EDITOR
School dropout retention
Sir, – The latest Central reporthas revealed that Assam occupiesthe top position in school dropoutrate with 10.1% and 33.7% inprimary and secondary levelrespectively. In India the dropoutfigures vary from district to district.Experts opine that poverty,availability and accessibility are thethree big reasons why childrendrop out of school. They set manymeans in order to reduce schooldropout. Community participationis one of them. Local, social, andcultural factors play a major role inschool retention.
Jyoti Kendra, a flagship scheme,was launched in Assam in 2005-06by the Government for the upliftof school dropouts in the agegroup 7 to 16 years. As per areport published in the media, thescheme worked nicely up to theyear 2008-09 covering about40,000 such rural and urbanstudents. But it has become
Under its policy of ‘one nation twosystems’, Hong Kong is being bul-lied to undemocratic submission.However, a leaderless campaign isbravely resisting China’s strong-armtactics and reminding it of the prom-ises made earlier. It is intimidatingTaiwan to merge with the mainland.Illegal posturing on the northwest-ern and northeastern border of Indiahas become a ‘new normal’. In fine,has China replaced Russiaas the new enfant terribleof the West and the East?
As stated by Manfred BSteger, an influential writ-er on globalization, China,a great civilization with anillustrious history, discov-erer of many epoch-mak-ing technological innova-tions – paper, printing, gun-powder, compass, lavishlyembroidered silk fabrics,sophisticated metalwork-ing techniques, etc., sur-prisingly ‘halted overseasnavigation and mandated aretreat from further tech-nological development’ bythe 15th century. Leavingthe European powers to fillthe vacuum, China seemedto have waited for anotherfive hundred years to re-claim its past glory.
China by 1949 became acommunist country, thesecond most significant na-tion after the formation ofthe Soviet Union, to em-bark on an idea germinated by leg-endary thinker Karl Marx in the mid-19th century. The most populouscountry led by Mao Zedong defeat-ed the US-supported Kuomintang(the Chinese National Party led byChiang Kai-shek) and became animportant part of the Socialist Bloc.However, by the 1950s, Maoist doc-trine replaced Leninist thought. Theweaning away of China from the So-viet Bloc is an interesting recent po-litical history, scripted by the Nixon-Kissinger policies of the 70s.
Gary J Bass, professor of Politicsand International Affairs at Prince-ton University, in his gripping andwell-researched book The Blood Tel-
egram (2013), reveals the then de-sign of the USA which culminated inthe rise of China in the present time.It was astonishing that when in 1971,after denying Mujibur Rahman thelegitimate leadership of Pakistan de-spite a massive electoral victory andthe ‘Operation Searchlight’ atrocitieson the night of March 25, 1971 on
citizens of the then East Pakistan, theUS administration could not beroused by the repeated telegrams ofArcher Blood, the then United StatesConsul General in Dacca (now Dha-ka). The pogrom started in the pre-cincts of Dhaka University, initiallytargeting Bengali Hindus. Nixon-Kissinger admonished blood foroverreacting in an internal matter ofa sovereign country even as millionsof East Bengalis, irrespective of theirreligion, were either massacred ordisplaced. Millions of refugees (al-
most 10 million till October, 1971)fled to neighbouring India – WestBengal, Assam and Tripura in partic-ular. The powers that be were moreinterested in aligning with a dictato-rial country rather than with theworld’s largest democracy. Strange,but true.
The American administration wasinterested to use Yahya Khan, thethen President of Pakistan as a ‘cou-rier’ of sensitive documents to Chi-na after considering many other clan-
destine channels. Theworld press was hood-winked by the US incourting an ally of SovietRussia, in the thick of theCold War. Bass wrote, “Aspromised, Yahya spokepersonally to Zhou Enlai,China’s premier, andscored impressive re-sults: an invitation fromMao himself for the Unit-ed States to send a spe-cial envoy to Beijing. Ac-cording to Yahya, Zhou hadpraised the use of him asan intermediary, since hewas a head of state and Pa-kistan was ‘a great friendof China’.” Yahya was per-sonally picked by Kissing-er and Nixon.
At the height of theIndo-Pak conflict in De-cember 1971, the USAadopted a threefoldstrategy to corner India,stated Bass. The dread-ed Seventh Fleet threatand the surreptitious
move to dispatch F-104s to Paki-stan through Iran and Jordan de-spite a US Congress embargoagainst sale of arms to Pakistan,would pale in front of the requestto China to move its troops to thenorthern border of India, in a dealwith a Chinese emissary at a se-cret location in New York on De-cember 10, where Kissinger waspersonally present.
Despite the heartless policy of theUSA, the birth of Bangladesh couldnot be prevented. The tilt towards
Pakistan was vital for the opening toChina. Nixon met Mao in Beijing in1972 and the rest, they say, is histo-ry. After Mao, it became Deng’sChina. “We should not bother aboutthe colour of the cat, so long as itcatches mice,” famously quippedPresident Deng Xiao Ping, thestrongest man after Mao’s demise.Maybe China had her own compul-sions after the alleged failure of the‘Great Leap Forward’. China be-came an attractive destination for allmultinationals, and billions werepoured in as foreign direct invest-ment (FDI). “It has propelled Chinafrom being one of the poorest econ-omies in the world to a challengerto the United States,” opined LindaYueh, a British-American economistof Taiwanese origin.
Yueh commented in her book The
Great Economists (2018), “Marxwould not have recognized China to-day as an embodiment of his princi-ples. So, it is unlikely that Marxwould have condoned China’s subse-quent move to incorporate marketforces into its economy. He mighthave been intrigued by the continua-tion of the communist political sys-tem governing an economy thatshares challenges such as inequalitycommon with the most capitalistic ofeconomies, the United States.” Pre-mier Li Keqiang recently warnedPresident Trump to avoid any ‘con-frontational relationship’ and refer-ring to enormous investments by theUS firms in China, said: “Such deci-sions should be left to markets andbusiness instead of government in-terventions.” Isn’t it music for thecapitalist ears?
However, these modern-day com-munists ironically honoured KarlMarx during his bicentenary birthcelebration when the world chose toignore him. In 2017, China present-ed a statue for his birth place, Trier inGermany. The USA cannot absolveof its responsibility by propagatingChina as a ‘perceived Frankenstein’.Due to Cold War politics, it hadpropped China despite unfathomabledifferences in ideology. So, no one isholier than thou.
The lesser of the two evilsith the advent of thelockdown, the powerto judge the lesser ofthe two evils has
been highlighted. The crux of sur-viving is now solely dependent onnecessity which was previouslyhighly dependent on morality and,to some extent, spirituality. A lay-man’s venture into the plague isdealing with the wrath of God andwashing away their sins to appease‘Corona Mata’ to leave the poorsuffering humans alone. But just asCaesar didn’t realize until the back-stabbing that Brutus was a fraudand a fiend, the trust on religionand God coming to the rescue isslowly dwindling which will be akey aspect in the turn of the centu-ry with no religious red flags to snubprogress with the ushering of thenew world.
Religion arose in ancient Bharatwith the help of a tremendous PRcampaign which would put the likesof today’s news channels to shame.It is often professed that after the
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battle of Kalinga, Ashoka was dev-astated by the destruction and theresulting death that took place andadopted Buddhism as a path to self-realization, Ahimsa and ultimatelyMoksha. But what is usually left outis the fact that after the battle ofKalinga, the Mauryan Empire en-compassed the majority of the In-dian subcontinent expanding fromBrahmagiri in the south to Taxilain the north. To govern such a hugeregion was a tremendously difficulttask for Ashoka as messengers tookmore than four days on horsebackto reach the extreme corners ofthe kingdom which means that tillthe time there was an official mes-sage from the Emperor, the situa-tion either escalated or de-escalat-ed with little or no effort from theMauryan Empire. The only way tocontrol this distressing gap andgovern the entirety of the subcon-tinent was to introduce a commonreligion. India at the time of theMauryan conquest was a fragment-ed concept. The vast majority of
the population were a diversebunch with society, customs, reli-gions and habits differing form onepart to another. What Ashoka need-ed now was a common fixturethrough which the people could beheld responsible for their actionswithout the interference of theMauryan Empire. So hence arosethe concept of religion of the mass-es to control the masses. Dhammawas introduced as a written consti-tution and the concept of moralitywas introduced but the only differ-ence was that now the actions ofthe masses were policed by Godhimself rather than the MauryanEmpire. This systematic injectionof Buddhism to control the massesis perhaps one of the first instancesof humans choosing the lesser ofthe two evils.
The contemporary times definethis subject in much better perspec-tive, the paradox being that lock-down will stop the spreading ofcoronavirus and hence save livesbut enforcing lockdown will se-verely impact the livelihood of thepeople and hence take lives. India
was praised due to the fact that inspite of being the largest democra-cy in the world with 1.3 billion peo-ple, it was able to enforce strin-gent lockdown in almost all partsof the country. But what followedwas a mass exodus of migrant work-ers from neighbouring Stateswhich resembled the mass exodusduring the Partition in 1947, if notmore. The lesser of the two evilshere is much harder to find.
Nothing in life is permanent ex-cept death and taxes. The conceptof taking one’s life is the ultimatedefinition of choosing the lesser ofthe two evils. The concept of evilis different for all; what is consid-ered evil for someone is actuallychaotic good for another; what isgood for some is chaotic evil forsomeone. The advent of lockdownhas highlighted to us how evil isdifferent in different minds, theelite condemned the violation oflockdown to do petty things likearranging for food and earning alivelihood as their food and liveli-hood was not hindered by the dif-ferent curfews, the poor con-
demned the enforcing of the lock-down as it threatened their nextday’s meal. Just as freedom was dif-ferent for different people duringthe Independence struggle, theconcept of evil is different for dif-ferent people with both treadingthe same dense water but neveroverlapping.
The fallacy within Sushant SinghRajput’s mind cannot be pinpointed.His demise has caused a stir whichshould have been prevalent beforehim taking this ultimate step. Whenthe zeal to live is threatened, themind becomes a battlefield betweenchoosing the lesser evil which usual-ly encompasses oneself. Death is anultimatum from which we cannotcome back and the people who arealive suffers more than those whodie because if you die, you are simplydead. Sushant Singh Rajput on themorning of June 14 chose the lesserof the two evils and took his own lifeand we are no one to pity him.
In Dumbledore’s words: “Do notpity the dead Harry,/Pity the living/And above all those who live/With-out love.”
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defunct by now. The StateGovernment should make athorough inquiry and takeappropriate steps promptly inorder to reduce the vulnerabilityof the targeted group of students.The Sarva Siksha Abhijanarranges Utsav Vidyarambha, anenrolment drive during the firstweek of an academic session. It islearnt that the field workers of theGoalpara unit of SSA succeeded inreducing the school dropout ratein the district under this pro-gramme in an innovative way.They created an atmosphere offun and fair among the impover-ished parents. The betel nut, anaddiction for many, played aninteresting role in helpingGoalpara, one of the sevenaspirational districts of Assam, toachieve almost 100% enrolment inthe upper primary schools. Theeffort attracted the attention of theNITI Aayog with the body laudingGoalpara Deputy CommissionerVarnali Deka. We believe if theunits of other districts apply theGoalpara model, a revolutionary
change in school retention may beexpected in the entire State. Yoursetc., ANIL CHANDRA SARMAH,Jorhat.
Malicious comment
Sir, – The failure of the AssamPolice team to arrest GargaChatterjee in West Bengal isreflective of the chauvinismpursued by the people of that State.The team went to Kolkata underthe instruction of the Chief Ministerof Assam after Chatterjee posted onsocial media the malicious,subversive, stupidly ignorantcomment about Siukapha, thefounder of the great Ahom kingdomthat had ruled Assam for nearly 600years benevolently leaving behindinnumerable contributions. It issurprising to read about the lack ofcooperation on the part of the WestBengal Police in nabbing Chatterjee.Chatterjee may take out time toread the basics of Indian history toknow the contribution of the Ahomkings in building a strong, culturallyrich, unified Assam that defendedthe country against numerousforeign aggressions. Chatterjee is
the perfect embodiment of Bengal’srelentless downward journeyexposing its intellectual bankruptcy,moral depravity and culturaldecimation. Hopefully, Chatterjeewould land up in jail soon. Yoursetc., GAUTAM GANGULY,Guwahati.
New APSC chief
Sir, – The APSC is alleged tohave arbitrarily allowed manycandidates to appear in the CCE(Mains) 2018 on the basis of asmany as 90 plus wrong answer keysto the CCE (Prelims) 2018examination. The result of the CCE(Mains) is yet to be declared.Although it is a constitutionalobligation of the APSC to ensurethat the selection process isimpartial, transparent and error-free, notwithstanding the StateGovernment often promising thesame, the promises have remainedunfulfilled, the obligation unaccom-plished in its true spirit. However,with retired IPS officer PallabBhattacharyya now as the chairmanof the APSC, known for hisefficiency and honesty, can we now
expect a truly impartial and error-free selection process so that nodeserving candidate is deprived?Yours etc., ANITA CHIRING,Guwahati.
Ambulance can’t wait
Sir, – Tax is good for citizens. Tolltax is needed to generate fund for themaintenance of roads. The BaihataChariali toll gate, however, is creatingmajor traffic jams during these daysof lockdown. Perhaps it is a no brainerto imagine how the story will go oncenormalcy returns to the State.Baihata Chariali is the merging pointof at least three busy roads. Thestudents, office-goers, businessmencan wait; an ambulance can’t. Everylife is precious. Hence, I would like tourge the Government and the NHAIto construct a dedicated ambulanceway bypassing the traffic-prone areasof the State in general and the newly-constructed toll gate in particular.Yours etc., DAMBARUDHARDEKA, Kalaigaon.
n Atanu Kr Chowdhury
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI 5CITY
LOCAL FORECAST:
Generally cloudy sky withmoderate rain. Maximum andminimum temperatures aremost likely to be 32°C and 24°Crespectively on Thursday.TEMPERATURE:Max 33.5° C :: Min 26.5° C
WEATHER
Award to GHCadvocate’sshort films
GUWAHATI, June 24: Twoshort films, Green Tree andBlack Coat by Meeta Dutta, apractising advocate in the Gau-hati High Court, have won theaward for the Best MotivationalFilms at the online LOSFFAAwards 2020 programme heldon June 20. The films deal witha couple of burning contempo-rary issues, according to a pressrelease issued here.
The programme, organised byBhardwaj Films Production India,was presented live from the Face-book page of the organiser.
Altogether 40 films were short-listed, out of which 28 got due rec-ognition and were thereby hon-oured in various categories.
The jury included noted writer-director Dilip Shukla; Nandita Puri,wife of the late actor Om Puri; chair-man of Jharkhand InternationalFilm Festival Rishi Prakash Mishraand Deepak Dua from Bollywood.
Dutta is also a social activist bymission and an actor by passion,associated with Cadence Theatre
Mumbai, the release added.
12 additionalambulances
requisitionedGUWAHATI, June 24: In order
to cope with the surging cases of
COVID-19 in Guwahati city, the 108
ambulance service authority today
requisitioned an additional 12 am-
bulances from outside the city.
An official informed that these am-
bulances have been requisitioned
from Morigaon and Kamrup districts
and all of those will be used to carry
COVID-19 patients only.
Kamrup (M) has 24 108 ambu-
lances and has placed 10 of those on
COVID-19 duty. – Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI, June 24: A joint
mock exercise on industrial disas-
ter emergency and response was
conducted today at the IOCL plant
at Abhoypur,
North Guwahati
by NDRF, SDRF,
Fire Brigade, As-
sam Police, 108
ambulance serv-
ice and the plant
employees.
The 1st Battal-
ion NDRF team
assisted the plant
employees in planning and coordina-
tion at the initial stage. Rescuers of
the team assembled all required re-
sponse tools and equipment in the
exercise and demonstrated their us-
age and utility. Effective methodolo-
gy and response drills were re-
hearsed and practised to ensure ef-
fective, speedy and safe operation
with very limited equipment.
The purpose of conducting such
industrial disaster response and
mitigation exercises is to gener-
ate awareness among all sections
of society and among first respond-
ers of disaster-prone areas in par-
ticular. Such exercises also devel-
op better coordination among
teams of various responding agen-
cies, which is essential in real dis-
aster situations.
Mock industrial disasterdrill at IOCL plant
Periodic awareness programmes
are crucial in and around industrial
setups because there is little or no
warning of industrial chemical acci-
dents and the loss incurred is very
high, NDRF sources said. There are
huge chances of
loss of life, proper-
ty, livelihood and
damage to envi-
ronment in such
situations. Areas
close to an indus-
trial setup are un-
der immediate
threat.
Disaster re-
sponse is not only the task of spe-
cialised groups. Community groups,
youths, volunteers, NGOs, various
authorities and civil administration
also play a role in effective and ac-
countable disaster management.
Community should be aware of the
hazardous installations and know-
how to combat the situation. The
local community has to be informed
about the response steps to be tak-
en in case of an accident. Also, com-
munity members should monitor
the pollution levels of the industry
and participate in mock drills for
evacuation, the NDRF sources said.
About 155 personnel of NDRF,
SDRF, Fire and Emergency Serv-
ices, Assam Police, 108 ambulance
service and employees of the plant
took part in the drill.
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI, June 24: Chief
Minister Sarbananda Sonowal to-
day met Governor Prof Jagdish
Mukhi at Raj Bhavan here and ap-
prised him of the COVID-19 situ-
ation in the State, the Baghjan gas
blowout incident and the prevail-
ing flood situation.
In an approximately 30-minute
long meeting, Sonowal drew the
attention of the Governor to differ-
ent measures being taken by the
government, particularly the local-
ity-based lockdown clamped in
CM discusses COVID situation,other issues with Governor
Guwahati. He also said that the gov-
ernment is maintaining a strict vig-
il over the situation and will take
appropriate steps seeing the devel-
opment over the next one week.
On the Baghjan incident, the
Chief Minister apprised the Gov-
ernor that sustained efforts are be-
ing made round-the-clock to put a
cap on the blowout areas. On being
asked about the reported tremor
around the affected areas, Sonowal
informed the Governor that the
North East Institute of Science and
Technology, Jorhat, is conducting an
in-depth study with the help of the
IIT Guwahati to find out the proba-
ble cause behind the tremor.
On the flood situation in the
State, the Chief Minister informed
the Governor that the administra-
tions in the affected districts have
been directed to reach out to the
marooned people and carry out
relief and rescue works. The Gov-
ernor said that in view of the pan-
demic, the government should
take adequate precautions to help
the flood-affected people in line
with the coronavirus safety proto-
cols, so that the viral infections
cannot spread in the relief camps.
A view of the mock drill.
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI, June 24: Con-
gress today staged a protest in the
city against the recent sharp hike
in petrol and diesel prices.
Workers of the party, led by
former Chief Minister Tarun Go-
goi and Assam Pradesh Congress
Committee (APCC) president
Ripun Bora, staged the protest
at the Rajiv Bhawan here. They
shouted slogans against the BJP-
led Central and State govern-
ments and called for a rollback of
the hike in prices of petroleum
products.
Speaking on the occasion, Go-
Cong protests hike in fuel pricesgoi alleged that the Narendra
Modi-led Central government is
insensitive to the plight of the
common masses. He said that the
government’s refusal to roll back
the huge excise duties on petrol
and diesel have led to increase in
prices of other essential com-
modities and made the lives of
the masses, who are already suf-
fering from the impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic and the eco-
nomic slowdown, even more
miserable.
“The real face of the Modi gov-
ernment has got exposed. By in-
creasing the excise duty on petrol
and diesel, the Modi government
has proved that it does not bother
about the masses. Rather than pro-
viding relief to the people, the gov-
ernment has increased the duty on
petrol and diesel. The Modi gov-
ernment is only working for the
benefit of the corporate houses,”
said Gogoi.
Bora, on his part, said that retail
prices of petrol and diesel in India
have touched a historic high at a
time when global crude prices
have tumbled. “The wrong poli-
cies of the government have hurt
the masses. The people are suf-
fering but the government refus-
es to do anything to ameliorate the
situation,” Bora said.
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI, June 24: Nobodyfound involved in irregularities thattook place in implementation of thePradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Ni-dhi scheme in the State will bespared, said Chief Minister Sarba-nanda Sonowal today. He was speak-ing during a programme held hereto distribute appointment letters to111 Agriculture Development Offic-ers (ADO) under the Department ofAgriculture.
“The State government is striv-ing to provide dignity to the farmersof the State and the new appointeesmust dedicate themselves towardsmaking agriculture glamorous so thatthe young generation aspires to takeup farming. Lots of irregularities tookplace in implementation of PradhanMantri Kisan Samman Nidhi schemein the State and no one found in-volved in embezzlement of the mon-ey meant for the farmers, would bespared. The new ADOs will have toshoulder the responsibility of ensur-ing that no such corrupt practicestake place in future,” said the ChiefMinister.
Referring to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s call for doublingfarmers’ income by 2022, Sonowalurged the new appointees to takeup the mantle of strict and properimplementation of schemes likePradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana,Soil Health Card, PM Kisan and KisanCredit Card, among others, for bring-ing in rapid development in agricul-ture and allied sectors.
Those found embezzling fund underfarmers’ scheme will be punished: CM
Stating that Assam did business ofagricultural products worth Rs 357crore during the 70 days of lockdown,Sonowal said that due to the Stategovernment’s initiative Assam’s farm-ers could export their produce to themarkets of London, Abu Dhabi, Dubaiand Singapore.
He said the government has tak-en steps like providing Rs 5,000 eachto 4.5 lakh farmers for buying agri-cultural equipment under the
Mukhya Mantrir Krishi Sa-Sajuli Yo-jana, besides distributing a tractor toeach of the 26,000 villages under theChief Minister Samagra Gramya Un-nayan Yojana (CMSGUY), and pro-viding 48,000 shallow pumps to thefarmers of the State.
He called upon the newly recruit-ed ADOs to guide the farmers andsolve their problems while makingthem aware about latest technologiesin the field of agriculture.
Congratulating the newly re-cruited ADOs on their opportuni-ty to serve the farming communi-ty of the State, the Chief Minis-ter informed that the agriculturedepartment would recruit an ad-ditional 3,189 personnel, includ-ing Agricultural Extension Offic-ers and Village Level ExtensionWorkers (VLEW), while 157 tech-nical recruitments would be madeby the department, including
those of junior engineers, withinthis year itself.
Referring to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s call of ‘local-vocal-global’ to encourage local businessesand products, Sonowal urged the newappointees to utilise their ideas andknowledge in strengthening the ‘pro-duction-procurement-cold storage-marketing’ chain.
Recalling his visit to Vietnamwith progressive farmers of theState, the Chief Minister said Vi-etnam could script success storiesin agriculture and allied sectorsbecause the agri-scientists and of-ficials there worked as a team withthe farmers to utilise their availa-ble resources to the maximumwhile adopting innovative tech-nologies. He said the conduciveclimate and fertile land of Assamhold equally immense potentiallike Vietnam to initiate a revolu-tion in agriculture.
Sonowal urged the new appoint-ees to implement their ideas andteachings in the field so that Assamcan chart newer territories of rapidagricultural progress.
Agriculture Minister Atul Boratalked about the department’s em-phasis on farm mechanisation. Heurged the new ADOs not to apply fortransfer as no such pleas would beconsidered. He asked them to put intheir best efforts to revolutionise thesector. Deputy Speaker of Assam As-sembly Aminul Haque Laskar, LSMember Dr Rajdeep Roy and Princi-pal Secretary, Agriculture RajeshPrasad also spoke.
Appointment lettersto 111 Agriculture
Development Officers
6 trying to avoidquarantine held
GUWAHATI, June 24: Six personswho jumped from a train at the Naren-gi Railway Station today, were ap-prehended by GRP personnel andlater sent to the Sarusajai quaran-tine centre.
NF Railway PRO Nripen Bhat-tacharya said that the six personswho had come from Dimapur bythe Brahmaputra Mail, jumpedfrom the train when it sloweddown at the Narengi station,which is not one of the designat-ed stations for stoppage.
They had booked tickets to theGuwahati Railway Station butjumped from the train at Narengiwith a view to avoiding quarantine.
– Staff Reporter
Austerity hailedGUWAHATI, June 24: The
Viswa Hindu Parishad GuwahatiMahanagar Samity while resent-ing missing out on the opportuni-ty to serve Ambubachi pilgrimsthis year, however welcomed theKamakhya Temple authorities’decision to maintain austerity inview of the prevailing COVID-19emergency situation.
While this year has been an ex-ception in view of the COVID-19, forthe last several years the VHP unithas been rendering service to pil-grims during the annual AmbubachiMela, said a press release issued bySanti Kumar Singha, president of theVHP Mahanagar Samity.
The VHP leader asked the devo-tees not to visit the temple duringthe Ambubachi days and to strictlyfollow government guidelines on so-cial distancing norms.
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 20206 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI NATIONAL
SHORT SALE NOTICESealed tenders affixing Court fee stamps worth of Rs. 8.25
(Rupees Eight and Paisa twenty five) only on each tender are
invited for Sale of Timber Lots under Aie Valley Division,
Bongaigaon. Details of Lot timbers & other terms and
conditions in the original sale notice can be procured from the
office of the undersigned during office hours of any working
day on payment of Rs. 50.00 (Rupees Fifty) only for Sale
Notice within 20.07.2020.
The intending Tenderers shall have to pay Rs. 5.00 (Rupees
Five) only for each Tender Form to submit tenders.
The date of receiving tenders have been fixed
on 21.07.2020 up to 3.00 P.M. (I.S.T.) in the office of
the undersigned. In case the office remains closed on that
day for any unforeseen or unavoidable reason, then
tenders will be received up to 3.00 P.M. (IST) on next working
day.
Sd/- Divisional Forest Officer
Aie Valley Division
Janasanyog/C/1752/20 Bongaigaon.
ADVERTISEMENTNo. 3466-82
1. Applications are invited from the eligible candidates, who arecitizens of India as defined in Article 5 and 6 of the Constitutionof India, in Standard Form as published in Part-IX of the AssamGazette, for engagement of 3(three) nos. of Drivers oncontingency basis for the official vehicles of the Civil Judge andAssistant Session Judges of the establishment of District &Sessions Judge, Kamrup(Metro), Guwahati, at a fixed pay ofRs. 15,000 per month.
Name of Post Pay Per month Number Category(Fixed of Posts
Driver Rs. 15,000 03 Unreserved
IMPORTANT DATES
Sl. No. Description Date
1 Submission of From the date of publishing thisApplication advertisement in the newspaper
2 Last date for Within 15 days from the date ofsubmission of publishing this advertisement in
Application the newspaper.
2. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
Driver Candidates shall have to pass Class VIII. Apart fromthat the candidate must possess a valid ProfessionalDriving License.
3. SELECTION PROCESS:
The selection process will be held in two stages. The first stagewould be Driving/Screening Test and the second stage wouldbe the Interview/Viva-voce, Those candidate who would qualifythe Driving/Screening Test, will be called for Interview/Viva-voce.On the basis of the sum total of marks obtained in driving testand viva-voce, the final select list will be prepared.4. TERMS AND CONDITIONS:i. Candidates must submit relevant testimonial/certificate and
4(four) recent passport sized photographs along with theapplication. However, candidates have to produce theiroriginal testimonials regarding educational qualifications,date of birth, caste, working experience etc. at subsequentstages when asked for.
ii. In appropriate cases, relaxation of age will be admissible asper the existing rules of the government of Assam.
iii. One self- addressed envelope of 5cm x 11cm affixing postalstamp of Rs. 5/- (Five) is to be enclosed with the applicationalong with a valid mobile number, if any.
iv. The admission of candidates at all stages of the selectionprocess will be purely provisional and subject to satisfyingthe prescribed eligibility conditions. The application will besubject to scrutiny at every stage and shall be rejected ifany defect is detected.
V. The date, time and venue of the driving test will be notified indue time which will be published in the Notice Board andOfficial Website of this office. The candidates are advised tokeep checking the website of Kamrup(M) District Judiciary.
vi. The list of provisional candidates with allotted Roll Numberswill be published in the official website of Kamrup(M)District Judiciary www.kampupjudiciary.gov.in, for thecandidates’ reference.
vii. No TA/DA shall be paid to the candidates for appearing inthe Driving Test and Interview/Viva-voce.
viii. Candidates who are already in Government Service (Central/State or PSU) may apply through proper channel. Theyshall have to produce “No Objection Certificate” from thepresent employer at the time of document verification beforethe driving test and they will have to submit release order atthe time of joining.
ix. Application form which is incomplete in any respect, suchas, without photograph and signature, is liable to be rejectedsummarily.
x. Information submitted by an applicant in his/her applicationwill bind the candidate and if found to be false, his/hercandidature will be cancelled forthwith and he/she shall beliable for criminal prosecution.
xi. The candidate will be responsible for any mistake made byhim/her in the application form and this office shall not beresponsible or liable in any way.
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The Executive Engineer, PWD, (Roads) Morigaon District
Territorial Road Division, Morigaon on behalf of the Governor
of Assam invites item rate Bids from approved and eligible
Contractors registered with Assam PWD (Roads) for the 7
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execution of similar nature of the following work:
Sl. Item of Work Estimated amount Time of Cost of Bid
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Supply Scheme.
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RE-TENDER NOTICENIT-4 of 2020-21Sealed tenders affixing non refundable court fee stamp of Rs. 8.25(Rupees eight and paisa twenty five) only are invited by the undersignedfrom reputed electrical firms/ contractors for the following works. Thetenders will be received up to 3.00 PM on 01.07.2020 in the office of theundersigned and will be opened at 3.30 PM at the same place and on thesame date.Details item of works, terms and conditions etc. may be collected fromthe office of the undersigned during office hours on all working days upto 1.00 PM of 01.07.2020 on written request and on payment of Rs.500.00 (Rupees five hundred) only for each group in cash. The ratesmust be quoted at percentage basis above, below or as per with theestimated value of the work.Name of work :
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A Drawal of HT line, installation of transformer 7.37substation, drawl of LT line and alliedelectrical works for Solmara DTWS Pt. 3.
B Drawal of HT line, installation of transformer 7.42substation, drawl of LT line and alliedelectrical works for Barnibari DTWS Pt. 2
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Sealed tenders in two-bid system are invited from the experienced & competent reputed firms/contractors of relevant categoriesregistered under Building of CPWD, APWD, MES, Autonomous Body and any other Central or State Govt. undertaking, forthe following works at CIT Kokrajhar.
Sl. Name of the work Estimated Cost of Date of Last date Technical bid Price bidNo. Cost (Rs.) tender fee tender of tender opening date opening
(Rs.) issue submission date
1 Construction of Security 34,23,750.00Barrack (Women) at CITKokrajhar
2 Construction of lntemal 43,43,800.00Road from TransitClassroom to HydraulicLaboratory at CIT 26.06.2020 08.07.2020 09.07.2020 13.07.2020Kokrajhar 1,000.00 To up to at at
3 Repairing of Internal 33,08,800.00 08.07.2020 14:00 Hrs. 15:00 Hrs. 15:00 HrsRoad of Campus at CITKokrajhar
4 Construction of Internal 88,61,800.00Road from MechanicalWorkshop to Main GateNo. 2 at CIT Kokrajhar
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Forecast for North Eastern
States: Rain/thundershower is
very likely to occur at most
places over Arunachal Pradesh,
Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland,
Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura.
Warning : Thunderstorm with
lightning is very likely to occur
at isolated places over
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and
Meghalaya. Heavy to very
heavy rain with isolated ex-
tremely heavy falls is very likely
to occur at isolated places over
Assam and Meghalaya. Heavy
to very heavy rain is very likely
to occur at isolated places over
Arunachal Pradesh. Heavy rain
is very likely to occur at iso-
lated places over Nagaland,
Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura.
Temperatures :
Max (°C) Min (°C)
Dibrugarh 25.5 22.6
Tezpur 32.5 27.2
Silchar 32.3 26.7
Dhubri 31.0 26.5
Jorhat 30.6 25.4
N Lakhimpur 25.9 23.2
Shillong 25.6 19.5
Cherrapunjee 20.6 17.9
Aizawl 25.2 19.3
Kohima 26.2 18.2
Pasighat 25.6 23.4
Itanagar 26.8 24.4
Imphal 30.1 23.6
Agartala 36.1 28.0
WEATHER
NORTHEAST
CORRESPONDENT
IMPHAL, June 24: A Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI) team today took
the statement of Congress leader and
former Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi
Singh in connection with an ongoing
probe into a funds misappropriation case,
sources said here.
The CBI team conducted its investi-
gation at the official residence of Ibobi
Singh who is currently the leader of the
Congress Legislature Party (CLP), the
sources added.
The team had arrived here from the
CBI headquarters in New Delhi on Tues-
day to continue the probe into the case,
which it had taken over from the Ma-
nipur Police in November last year.
According to the allegation, govern-
KALYAN BAROOAH
NEW DELHI, June 24: The
scene of the intense political
drama in Manipur shifted to
the national capital today with
a delegation of the National
People’s Party (NPP) led by
Meghalaya Chief Minister
Conrad Sangma and Assam
minister and chairman of the
North East Democratic Alli-
ance (NEDA) Himanta Biswa
Sarma calling on Union Home
Minister Amit Shah here.
BJP sources said that the
meeting had remained incon-
clusive as the rebel NPP MLAs
of Manipur stood firm on fulfil-
ment of their “demand”.
Later, Sarma tweeted: “A
NPP delegation led by @Sang-
Conrad’s Manipurvisit official: Tynsong
CORRESPONDENT
AIZAWL, June 24: Anoth-
er earthquake measuring 4.1
on the Richter scale struck
Mizoram this morning. This
is the fifth earthquake to
have hit the State within a
week, triggering panic
among the people.
Today’s earthquake had its
epicentre, 31 km south-west
of Champhai. A 5.5 magni-
tude quake had rocked east-
ern Mizoram on Monday
morning, partially damaging
at least 30 buildings.
In Khawbung, Vaphai and
Samthang villages in Champhai
district, which were the worst
hit in Monday’s quake, many
families either stayed awake
throughout the night or slept
outside their houses.
CORRESPONDENT
AIZAWL, June 24: Three
more persons, including a
woman without travel histo-
ry, have tested positive for
COVID-19, while three pa-
tients were cured and dis-
charged from hospitals in Mi-
zoram on Wednesday.
The State’s COVID-19 tal-
ly now stands at 145.
A statement issued by the
Department of Information
and Public Relations this
morning said three more
positive cases, including
two women, were report-
ed in the State, while 617
samples tested negative in
the last 24 hours.
Of the three new cases, two
were reported in Aizawl dis-
trict and one in Lunglei, it said.
According to Dr Pachuau
Lalmalsawma, spokesperson
for COVID-19, one of the new
cases was a woman with no
Manipur rebel NPP MLAs’meeting with Shah ‘inconclusive’
maConrad and Dy Chief Min-
ister of Manipur Sri Y Joy Ku-
mar Singh met Home minis-
ter @AmitShah today in New
Delhi. Both @BJP4India and
NPP will continue to work to-
gether for the development of
Manipur.”
The meeting held at the
Union Home Minister’s official
residence lasted half-an-hour.
On their way out, Sarma de-
clined to speak to the waiting
media persons. The team flew
back to Guwahati in a chartered
flight later in the evening.
The delegation that met
Shah included Manipur Dep-
uty Chief Minister Y Joyku-
mar Singh, Youth Affairs and
Sports Minister Letpao Haok-
ip, L Jayentakumar and N
Kayisi, who were accompa-
nied by Sangma and Sarma.
Sources said that some broad
proposals were mooted, and
that the BJP was hopeful of
defusing the crisis.
Earlier, the delegation flew
in here from Guwahati this
morning, where they were
joined by the Meghalaya Chief
Minister who had landed from
Borapani. Obviously, the dele-
gation was aware of the dead-
line of returning on the same
day to escape the COVID-19
quarantine protocol. The Ma-
nipur MLAs, who were flown
in from Imphal last evening, had
halted at Guwahati for the night.
Meanwhile, Congress Lok
Sabha member Gaurav Gogoi
told newsmen here this after-
noon that the fall of the N Bi-
ren Singh-led coalition Gov-
ernment in Manipur was just
a matter of time as there was a
division within the BJP itself.
Apart from the four NPP
MLAs, three others from the
BJP, one from the All India
Trinamool Congress and one
Independent had withdrawn
support to the Government.
Reacting to the news of a
CBI team going to Manipur
to grill former Chief Minister
and Congress leader O Ibobi
Singh in connection with a
funds misappropriation case,
Gogoi, who was also sent to
Manipur along with Ajay
Maken as Congress observ-
ers recently, called it an ex-
ample of “vindictive politics”.
CBI records Ibobi Singh’s statementin funds misappropriation case
ment funds amounting to Rs 332 crore
were misappropriated during the ten-
ure of Ibobi Singh as the chairman of the
Manipur Development Society (MDS)
from June 30, 2009 to July 6, 2017.
Others named in the case are former
Manipur Chief Secretaries DS Poonia,
PC Lawmuknga and O Nabakishore
Singh, former MDS Project Director Y
Ningthem and its administrative officer,
S Ranjit Singh.
Meanwhile, welcoming the CBI inves-
tigation into the case, Ibobi Singh main-
tained that he was never involved in any
transaction activities of the MDS, apart
from chairing its annual meetings. “I will
extend my full cooperation during the
investigation,” he said.
In another development, BJP national
general secretary Ram Madhav arrived
here today to take stock of the current
political situation in the State.
On his arrival at the Bir Tikendrajit
International Airport near Imphal, Mad-
hav said, “We are going to felicitate our
newly elected member of the Rajya Sab-
ha. It was a grand victory for the people
of Manipur and the BJP leadership.”
Responding to another question, the
BJP leader said, “We have been asked
about stability of our Government in the
State since the last one year, but we have
been winning elections. We will be sta-
ble till 2022.”
Later, Madhav attended a felicitation
programme of Maharaja Leishemba Sana-
jaoba who had won the recently conclud-
ed Rajya Sabha elections, sources said.
Chief Minister N Biren Singh was also
present during the event, they added.
Another quake jolts MizoramEven though residents of
these villages said they felt
tremors every hour, the Na-
tional Centre for Seismolo-
gy said four earthquakes
were experienced in the last
four days. The India Meteor-
ological Department on Tues-
day said a 3.1 magnitude
tremor hit Lunglei district in
south Mizoram adjoining
Myanmar. The epicentre of
the tremor, which lasted for
a few seconds, was at a depth
of 25 km.
A moderate quake measur-
ing 5.5 on the Richter scale
shook Champhai and adjoin-
ing areas on the Richter scale
on Monday after 5.1 magni-
tude earthquake hit the State
on Sunday and another a 5-
magnitude quake on Thurs-
day night.
3 test positive in Mizoramtravel history.
“The woman had contract-
ed the disease from her father,
who tested positive on June
13,” he said.
Her father had served as
the conductor of a bus that
ferried returnees from Bair-
abi to different districts of Mi-
zoram. Earlier, it was report-
ed that none of his family
members and close contacts
had tested positive.
Pachuau, however, assured
that there is no reason to pan-
ic as the woman had been un-
der home quarantine before
she tested positive.
Later in the afternoon, the
DIPR tweeted that four more
COVID-19 patients from
Champhai district were dis-
charged from the Dedicated
COVID Health Centre’s re-
covery ward today.
With this, Mizoram cur-
rently has 122 active and 23
recovered cases.
54 active cases in SikkimGANGTOK, June 24: With four more persons testing pos-
itive, the number of COVID-19 cases in Sikkim rose to 83,
including 54 active cases. Director General-cum-Secretary of
Health, Dr Pema T Bhutia said that four persons, all from South
district, tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday night. So far, 29
patients have recovered from COVID-19 in Sikkim.
Nine COVID-19 patients were released from the isolation
ward of the Ayush Hospital at Kyongsa in West Sikkim. West
district DC Karma R Bonpo urged them to follow the proto-
cols of home quarantine. The remaining five positive patients
at the hospital are asymptomatic and receiving all necessary
treatment at the isolation ward where they have been kept
under continuous observation. – A Correspondent
STAFF CORRESPONDENT
SHILLONG, June 24: The
Meghalaya Government is
seeking to put an official stamp
on Chief Minister Conrad
Sangma’s recent visit to Ma-
nipur to tackle the revolt with-
in the NPP unit of that State.
Sangma has no official busi-
ness with the Government of
Manipur as the Chief Minis-
ter of Meghalaya, but he vis-
ited that State on Sunday last
in his capacity as the national
president of the NPP as four
of his party MLAs in Manipur
had reportedly joined hands
with the Congress.
But Deputy Chief Minister
Prestone Tynsong is now citing
an official notification of the State
Health Department dated June
22, which states that the Chief
Minister and other higher offi-
cials can move outside the State
on urgent official work.
Sangma’s “political” visit to
Manipur is being sought to be
justified under this provision
of “urgent official work”. When
a journalist quizzed the Depu-
ty Chief Minister on Sangma’s
“political visit”, Tynsong re-
torted: “Are you saying that
politics is not official?”
The Deputy Chief Minister
maintained that Sangma had
rushed to Manipur to sort out
“issues” in that State and add-
ed that even Assam Health
Minister Himanta Biswa Sar-
ma had gone there too.
Tynsong said that both these
leaders rushed to Manipur as
otherwise “people of Manipur
would have suffered and so we
treat this as an official visit”.
Meanwhile, Sangma has
been criticised for undertaking
this “political” visit at the time
of the pandemic condition.
Former Assam CM Tarun Go-
goi has tweeted that both Sang-
ma and Sarma violated COV-
ID-19 quarantine guidelines.
49 more cases in ManipurIMPHAL, June 24: With 49 new cases reported in the past
24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Manipur has
increased to 970, including 642 active cases.
“In the last 24 hours, 49 persons, including 25 women, test-
ed positive,” said Dr Khoirom Sasheekumar Mangang, Addi-
tional Director and spokesperson of the State Health Depart-
ment in a press release. Among the news cases, 11 each are
from Churachandpur and Ukhrul districts, five each from Sen-
apati, Kakching and Kamjong, three from Imphal West, two
each from Imphal East, Kangpokpi and Tamenglong, and one
each from Jiribam, Noney and Thoubal.
All of them are returnees from other States and they have
been shifted to COVID care facilities. – Correspondent
Arunachal’s firstCOVID-19 death
ITANAGAR, June 24: A 43-
year-old Delhi returnee be-
came the first COVID-19 fa-
tality in Arunachal Pradesh
when she died while being
transported to the TRIHMS
COVID Hospital at Naharlagun
today. A resident of West Ka-
meng, she was suffering from
a chronic kidney disease. She
was cremated at Dirang by fol-
lowing the guidelines on dead
body management, said State
Surveillance Officer Dr Lob-
sang Jampa. – Correspondent
23 new casesin Tripura
AGARTALA, June 24:
Tripura has reported 23 new
COVID-19 positive cases. Ed-
ucation Minister Ratan Lal
Nath said the State currently
has 451 active cases, while 807
patients have recovered and
46,868 are under surveillance.
Nath added that the Cen-
tre would send 16 ventila-
tors to the State. The State
Government had sought 37
ventilators to scale up its
fight against COVID-19. –
Correspondent
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 8 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI
STATENEWS IN BRIEF
KNP fringe area people’s helpin conservation process lauded
‘No info with Centre on relevant research prior to notification’
Demand to evict restaurantSIVASAGAR, June 24: The Rongpur Ancient Monument
Preservation Committee (RAMPC) has protested the exist-ence of commercial ventures on the historic Joysagar Bor-pukhuri dug in 1697 by Rudra Singha in memory of his moth-er Sati Joymoti. The committee on Monday petitioned theSivasagar Deputy Commissioner to evict and dismantle arestaurant ‘Heritage’ built right on the waterfront of thehistoric tank. The RAMPC, following an RTI, came to knowthat the restaurant authority does not have any permissionto set up a business venture on a place of monumental im-portance. The AASU Sivasagar unit has also lodged a similarcomplaint with the district administration asking it to clearthe banks of the Borpukhuri of all illegal constructions.–Correspondent
Folk artist felicitatedTIHU, June 24: The Paschim Nalbari Students’ Union,
accorded a warm felicitation to eminent folk artiste of Chamata(Rupia bathan), Dhireswar Barman with a phulam gamosaand a citation on the occasion of Rabha Divas. The team wasled by Biswajit Sarma, president, Pranjal Barman, generalsecretary and Mir Hussain, organising secretary.of the stu-dents union. – ANN Service
Biswanath containment zonesBISWANATH CHARIALI, June 24: The Biswanath district
administration has declared the potential areas coming incontact with Bijoy Shankar Das who was tested COVID-19positive, as containment zones and has already sealed off allthe areas. The five areas declared as containment zones bythe district administration with effect from 10 am on Tues-day are Shantipur area, Mistymukh confectionery, Book Cent-er, Romney Bastralaya and Joy Bharat Chalon and Paris Beau-ty Parlor. – Correspondent
Containment zone at DC officeJORHAT, June 24: A part of the Jorhat Deputy Commis-
sioner’s office was declared a containment zone after a Grade-IV employee tested COVID-19 positive. The employee,Jitumoni Sarma, a resident of Baligaon, does not have anytravel history. This led to Jorhat Deputy Commissioner Ro-shni A Korati declaring the building to the east of the mainDC’s office a containment zone. Korati said that all the em-ployees of the said branches have been asked to remain inhome quarantine and will be tested. An official source saidthat Sarma’s mother, wife and son have been quarantined ina hotel. – Staff Correspondent
Sonitpur COVID-19 casesTEZPUR, June 24: Fourteen more individuals were test-
ed COVID-19 positive till Monday evening in Sonitpur dis-trict taking the total to 186 cases in the district. It is bementioned here that among the 14 persons, 13 were em-ployees of Solmara Army Cantonment. Eleven containmentzones have been declared in the district. These are: HirajuliTE (Dhekiajuli), Ward No. 3 Rangapara, No.1 Dolabari(Tezpur), Bhojkhowa (Tezpur), Kewarichuk (Jamuguri Nag-sankar), Chanmari (Tezpur), Mazgaon Marabharalipar(Tezpur), Namonigaon (Rangapara), Keherukhunda (Dheki-ajuli), Japikhujiya, BP Tiniali (near Tezpur) and Ward No. 3,Bortal Road (Dhekiajuli). – Correspondent
Body recoveredGOSSAIGAON, June 24: A decomposed body was recov-
ered at Parbatjhora forest in Kokrajhar yesterday. The de-ceased, identified as Aminul Hussain Khan of Gossaigaontown, was kidnapped on June 9 last from Maruti Stand, Gos-saigaon. Police investigation is on. – ANN Service
Smartphones distributedDERGAON, June 24: In a bid to boost the activities of
gaonburhas, the State government has provided them withsmartphones. A programme was held in this connection inwhich 58 gaonburhas were provided smartphones. The pro-gramme chaired by the president of Dergaon Circle Com-mittee of All Assam Gaonburahs Association, Rebokanta Duttawas moderated by the secretary of the circle committeePranjal Dutta. – Correspondent
Workshop held at MirzaMIRZA, June 24: A workshop on mentoring government
pig breeding farms was inaugurated on June 22. Organisedunder the aegis of the Regional Institute of Livestock En-trepreneurship Management (RILEM), Rani ( Guwahati),Department of Animal Husbandry, Government of Assamand Assam Agricultural and Rural Transformation Project(APART), it saw participation of leading scientists. – ANNService
Foundation stone laidHAFLONG, June 24: Chief Executive Member (CEM),
North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council, Debolal Gorlosa laidthe foundation stone of a BEd college at Dima Haplai in thepresence of Ranu Langthasa, Chairperson NCHAC, NanditaGorlosa, EM, NCHAC, Lalremsiame Darnei, EM of NCHAC,Ratan Jarambusa, MAC of NCHAC and Bijit Langthasa, MAC,NCHAC on Monday. – Correspondent
Golokganj crematorium erodedGAURIPUR, June 24: The only crematorium of greater
Golokganj area located on the bank of the turbulent riverGangadhar is likely to be washed away within a very fewdays. Meanwhile, a large part of the island-like crematoriumhas already been washed away. The local people residingnear the crematorium have been trying to save the cremato-rium by dumping sand loaded sacks but in vain. It is worthmentioning that the crematorium was renovated at a cost ofRs 15 lakh last year with substandard materials and as aresult the crematorium is likely to be washed away. Thelocal AASU unit submitted a memorandum to the DeputyCommissioner and demanded a proper inquiry into the mat-ter, but no action has yet been taken up, the unit alleged. –Correspondent
AJIT PATOWARY
The Project Elephant (PE)
Division of the Union
Ministry of Environment,
Forests and Climate Change
(MoEFCC) has no informa-
tion available with it on the
study or research conducted
by it on the behaviour of ele-
phants and of elephant corri-
dors of the Dehing-Patkai El-
ephant Reserve before the
declaration of the same as an
elephant reserve on April 17,
2003.
This came to light from the
June 18, 2020 reply of the PE
Division to the RTI queries
made by RTI-cum-environ-
ment activist Rohit Choud-
hury to it on June 2, 2020.
Some leading environment
groups have been alleging for
quite some time that the Gov-
ernment declared the Dehing-
Patkai Elephant Reserve on
April 17, 2003 without any
proper scientific study. This
was so done only to defeat the
popular demand for carving out
a wildlife sanctuary compris-
ing a 500 square kilometre
contiguous rainforest area of
the Joypore, Upper Dehing
and Dirak Reserve Forests of
the Upper Assam districts of
Dibrugarh and Tinsukia.
The June 18 reply of the PE
Division has provided cre-
dence to the doubts ex-
pressed by these environ-
ment groups on the sincerity
of the Government in declar-
ing the Dehing-Patkai Ele-
phant Reserve.
On April 17, 2003 the noti-
fication (No FRW-44/2002/67)
on ‘Dihing-Patkai Elephant
Reserve’ was issued by the
State Government and it was
published as a gazette notifi-
cation on April 19, 2003 with
the signature of Dr Anwarud-
din Choudhury, the then Joint
Secretary, Environment and
Forest Department of the
State Government.
The schedules of this ele-
phant reserve showed that it
would comprise a vast area of
937 sq km spread over the
four forest divisions of Dibru-
garh, Digboi, Dum Duma
(Doomdooma) and Sivasagar
under the then civil (adminis-
trative) subdivisions of
Charaidew, Dibrugarh, Mar-
gherita and Tinsukia of the
then civil (administrative) dis-
tricts of Dibrugarh, Sivasagar
and Tinsukia. The elephant
reserve would be divided into
three main blocks and ‘eight
other disjunct pockets.’ While
Block-1 would comprise an
area of 460 sq km, Block-2
would comprise an area of 156
sq km, Block -3 would com-
prise an area of 170 sq km and
the eight other disjunct pock-
ets would comprise together
an area of 151 sq km, said the
notification.
Though the notification
looks clumsy, what appears
from its reading is that the
elephant reserve would be
spread over the Reserve For-
ests (RFs) areas of Upper
Dihing, Dilli, Joypur (Joy-
pore), Kakojan, Bogapani,
Namphai, Tinkopani, Le-
khapani, Makumpani, Pahar-
pur, Dirak and Tipong and the
Proposed Reserve Forests
(PRFs) areas of Tirap (1st
Addition), Tipong (1st Addi-
tion) and Saleki. The smaller
disjunct pockets it was pro-
posed to comprise included,
among others, parts of the
Abhoypur, Burhi-Dihing
(North and South Blocks),
Duarmara (including its pro-
posed 1st Addition RF), Ko-
tha, Naloni, Phillobari, Tokouni
and Torani RFs. “All these as
well as the blocks have conti-
guity through unclassed for-
ests, riverbeds and tea plan-
tations,” said the notification.
Even though the notifica-
tion proposed inclusion of
Saleki PRF areas within this
elephant reserve, the Saleki
forest area was highly denud-
ed since the pre-Independ-
ence era. It was proposed to
be upgraded into an RF, but
since it became the focus area
of coal mining activities this
proposal was never translat-
ed into reality.
It needs mention here that
only the three RFs – Joypore,
upper Dihing and Dirak – are
contiguous among the above
RFs and the rest have been
reduced into fragmented for-
est areas by unabated anthro-
pogenic activities.
Dehing-Patkai Elephant Reserve
Bogeenadi river eroding its bank at Milanpur village under Kadam Revenue Circle near the Bogeenadi Development Blockoffice in Lakhimpur district. – Photo: Farhana Ahmed
CORRESPONDENT
KAZIRANGA, June 24:
Chief Minister Sarbananda
Sonowal distributed cheques
among members of seven
eco-development commit-
tees located in and around
Kaziranga National Park
(KNP) at a special function
held at Burapahar Range of-
fice of Kaziranga National
Park on Monday.
The programme was held
under the initiative of Ka-
ziranga Ecosystem through
the National Adoption Fund
for Climate Change and was
funded by NABARD.
Cheques amounting to Rs 70
lakh were given away formal-
ly among members of eco-
development committees
coming from Japori Pathar,
Kuthori, Amguri, Phulaguri,
Travepal and Gourpal areas
situated in and around Ka-
ziranga National Park.
Speaking on the occasion,
Chief Minister Sarbananda
Sonowal said that due to the
active support of fringe area
population, Kaziranga Na-
tional Park had been relative-
ly safe from the ravages of
anti-social elements as the
local people had over the
years built up a very efficient
intelligence-sharing network
and had all along been assist-
ing the Forest Department
in terms of conservation and
protection of wildlife in the
internationally-famed World
Heritage Site by providing
timely inputs.
Heaping praise on the oc-
casional intelligence inputs
provided to the field staff by
the fringe area population
near KNP, Sonowal hoped
that the bonds of trust among
the local people and forest
staff in the days ahead would
help in the conservation of
prime wildlife habitat and
species, besides restricting
poaching activities.
Sonowal recalled that
since the current BJP dispen-
sation assumed office in the
State, different protective
measures had been initiated
in order to ensure that the
wild denizens of Kaziranga
National Park and its adjoin-
ing forests, including its flag-
ship species, the rhino, re-
mained protected from
poachers.
The fast track court estab-
lished by this government
ensured a better conviction
rate as far as rhino poaching
cases are concerned, said
Sonowal, adding that his gov-
ernment was very much
committed towards conser-
vation of flora and fauna in the
State.
The financial support pro-
vided by the government
aims at enabling the fringe
area population to go for dif-
ferent activities like water-
shed management, piscicul-
ture, organic farming, skill
development, etc.
According to a Forest De-
partment source, this kind of
financial support would help
in economic development in
the fringe areas of Kaziranga
National Park possible, be-
sides help in carrying out con-
servation initiatives.
Water Resources Minister
Keshav Mahanta and senior
forest and civil officials were
also present at the function.
A pineapple seller waiting for customers at Pathsala onWednesday. – Photo: Nava Kanta Kalita
CORRESPONDENT
DOOMDOOMA, June 24:
Union Petroleum and Natu-
ral Gas Secretary Tarun Ka-
poor visited Baghjan on Tues-
day evening. He first visited
the BGR - 5 of Baghjan Oil-
field and took stock of the sit-
uation. The OIL officials
briefed the Union Petroleum
Secretary about the progress
in their plans of dousing the
fire and capping the well.
On his way back, Kapoor
visited a relief camp set up at
Diamoolie TE No. 2 LP
School and interacted with
the inmates of the camp.
Later, talking to the local
scribes of Doomdooma at the
relief camp, the Petroleum
Secretary said, “Everything
is going on according to the
plan. If everything goes well
, a blowout preventer will be
placed in the well on July 7.
After placing the blowout
preventer on the well, the
fire will go up and then the
experts can work under it
and will cap the well.”
When asked about the
compensation to the affected
people , the Union Petrole-
um Secretary told that all the
affected people would get
adequate compensation as
per the procedure.
The worst affected people
of this disaster taking shel-
ter at Baghjan-Dighaltarrang
ME School were dissatisfied
as the Union Petroleum Sec-
retary did not visit their camp
which he crossed on his way
to and from the BGR-5.
Blowout preventer tobe placed on BGR-5 onJuly 7: Petroleum Secy
Union Petroleum SecretaryTarun Kapoor talking to localscribes at Diamoolie TE No.2 LP School on Tuesdayevening. – Photo: AbhijitKhataniar
CORRESPONDENT
BISWANATH CHARIALI, June 24: San-
thalia brothers, businessmen by profession
of Gamiri under Gohpur subdivision in Biswa-
nath district, have been preserving a ‘wood-
en armchair’ for long, reportedly used by
Rupkonwar Jyoti Prasad Agarwala.
According to Raju Santhalia and his broth-
er Uday Santhalia, their father’s maternal
uncle Keshar Dev Murarka once used to live
in the present house of the Santhalias. At that
time, Jyoti Prasad Agarwala had been work-
ing in and around Bholaguri Tea Estate,
Gohpur. He started his noble venture of mak-
ing the first Assamese feature film, Joymati
in the makeshift studio constructed in the tea
garden. The equipment required for the film
and also the actors and technicians were
brought to Bholaguri by the waterway of the
Brahmaputra and they were stationed at
Gamiri, a big village on the bank of the river.
It may be mentioned here that Gamiri
played a pivotal role in transportation during
the British era as there existed a big ferry-
ghat there at that time. Gamiri then became
a hub of Gandhian activists involved in the
freedom struggle and also of culture and lit-
erary workers. Jyoti Prasad used to take rest
at Keshar Dev Murarka’s house while trav-
elling through Gamiri and interacted with lo-
cal people sitting on this armchair. In due
Businessmen preserve JyotiPrasad’s chair at Gamiri
course of time, the wooden chair was handed
over to the next generation. After Keshar
Dev, his three sons Damodar, Shyamsundar
and Sajal preserved it. Later, the whole prop-
erty was inherited by the Santhalia brothers.
Since then, they have been protecting it from
decay. People often throng their house to have
a look at this age-old chair. They have now
urged the Department of Culture, Govern-
ment of Assam to take steps for the preser-
vation of this memorable property of Jyoti
Prasad Agarwala.
STAFF CORRESPONDENT
JORHAT, June 24: In
connection with the first
containment zone declara-
tion case at Number 1
Tarajan Sonarigaon here on
Saturday after a youth
Lakhyajit Bordoloi tested
positive, the Jorhat district
administration on Tuesday
filed two FIRs at the Jorhat
Police Station against the
bride and bridegroom
families for reportedly
organising a wedding
violating COVID-19
norms.
It may be mentioned
here that Lakhyajit was
one of the attendees of the
large gathering at the said
wedding ceremony held at
Number 1 Tarajan Sonari-
gaon on June 16.
The Jorhat Deputy
Commissioner informed
that cases have been
lodged under Sections 3 of
Epidemic Diseases Act
1897, 51(B) of Disaster
Management Act 2005 and
188 IPC against Manas
Dutta and Leemashree
Baruah for organising a
marriage ceremony which
violated government
orders on COVID-19
norms. The wedding at
Tarajan Sonarigaon which
Lakhyajit Bordoloi had
attended reportedly was
allegedly attended by
several people.
In this case, 221 people
have been identified to
have had primary and
secondary contacts with
the 29-year-old Lakhyajit,
who had returned from
Diphu on June 12. Among
those is Mariani MLA
Rupjyoti Kurmi and his
wife, son and three
security personnel who
had attended the wedding.
Kurmi’s wife is a cousin of
the bride. All of them are
now under home quaran-
tine.
FIRs againstCOVID-19 normsviolation at Jorhat
ASHAsupervisorsthreaten tolaunch stir
CORRESPONDENT
DERGAON, June 24:
Around 3,000 ASHA (Ac-
credited Social Health Activ-
ist) Supervisors, appointed in
2009 under the National
Health Mission (NHM), have
threatened to launch a stir
against the State govern-
ment’s alleged apathy to-
wards solving their long-
pending demands.
According to information,
they are given a paltry sum
Rs 6,000 as honorarium for
their service. Although the
State Health Minister, Dr
Himanta Biswa Sarma had an-
nounced to hike the amount
from Rs 6,000 to Rs 7,500 last
year, no action has been initiat-
ed so far.
Talking to this correspond-
ent, the president of Golaghat
District ASHA Supervisors
Association (GDASA), Dipti
Dutta alleged that despite re-
peated pleas, the State gov-
ernment is yet to take steps
in this regard.
AASU opposes tollplaza at Madanpur
ANN SERVICE
BAIHATA CHARIALI, June 24: The All Assam Students’
Union (AASU), Pub Kamrup unit staged a strong protest
against opening of a toll plaza in front of the Madartala Vidyap-
eeth High School at Madanpur on National Highway 31 here.
Several activists of the students’ body formed a human chain
on Monday opposing toll collection on the National Highway.
Senior leaders of the AASU unit alleged that the toll plaza
would severely affect the academic atmosphere. “We had sub-
mitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister in this regard,
but so far no action has been taken,” the leaders said.
Dharmeswar Das, office secretary of AASU, Dhiraj Ra-
jbongshi and Pradip Kumar Deka, adviser and vice president
of Kamrup district unit of AASU, Sonjyoti Barua president of
Rangiya Subdivision AASU and Javed Akhtar Choudhury and
Mrinal Deka president and secretary of Pub Kamrup unit of
AASU participated along with other members.
THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI 9THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
STATE
TENDER NOTICEAn Annual Tender Notice for supply of spare motor
par ts for Govt. vehicles & Motor Cycles of Police
Commissionerate, Guwahati for the Financial Year 2019-
2020 was published vide this office memo no. CPG(R)/MT/
2020/14-21 Dtd. 27.02.2020 for submitting the Quotations
from the respective firms on or before 25.03.2020.
Accordingly, a notice was issued vide this office Memo No.
CPG(R)/MT/2020/34 Dtd. 23.03.2020 for postponement of
the earlier date as fixed for last date for submission of Annual
Tender, due to present emergent situation of COVID-19 the
whole process of Tender Call for the Financial Year 2019-
2020 was passed over. Hence, the Annual Tender for supply
of spare motors parts for the Financial Year 2019-2020 will
be treated as 2020-2021.
Further, Sealed tenders affixing court fee stamp of
Rs. 8.25 (Rupees Eight and paise twenty five) only are
hereby invited from the intending proprietors of spare parts
of Motor vehicles within G.M. Corporation for supply of
spare parts for Govt. vehicles on or before 13.7.2020 up to
12 a.m. The Tender must be dropped in the tender box
placed in front of the M.T. Branch, Police Commissionerate,
Guwahati.
The tenders will be opened on 13.7.2020 in presence
of the tenderer or their authorize representatives at
02.00 P.M.
The terms and conditions will be remain same as mentioned
in the earlier Annual Tender Notice issued vide this office
memo no. CPG(R)/MT/2020/14-21 Dtd. 27.02.2020.
Sd/- Deputy Commissioner of Police (Admn.)
Janasanyog/C/1759/20 Guwahati, Assam
O.O. No. 328
SALE NOTICE INVITING TENDERSealed tender affixing non-refundable court fees stamp of
Rs. 8.25 (Rupees Eight and paise twenty five) only are invited
from the interested firm/person for sale of 06 (Six) timber lots
(Operated from seized timbers).
The lots are free for inspection at Bokakhat Range,
Bokakhat. The tender will be received up to 3.00 PM (IST) on
6th July, 2020 in the office of the Divisional Forest Officer,
Eastern Assam Wildlife Division, Bokakhat and will be opened
on the same day in presence of interested bidders or other
authorized representative and in the event of the office
remaining closed on 6th July, 2020 due to unavoidable
circumstances the tender will be received on the next working
day abiding by the same terms and conditions.
The details of the lot are available in the NIT which can be
obtained from the office of the DFO; Eastern Assam Wildlife
Division, Bokakhat during office working hours on payment
of Rs. 100/- (Rupees One Hundred) only on or before 3rd
July, 2020. The successful bidders will pay the departmental
operations cost in addition to his bid value.
The undersigned reserves the right to accept or reject any
tenders or all tenders without assigning any reason.
Sd/- Divisional Forest Officer
Eastern Assam Wildlife Division
Janasanyog/C/1762/20 Bokakhat.
SHORT RE-SALE NOTICESealed tenders affixing Court fee stamps worth of Rs. 8.25
(Rupees Eight and Paisa twenty five) only on each tender are
invited for Sale of Timber Lots under Aie Valley Division,
Bongaigaon. Details of Lot timbers & other terms and
conditions in the original sale notice can be procured from the
office of the undersigned during office hours of any working
day on payment of Rs. 50.00 (Rupees Fifty) only for Sale
Notice within 14.07.2020.
The intending Tenderers shall have to pay Rs. 5.00 (Rupees
Five) only for each Tender Form to submit tenders.
The date of receiving tenders have been fixed
on 15.07.2020 up to 3.00 P.M. (I.S.T.) in the office of
the undersigned. In case the office remains closed on that
day for any unforeseen or unavoidable reason, then
tenders will be received up to 3.00 P.M. (IST) on next working
day.
Sd/- Divisional Forest Officer
Aie Valley Division
Janasanyog/C/1755/20 Bongaigaon.
NIT No. 08 (RIDF-XXV, NABARD) 2020-21
SHORT NOTICE INVITING TENDERChief Engineer, Minor Irrigation, Assam on behalf of Governor
of Assam invites online bids for the works of ''Const'' of 7
(seven) Nos. of MDTW I/ Schemes (14 Pts) under RIDF-XXV
(NABARD amounting to Rs. 414.988 Lakh (Approx in 5 (five
packages under Sukla Division (Irrigation) Goreswar. Details
may be seen at website http://assamtenders.gov.in also in
the office of the undersigned during office hours from
26.06.2020 to 17.07.2020 up to 2 PM.
Sd/- Chief Engineer,
Minor Irrigation, Assam
Janasanyog/C/1732/20 Chandmari, Guwahati- 3
Dibrugarh municipalityareas submerged, eight
villages affected in Chabua
Youth commitssuicide
DIBRUGARH, June 24:
A 22-year-old youth report-
edly committed suicide in a
rehabilitation centre in Milan-
nagar here last night, accord-
ing to police. The youth, hail-
ing from Ghilamora, Dha-
khuwakhana, was admitted
some six months back for re-
habilitation purposes. – Staff
Correspondent
12 more testpositive at
NagaonA CORRESPONDENT
NAGAON, June 24: With-
in the last 24 hours, 12 more
persons tested positive for
COVID-19 at Nagaon, tak-
ing the total number of pos-
itive cases in the district to
494.
Meanwhile, around 27
positive patients, who were
being treated in various
COVID-19 hospitals in the
district, were discharged on
Wednesday after testing
negative. Among these pa-
tients, 19 were discharged
from Nagaon BP Civil Hospi-
tal, while eight patients from
Kandali Model Hospital.
Sources said that around
94 patients were currently
undergoing treatment in Na-
gaon BP Civil Hospital,
while 34 patients were un-
dergoing treatment in Mow-
amari Model Hospital, 21 in
Kandali Model Hospital and
11 patients in Ujaragaon
Model Hospital.
Besides, 175 stranded
people arrived at Nagaon on
Wednesday from outside the
State. Among those 141
were quarantined at various
COVID care centres in the
district, 22 persons were
quarantined at their homes,
while 12 persons were be-
ing quarantined at private
hotels in the town after col-
lecting their swabs samples.
On the other hand, around
the swab report of around 28
employees as well as the
other medical staff of Na-
gaon-Haiborgaon-based GD
Nursing Home, tested neg-
ative on Wednesday.
STAFF CORRESPONDENT
DIBRUGARH, June 24:
The residents of Dibrugarh
town woke up to yet another
flash flooding in the munici-
pality and its adjoining areas
here following heavy down-
pour since last night.
The artificial flood has yet
again laid bare the worth of
the existing and the ongoing
construction of the city’s
drainage system. The flood
waters have submerged all
areas within the 22 wards of
the municipality and the level
is only rising. The Dibrugarh
Town Protection (DTP) drain
is overflowing and, therefore,
spreading over to the resi-
dential and market areas of the
town.
Till this afternoon, nearly
knee-deep flood water inun-
dated residential homes, their
streets, commercial localities,
government office campuses
including the office of the
Deputy Commissioner area,
major roads of the town, be-
sides places of worship, edu-
cational and health establish-
ments.
People from areas like Gra-
ham Bazar, Gangapara, Nali-
apool, Kodomoni, Boiragim-
oth, Molukubasa, Shantipara,
Jhalukpara, West Chowkid-
inghee, Lachitnagar, PWD
Colony, Police Reserve, Amo-
lapatty and Rupnagar etc.,
have said that the flood wa-
ters have entered their living
rooms too.
As every locality is reeling
under the flood waters, the
deluge has crippled normal life
in the city. Traffic movement
and commercial activities
have remained affected due to
the impact.
While the gravity of the wa-
ter logging is felt in entire
municipality, the district ad-
ministration has however,
identified ten wards (ward no.
: 2, 5, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
as flooded areas and the rest
as water-logged areas. So far
no rain-related accidents
have been reported. Officials
from the administration in-
formed that pumps are being
used at different locations to
pump out water from the liv-
ing areas.
Elsewhere in Chabua rev-
enue circle area, some eight
villages have been affected by
floods again. The affected vil-
lages are Dodhia, Charkholia
Chapori, Chakia Chapori,
Tengabari-Mirigaon, Rong-
mola, Gereki, Gereki-Nepali
and Raidang. The population
affected counts to about 10622
and affected crop area is about
231 hectares. Cattle and birds
have also been affected in the
area, according to the district
officials.
CORRESPONDENT
SIVASAGAR, June 24: One
Sunanda Gogoi (66) of Bolia-
ghat in worst-hit Konwarpur
mouza died in the floods, which
has affected 47 villages in
Sivasagar district till today. The
deceased had gone out to col-
lect cattle fodder and was miss-
ing since yesterday. His body
was recovered by the local
people at around 3 pm today.
Two other persons, Sunil
Nath (22) of Santak and Ratul
Swarnakar of Moiramora gaon
– both of Nazira subdivision
died in the rising waters of
Dikhow on June 22 . State
Minister for Disaster Man-
agement Jogen Mohan distrib-
uted ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh to
the families of both the de-
ceased from Assam Disaster
Response Fund yesterday.
In Nazira subdivision 24 vil-
lages and in Sivasagar subdi-
vision 23 villages have been
submerged by the Brahmapu-
tra, which along with its tribu-
taries Desung, Dikhow, Dari-
ka, Mitong and Demow are
flowing above the danger mark,
according to an official release
received here. With heavy and
very heavy rainfall indicated
during the next 24 hours in the
catchment areas in Nagaland
of these tributaries by the
MET department, the flood
situation may turn worse.
Meanwhile, over 14,000
people and 4000 animals have
been affected. More than 800
individuals were shifted to 7
relief camps in Sivasagar and
Nazira. Ward no. 9, 10 and 14
are the worst-affected in
Sivasagar town. NDRF and
SDRF jawans have been res-
cuing marooned people from
the worst-affected areas in
Konwarpur, Boliaghat and So-
ley Gaon. The district adminis-
tration has begun distribution
of relief materials in the camps.
Dikhow flood waters have
flowed over the embankment
at Hanhchora and Boliaghat in-
undating the nearby Choulka-
ra, Konwarpur, Nakatani and
several other villages. Kon-
warpur HS School, Hanhcho-
ra HS School, Konwapur ME
School have been submerged.
Altogether 500 hectares of
crop land has been submerged
till Monday, Mun Gogoi, ADC,
Sivasagar informed.
Sivasagar dist flood death toll risesto 3, over 47 villages affected
CORRESPONDENT
DOOMDOOMA, June 24:
Due to incessant rain that has
been pouring since Tuesday
evening, flood waters coming
out of all the water bodies of
Doomdooma circle have inun-
dated many places here. A
bridge over a stream near
Rupai Tea Estate on Doom-
dooma-Baghjan Road col-
lapsed on Wednesday due to
the floods. Tinsukia DSP Bitul
Chetia had a narrow escape as
he had crossed the bridge just
a moment before it collapsed.
Communication between
Doomdooma and Baghjan area
was severely affected due to
the collapse of the bridge. It
would also affect the process
of dousing the fire of the burn-
ing gas well at BGR- 5 in Dulia-
jan. The Circle Officer of
Doomdooma Revenue Circle,
Nandita Roy Gohain, told this
correspondent that the engi-
neers of the PWD have al-
ready reached the site.
Another bridge over Bee-
sakopie stream, situated near
Bridge on Doomdooma-Baghjan road collapses
Rupbon on Doomdooma-
Baghjan road, is also in a dan-
gerous condition.
Meanwhile, incessant rain
that has been pouring for the
last 24 hours in the entire Tin-
sukia district as well as the
dawn-to-dusk Tinsukia district
bandh call given by ATTSA,
AASAA and ACMS in protest
against the murder of a night
chowkidar of Betjan TE of Ma-
kum by a group of thieves,
brought the normal life of the
district to a standstill on
Wednesday.
CORRESPONDENT
DHEMAJI, June 24: Flood
situation in Dhemaji district is
reported to be grim as flood
waters have submerged new
rural areas of Dhemaji, Sissi-
borgaon and Jonai revenue cir-
cles on Wednesday morning.
The rivers and streams of
the district are swelling due
to overnight heavy downpour
in upper reaches of Arunachal
hills sites and this has created
flood havoc in the riverine vil-
lages of the district.
As per ground report com-
piled by the circle officers,
over 60,000 people of 151 vil-
lages are reeling under flood
in the district. The flash flood
affected 47,000 people of 101
villages in Jonai circle (worse
affected) till this evening.
Water Resource depart-
ment sources said the water
level of the rivers is on the rise
and it might increase the
number of affected people till
Thursday.
The flood has breached
many rural roads, dykes and
embankments besides de-
stroying vast areas of wet cul-
tivation in the affected areas,
which is yet to be assessed.
The district administration
has set up three relief camps–
two at Dhemaji and one at
Jonai circle and it’s distribut-
ing food and other relief mate-
rials among the flood-hit.
Surging water of Jiyadhal in
Dhemaji circle has created
flood fury at Jiyadhal, Samara-
jan and Pachim Dhemaji areas,
while Gainadi water entered
through breached dykes and
flooded Sripani and Moridhal
villages on its right bank un-
der Sissioborgaon circle.
Likewise, overflowing water
of Lali, Sille and Jonai river in-
undated many villages under
Bahir-Silley, Bahir-Jonai and
Rayang-Bijoypur panchayats.
Swelling Siang and Lali riv-
ers today submerged all 4 parts
of Kobuchapori island which fall
under Jonai subdivision.
Flood scene grim in Dhemajidist; over 60,000 affected
CORRESPONDENT
DERGAON, June 24: Fol-
lowing a frontline worker test-
ing COVID-19 positive, func-
tioning of a government hos-
pital was suspended for the
first time in Golaghat district
on Wednesday. A frontline
worker of Kamar Bandha
(KB) Ali Primary Health Cen-
tre (PHC), who tested after
contact tracing, was found pos-
itive. Following this, the dis-
trict administration has sus-
pended all the activities of the
centre till the results of swab
tests of the staff come out.
A highly-placed medical
source said that a total of as
many as 79 swab samples of the
medical staff along with other
contacted persons were col-
lected today. After 37 new per-
sons tested positive and 8 pa-
tients were discharged, the ac-
tive cases have increased to 112
in Golaghat district as on today.
The 37 new cases includes
33 passengers while 4 are from
contact tracing. Among the 33
passengers, 31 were in insti-
tutional quarantine while 2
were in home quarantine.
Among the 4 other infected
persons, 2 are related to Gola-
ghat Nursing Home (GNH)
while 1 each from frontline
worker of KB Ali and Life Line
Hospital. All the new patients
were admitted at Swahid Kush-
al Konwar Civil Hospital
(SKKCH) designated as a Cov-
id hospital. The DIPRO in-
charge of Golaghat Papu Gogoi
said that the swab samples of all
the staff of KB Ali Primary
Health Centre were collected
and had been sent to Jorhat
Medical College and Hospital
(JMCH) for testing. He also said
that 107 COVID patients were
undergoing treatment at
SKKCH and 5 such patients
were under treatment at JMCH.
Though the question of com-
munity spread has been lurking
in the minds of Golaghat resi-
dents but Golaghat Deputy
Commissioner Bibhash Ch
Modi has clearly denied the fact.
“As all positive cases have
either directly or indirectly a
history, so no question of com-
munity spread is here,” the
DC said.
Functioning of govt hospitalsuspended in Golaghat
CORRESPONDENT
KOKRAJHAR, June 24: As
many as 47 persons tested pos-
itive for COVID-19 on Wednes-
day in Kokrajhar. According to
official sources, all these new
positive cases have been detect-
ed following swab test reports
of migrant workers staying at
different quarantine centres in
Kokrajhar district.
All the patients have been
shifted to designated COVID
hospital for care and treatment.
As of now, 162 active cases of
COVID have been found in
Kokrajhar, out of which 51 have
been discharged after recov-
ery so far, sources said.
Meanwhile, around 17,000
samples have been collected and
tested since the outbreak of the
pandemic till Wednesday. More-
over, 6,500 persons have been
released after home quarantine.
47 new cases detected inKokrajhar
10 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
BLONDIE
Know your DAYBy JACQUELINE BIGAR
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, June 25, 2020:
Empathic and original, you have a rare capacity for realizing your dreams.
You must keep the faith and plough on through this year. Financially, you will do
well, as you invest wisely. If single, your search for a mate demands more
objectivity as feelings frequently overwhelm you. If attached, you want to stay
attached forever. You are wonderfully nurturing to your partner but need to
watch your occasional outbursts of negativity. PISCES is ultra-sensitive.
The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-
Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)HHH It’s the perfect day to begin a new health treatment or regimen.
Tensions mounting in your personal or professional life require that
you pause and take stock, or blowups could occur. Wait until later before
making definite decisions. Tonight: A healthful dinner.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)HHH Lovers or children experience some strife and will be argumen-
tative, although personally you should not be badly affected. The urge
to get away from it all, if only for a few days, may be acute due to recent daily
responsibilities. Tonight: Catch up with family.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)HHH Today favors the help of an older family member. Big actions are
likely, as restlessness demands action. Do not bite off more than you
can chew. Go easy with dominating or bossy people. Tonight: Listen to some-
one you see every day for a suggestion.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)HHHH Your residence may need repair. A family member is tempera-
mental; communication helps resolve problems. You are trying to bal-
ance security needs with changing times at home. Today brings relief. A
relationship has wonderful potential. Tonight: Get a good night’s sleep.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)HHHHH You should be able to have more of a handle on your money
situation today. Undoubtedly, you are by now used to financial ups and
downs, but you will have reason to cheer due to new financial opportunities
coming your way. Tonight: Healing energies.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)HHHHH Social activities blossom today. If this does not help fill your
social calendar, nothing will. Take advantage of this time to purchase
clothes or otherwise improve your appearance. And be prepared: Your charm
and sex appeal are at an all-time high. Tonight: Date night.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)HHH Thoughts and actions will be turning inward. Today favors be-
hind-the-scenes activity. View this period as preparation for new ac-
tions to be taken. Try not to hold tensions in, as they will manifest in such
physical complaints as headaches. Tonight: Journal writing.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)HHH The bumpy ride some of you may have experienced in career
aims and life direction becomes a bit smoother as uncertainty clears
today – one way or another. Your yearning for distant places is increased. Make
plans. Tonight: Get feedback from friends.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)HHHH Although you may have felt a bit under the gun recently
regarding career matters, it looks as if serious discussions could lead
to solutions. Keep talking rather than acting. Or reacting. Rash actions might
get you into trouble with those in authority. Tonight: Relax.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)HHHHH Your popularity is heightened. Now is the time to make a
favorable personal impression or to improve your appearance. While
some of you may bring out your indulgent side with a mate, for others, intrigue
and sudden romance comes from afar. Tonight: Share the news.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)HHHH Today favors the formation of a sudden but very intense, even
obsessive, encounter. Meeting someone new may even bring a crisis
to a head with a previous relationship. Beware possessive tendencies in
yourself or in others. Tonight: Use your head and take stock.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)HH Do not be upset if you experience some craziness around you
today. The urge to take significant action of some kind, be it in a
committed relationship or pooling financial resources, is very strong. Tonight:
You may not feel ready; do not be pressured.
H H H
Thought for the day
Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.– ZINEDINE ZIDANE
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a __ __ to
the cooling influences of the world.
– Thomas Guthrie (8, 7)
Words: Geese, senor, online, fungus.Answer: Do it now. It is not safe to leave
a generous feeling to the cooling
influences of the world. – Thomas Guthrie
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‘Smart’ patch
No need to sweat it out anymore in these
social distancing times as scientists have
developed a wearable skin patch that
will monitor your health using simply your
sweat and nothing else.
The device will be on a patch applied to the
skin near sweat glands.
It consists of a small vial containing multiple
chambers that has a hydrophobic - water-
repelling - valve near the opening made of
silicone rubber.
The channel has a hydrophilic - water
attracting - coating for easy collection of the
sweat.
Unlike other devices that require two
openings, the single opening reduces the
amount of evaporation, leading to longer
storage time for later analysis, said the team
from Pennsylvania State University and
Xiangtan University who developed the
wearable device.
“We want to be able to analyze the sweat
from daily exercise or the heat of the sun
because in sweat we have a lot of biomarkers
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like pH and glucose that will be a nice
indicator for disease progression or diagnos-
tics,” said Huanyu ‘Larry’ Cheng, assistant
professor of engineering science and mechan-
ics, Penn State.
The pH or glucose level can be read by the
naked eye or a photo taken with a smart-
phone.
Also, the researchers can analyze the sweat
at different time points using different
chambers - called chrono-sampling.
“The two-valve device is more complicated
and requires using a clean-room technique
called photolithography. Our simpler one-
valve device can be made without expensive
equipment utilizing micromachining,” Cheng
said in a paper that appeared in the journal Lab
on a Chip.
The device will be of interest to the
healthcare industry, and particularly in
athletics, where it can be used to monitor
overheating or to adjust exercise levels for
optimum performance, said the researchers.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI 11BUSINESS & ECONOMY
No. 18PSC/DR-5/1/2020-2021
Assam Public Service Commission invites application from Indian Citizens as defined in Articles 5 to 8 of the Constitution of India for the under-
mentioned posts under Assam Government in the scale of pay as indicated below and carrying usual allowances as admissible under Rules of the Govt.
of Assam.
N.B.:- Candidates must submit a Declaration in the form-A appended along with the application form while applying for the post in response
to the advertisement made by the commission.
(A) 1. INAME OF THE POST :- Assistant Engineer (Civil) Under Panchayat And Rural Development Department.
2. NO. OF POST :- 222 (Two hundred and twenty two)
Name of the Open Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Grand Post
Service / Post Category for OBC/ for SC for STP for STH for EWS Total Reserved
MOBC for PWD
& Type of
Disability
Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW
*Reservation as per draft advertisement received from Government against total numbers of posts in the cadre.
3. SCALE OF PAY:- Rs. 30,000/- to 1,10,000/-; PB – 4 with Grade Pay of Rs.12,700/ plus other allowances as admissible under Rules of the Govt. of Assam.
4. Eligibility Criteria:-
(i) The candidate must be a permanent resident of Assam.
(ii) The candidate must produce PRC issued in Assam for educational purpose as a proof of residency along with the application form.
5. Educational Qualification:
(i) B.E or equivalent degree in Civil Engineering obtained from any institute approved by the AICTE and recognized by Government.
(ii) The Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering must be a Regular Course. Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering obtained through Distance Mode
of Education, by whatever name called, will not be accepted.
(iii) Apart from English, the candidate should have adequate knowledge of at least 1(one) official language of the State of Assam (i,e. Assamese/
Bengali/Bodo) except candidates belonging to Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council and Dima Hasao Autonomous Council.
*Reservation as per draft advertisement received from Government against total numbers of posts in the cadre.
3. SCALE OF PAY :- Rs. 14,000/- to 60,500/-; PB – 2 with Grade Pay of Rs.8,700/- plus other allowances as admissible under Rules of the Govt. of Assam.
4. Eligibility Criteria :-
(i) The candidate must be a permanent resident of Assam.
(ii) The candidate must produce PRC issued in Assam for educational purpose as a proof of residency along with the application form.
5. Educational Qualification:
(i) A Candidate must have passed Engineering (Diploma/Degree in Civil Engineering) obtained from any institution approved by the AICTE and
recognized by Government.
(ii) The Diploma/Degree in Civil Engineering must be a Regular Course. Diploma/Degree in Civil Engineering obtained through Distance Mode of
Education, by whatever name called, will not be accepted.
(iii) Apart from English, the candidate should have adequate knowledge of at least 1(one) official language of the State of Assam (i,e. Assamese/
Bengali/Bodo) except candidates belonging to Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council and Dima Hasao Autonomous Council.
6. AGE :- The candidates should not be less than 21 years of age and not more than 38. years of age as on 01-01-2020. The upper age limit is relaxable-
(i) By 5 years for SC/ST candidates, i.e. upto 43 years.
(ii) By 3 years for OBC/MOBC candidates i.e. upto 41 years as per Govt. Notification No. ABP. 6/2016/9 dated Dispur the 25th April 2018.
(iii) For Persons with Disabilities (PWD) by 10 years irrespective of SC/ST/OBC and General Category of candidates as per Govt. Notification
No. ABP 144/95/121 dated Dispur the 28th October, 2015.
The age limit of the candidates will be calculated on the basis of the Matriculation/HSLC Admit Card/ Certificate issued by a recognized Board/
Council and no other document shall be accepted in lieu of the mentioned documents.
For PWD Category Candidates:-
To be eligible for consideration under PWD category, a candidate must possess Benchmark Disability and must produce supporting necessary PWD
certificate issued by competent authority along with the application form.
(C) 1. NAME OF THE POST Assistant Architect under Public Works (Building & NH) Department.
2. NO. OF POST :- 11 (Eleven)
Name of the Open Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Grand Post
Service / Post Category for OBC/ for SC for STP for STH for EWS Total Reserved
MOBC for PWD
& Type of
Disability
Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW Total RFW
Assistant 4 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 11 2 NIL
Architect
under Public
Works
(Building & NH)
Department
*Reservation as per draft advertisement received from Government against total numbers of posts in the cadre.
3. SCALE OF PAY :- Rs. 30,000/- to 1,10,000/-; PB – 4 with Grade Pay of Rs.12,700/- plus other allowances as admissible under Rules of the Govt.
of Assam.
4. Eligibility Criteria :-
(i) The candidate must be a permanent resident of Assam.
(ii) The candidate must produce PRC issued in Assam for educational purpose as a proof of residency along with the application form.
5. Educational Qualification:
(i) Bachelors Degree in Architecture from an Indian or Foreign University recognized by the Government.
(ii) Should be registered with the Council of Architecture, India.
ASSAM PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONADVT. NO. 03/2020
Janasanyog/D/1602/20
(iii) Apart from English, the candidate should have adequate knowledge of at least 1(one) official language of the State of Assam (i,e.Assamese/Bengali/Bodo) except candidates belonging to Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council and Dima Hasao Autonomous Council.
6. AGE :- The candidates should not be less than 21 years of age and not more than 38 years of age as on 01-01-2020. The upper age limit is relaxable-
(i) By 5 years for SC/ST candidates, i.e. upto 43, years.
(ii) By 3 years for OBC/MOBC candidates i.e. upto 41 years as per Govt. Notification No. ABP. 6/2016/9 dated Dispur the 25th April 2018.
(iii) For Persons with Disabilities (PWD) by 10 years irrespective of SC/ST/OBC and General Category of candidates as per Govt. NotificationNo. ABP 144/95/121 dated Dispur the 28th October, 2015.
The age limit of the candidates will be calculated on the basis of the Matriculation /HSLC Admit Card/ Certificate issued by a recognized Board/Council and no other document shall be accepted in lieu of the mentioned documents.
7. For PWD Category Candidates:-
(i) OH with at least one arm and one leg.
(ii) Hearing handicapped may be considered if he or she can perform with the use of aids and appliances.
(iii) Low vision may be considered if he or she can perform with the use of aids and appliances.
(iv) To be eligible for consideration under PWD category, a candidate must possess Benchmark Disability and must produce supportingnecessary PWD certificate issued by competent authority along with the application form.
N.B: Since there is no. post reserved for PWD candidates they will have to compete with other candidates without any PWD reservation.
HOW TO APPLY
a. The candidates should carefully go through the terms and conditions of the advertisement, particularly (i) Educational qualification (ii) Agelimit and (iii) Experience where experience is necessary.
b. Only those candidates who fulfill all the terms and conditions of the advertisement in respect of the post for which they are applicants shallbe entertained. Others need not apply.
c. The candidates shall have to produce identity proof like Pan Card, Driving Licence, Passport, Current ID card issued by the educationalinstitutions, Voter ID Card, Aadhar Card (wherever applicable) at the time of Screening/Written test and Viva-Voice/ Interview.
d. The candidates should visit the commission’s website www.apsc.nic.in regularly. If the commission decides to hold written examination/screening test, the syllabus will be uploaded only in the APSC website.
e. The name of the post applied for should be clearly written in “bold letters” in the Envelope containing the application form and it should beaddressed to the Deputy Secretary, APSC, Jawaharnagar, Khanapara, Guwahati-781022.
f . Application form may be obtained by downloading from the APSC’s website www.apsc.nic.in . Application form DR (New form).
g. The last date of receiving duly filled up application form in the Commission’s office is fixed on 24-07-2020 during office hours.
h. Applications (including applications received through post) received after the last date fixed for receipt shall not be entertained.
i. Only applications which are signed by the candidates and accompanied by all particulars as called for in the application form prescribed bythe Commission shall be considered and candidates fulfilling all the terms of the advertisement of the respective posts shall be called fora Screening/Written test / Viva-voce interview, where necessary and as decided by the Commission.
j. (i) All candidates, whether in Government Service or in Government owned undertaking or other similar organizations/Corporations/boards/or in private employment may intimate their controlling authority instead of routing it through them. However, the fact of the endorsementby the controlling officer may be duly intimated to the Commission by the candidate. In cases where the applications are to be movedthrough proper channel as per terms of advertisement or subsequent announcements, the applications must be received before the lastdate of submission of the applications.
(ii) The Commission shall in no way be responsible if any candidate is not allowed to sit in the examination or after appointment is notreleased by the concerned authority.
k. The candidates must clearly state the documents enclosed with the application in the relevant section of the application form.
APPLICATION FEES :
As per Govt. Notification No. FEG.32/2016/8-A dated Dispur the 28th October, 2016 communicated vide letter No. ABP.60/2014/11 dated 2ndFebruary 2018 the Application Fees for all post under the State Govt. of Assam shown as below:
1. For General/EWS Candidate: Rs.250/- (Rupees two hundred and fifty) only.
2. For SC/ST/OBC/MOBC: Rs. 150/- (Rupees one hundred and fifty) only.
3. For BPL Candidate: Nil (Candidate having BPL certificate should produce their photocopy of certificate along with the Application Form).
4. As per Govt. Notification No. ABP 144/95/121 dated Dispur the 28th October, 2015 for persons with disabilities (PWD) candidates, theApplication Fees for all posts under the State Govt. of Assam is Nil. PWD candidates should enclose with the application from photocopyof necessary certificate from a competent authority.
Fees should be deposited through Treasury Challan in the Head of Account “NON TAX REVENUE, OTHER NON TAX REVENUE 0051 PSC,105 STATE PSC APPLICATION FEE RECEIPT OF APSC” showing name of post and department. Original copy of Treasury Challanshould be submitted along with the application form.
ORFees can be deposited online using Government Receipt Accounting System-GRAS (Website: https://assamegras.gov.in). Candidatesmay pay the requisites fees (as admissible for the category mentioned above). Printed copy of Treasury Challan generated through GRASshould be submitted along with the application form. In Remarks column, candidate may write post applied for.
HOW TO FILL UP THE FORM:
a. Applicants must affix 1 (One) copy of recent photograph firmly on the space provided in the application form with good quality glue/adhesiveand should also enclose another copy along with the application form. The photograph must be signed prominently. The Commission shallnot be responsible for detachment/ loss of the photograph.
b. Since the practice of furnishing attested copies of certificates/mark sheets etc. by competent authority has been discontinued by theGovt., the applicant shall furnish copies of certificate/mark sheet etc. declared by himself/herself as “certified to be true copy of the original”along with the application form.
c. Applications must be accompanied by self attested copies of the under-mentioned documents, which should be tagged well without anychance of getting lost in transit.
Applications which are not accompanied by anyone of the under-mentioned documents/ requirements will not be entertained.
1. Original treasury Challan depositing prescribed application fee wherever necessary as per terms of advertisement containing detailsof posts applied for.
2. Age proof certificate (HSLC/Class X Board Admit Card/Pass Certificate).
3. Certificates & mark sheets of all examinations from HSLC onwards up to the level of qualifying examination.
4. Caste certificate (wherever necessary) of reserved categories issued by appropriate authority.
5. Disability certificate(wherever necessary)
6. Two copies of recent passport size photograph with white background.
7. Signature( scanned copy to be uploaded in online mode when available)
8. Experience certificates (wherever necessary) indicating the period of Service/Experience with dates.
Self attested photocopies should be tagged properly without any chance of getting lost during transit. The Commission will not be responsiblefor any such loss due to improper tagging.
Incomplete application in terms of the Advertisement will be summarily rejected. No documents will be entertained after the last date ofsubmission of application.
POINTS TO NOTE:
1. The candidates before applying for the post(s)/service(s) should ensure that they fulfill all the eligibility conditions. Their admission at allthe stages of selection in which they are admitted by the Commission will be purely provisional and under scrutiny, subject to their satisfyingthe prescribed eligibility conditions. If on verification at any time or any stage before or after the Preliminary Examination/ScreeningExamination or/and Main/Written Examination and’Interview Test, it is found that they do not fulfill any of the eligibility conditions; theircandidature for the post(s)/service(s) will be cancelled by the Commission.
2. It is for the candidates themselves to see whether they satisfy the prescribed physical requirement (physical standard) and whether lie/sheis eligible to apply where Examination of physical standard is conducted by the State Govt. before making any appointment.
3. No request for withdrawal of candidature received from a candidate after he/she has submitted his/her application will be entertained underany circumstances.
4. At any stage of the selection process no candidate shall be allowed to change his/her category (of caste etc)/sub-category/sub-categoriesas claimed by him/her in the original application form/online application form submitted to the Commission.
5. The candidates who furnish wrong, erroneous or incorrect information in their application form may be disqualified from appearing for anypost before the Commission up to a period to be specified by the Commission.
6. In case of detection of any false declaration / statement made by any applicant, his/her application will be rejected and will also be penalizedas per prevailing Rules/Law. If in any case, submission of false material facts with a view to hoodwinking the Commission is detected evenafter the recommendation is made, the Commission may refer the matter to Government for taking necessary action.
DIRECT RECRUITMENT:
The selection procedure will be notified later on followed by issuing corrigendum/addendum, if required.
The commission will decide the provision for selection in respect of any post/posts or service/ services considering the status, cadre andgrade or the number of applications received for the advertised post/posts or service/ services.
The Commission will also decide to conduct examination/test etc. zone wise, depending upon the numbers of candidates against the districtsshown below:
Sl NO Name of Zones Districts covered under the Zones
5 Kokrajhar Bongaigaon, Chirang, Dhubri, Goalpara, Kokrajhar, South Salmara
6 Guwahati Barpeta, Baksa, Kamrup, Kamrup (Metro), Nalbari and Darrang
NB: The Commission has the discretion to reduce or increase the number of zones depending upon the number of candidates.
The list of candidates whose applications are found valid or rejected after scrutiny will be made available in the Assam Public Service Commission’swebsite (www.apsc.nic.in) showing grounds of rejection in due course.
The Advertisement has been issued as per the sevice rule.
Sd/- Under SecretaryAssam Public Service Commission
Jawaharnagar, Khanapara, Guwahati-22
NEW DELHI, June 24: The govern-ment today said that all urban coopera-tive banks and multi-State cooperativebanks will come under the supervisionof the Reserve Bank of India, a develop-ment aimed at providing comfort to de-positors and prevent repeat of PMCBank-like scams.
The President of India will promul-gate an ordinance to this effect, Informa-tion and Broadcasting Minister PrakashJavadekar told reporters after the meet-ing of the Union Cabinet.
Terming it a landmark decision, theminister said 1,540 urban cooperativebanks and multi-State cooperative bankswill be brought under the RBI supervi-sory process as is applicable in case of
Coop banks to come under RBI supervision: Govtscheduled commercial banks.
“...depositors (of cooperative banks)will get protection and benefit from thisdecision,” Javadekar said.
There are 1,482 urban cooperative banksand 58 multi-State cooperative banks hav-ing about 8.6 crore depositors with totalsavings deposit of about Rs 4.85-lakh crore.
The decision assumes significance in thewake of a scam in the Punjab and Mahar-ashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank and someother cooperative banks affecting lakhs ofcustomers who are facing difficulty in with-drawing their money due to restrictionsimposed by the Reserve Bank of India.
The RBI had placed regulatory curbson the PMC Bank on September 23,2019, after finding out certain financial
irregularities and misreporting of loansgiven to real estate developer HDIL.
Earlier this month, the RBI had putrestrictions on withdrawals from People’sCooperative Bank, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharamanhad introduced ‘The Banking Regulation(Amendment) Bill, 2020’ in Lok Sabhaon March 3, 2020, which is pending ap-proval. The proposed law sought to en-force banking regulation guidelines of theRBI on cooperative banks.
In her February 1 Budget speech, Sith-araman had proposed amendments to theBanking Regulation Act with an aim toincreasing professionalism and improv-ing governance among the cooperativebanks. – PTI
NEW DELHI, June 24:The DPIIT today soughtviews of e-commerce firmslike Amazon and Flipkart onmentioning the ‘country oforigin’ on each product soldthrough their platforms, ac-cording to sources.
The e-commerce compa-nies said displaying the infor-mation is doable, but theyneed some time to implementit, the sources added.
The issue was discussed indetail at a meeting convenedby the Department for Pro-motion of Industry and Inter-nal Trade (DPIIT).
DPIIT seeks views of e-comm firmsRepresentatives of e-
This comesagainst thebackdrop ofcalls to boy-cott Chinese goods followingborder clashes between Indiaand China in Ladakh.
The government procure-ment portal GeM has made itmandatory for suppliers/sell-ers to specify the country of
origin while registering newproducts on the portal.
According to the sources,mentioning the country of or-igin would help buyers takean informed decision whilepurchasing the item.
“It was toldto the compa-nies that coun-try of origin
should be displayed promi-nently on the products. Thecompanies stated that it is do-able, but they need some timefor this,” a source said.
Another company sourcesaid there was no disconnect
with the idea, but the firms haveto check with their technologyteams to figure out how long itwill take to get this done.
“We welcome and whole-heartedly support the govern-ment’s decision to promoteMake in India and Atmanirb-har Bharat. We are fully com-mitted to promote India-madeproducts and the manufactur-ing sector in the country.
“We have already initiateddiscussions with our sellers,merchant partners on the nextsteps to drive this initiativefurther,” a Paytm Mall spokes-person said. – PTI
Mentioning ‘countryof origin’ on products
12 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATISPORTS
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
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Originating from Japan,
‘su do ku’ is a mind game
and a puzzle that can be
solved with proper
reasoning and logic. Fill
the grid with digits in such
a manner that every row,
every column and every
3 x 3 box accommodates
the digits 1 to 9 without
repeating any.
Solution of last problem
SU DO KU
ROME, June 24: Three
matches into the restart,
Napoli coach Gennaro Gat-
tuso can celebrate three dif-
ferent achievements.
In the Partenopei’s latest
performance on Tuesday, re-
serve forwards Arkadiusz
Milik and Hirving Lozano
scored in a 2-0 win at Hellas
Verona in Serie A. That fol-
lowed Napoli’s Italian Cup
victory in a penalty shootout
victory over Juventus for its
first title in six years.
Before that, Dries
Mertens broke Napoli’s all-
time scoring record in the
southern club’s first match
back – a draw with Inter Mi-
lan that earned a trip to the
cup final.
Milik, the subject of trans-
fer speculation, scored with
a header off a corner at the
end of the first half. Then
Napoli win at Verona, keep building under GattusoLozano, who was kicked out
of training last week by Gat-
tuso due to a lack of effort,
sealed the win with a header
in the 90th – shortly after
coming on.
“I don’t like to hold grudg-
es,” Gattuso said of Lozano.
“But I strongly believe
that when you’re part of a
football club everyone needs
to be on the same wave-
length. You always have to
train at 100 per cent.”
Gattuso has led a quick
turnaround since replacing
the fired Carlo Ancelotti in
December, when Napoli was
in crisis with players boy-
cotting a training camp or-
dered by club president Au-
relio De Laurentiis.
“The squad has improved.
The team is in form,” Gattu-
so said.
“It’s a team that knows
how to keep the opposition
from scoring, that knows how
to pass very well.”
Before kickoff, Napoli
sporting director Cristiano
Giuntoli confirmed that Mi-
lik will be offered to other
clubs if he doesn’t agree to a
contract extension.
“It’s up to him,” Gattuso
added of Milik, who now has
10 goals this season despite
alternating with Mertens at
centre forward.
“He’s one of the strongest
forwards in the world right
now.”
Napoli moved within three
points of fifth-place Roma,
which plays Sampdoria on
Wednesday.
Promoted Verona, which
had a second-half equaliser
disallowed by the VAR, is
eighth.
“I haven’t seen many
teams play well against Ve-
rona,” Gattuso said.
“We played a great match
both with and without the
ball.”
Two seasons removed
from Serie B, Parma is fight-
ing for a spot in Europe.
Andreas Cornelius scored
a hat-trick and Dejan Kulu-
sevski added another as Par-
ma won 4-1 at Genoa to move
into seventh place.
Cornelius also scored a
hat-trick against Genoa in
October.
Also, Andrea Bellotti
scored as Torino beat Udi-
nese 1-0; and Cagliari won 1-
0 at relegation-threatened
Spal with a late header from
Giovanni Simeone.
Cooling breaks were held
in the early games.
All the matches are being
played in empty stadiums. – APNapoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly (L) vies with Verona’s Samuel DiCarmine during the Serie A match in Verona, Italy.
MADRID. June 24: Bar-
celona earned a hard-fought
1-0 win against Athletic Bil-
bao to put the pressure back
on Real Madrid in the Span-
ish league.
Ivan Rakitic’s second-half
winner on Tuesday moved
Barcelona back in front of
Madrid ahead of the rival’s
home match against relega-
tion-threatened Mallorca on
Wednesday.
Rakitic broke the deadlock
in the 71st minute to leave
Barcelona three points in
front of Madrid, which can
retake the lead with a win
because it has better tie-
breakers.
“We can’t worry about our
rival, just about us,” Barce-
lona coach Quique Setin said.
“We needed to win, and
now we wait to see what
Barca edge past Athletic 1-0 to regain top spot
Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic celebrates after scoring against Athletic Bilbao during the La Liga match at the Camp Nou in Barcelona.
happens in their match.”
Rakitic scored less than 10
minutes after coming off the
bench, firing a right-foot shot
into the corner after an as-
sist by Lionel Messi.
“It was an important win
in a very difficult match,”
Rakitic said.
“It took a while for us to
get into the match. They did
well by not giving us a lot of
space.”
It was Rakitic’s first goal
for Barcelona since March
2019.
“It took 31 rounds for me
to finally score my first goal
of the season,” he said.
“I was mad at myself that
it took so long.” Messi, who
turns 33 on Wednesday, again
wasn’t able to score his mile-
stone 700th career goal for
club and country. He came
close twice with shots that
just missed the target late in
the second half.
Barcelona was coming off
a 0-0 draw at Sevilla, a result
that allowed Madrid to take
over the lead for the first time
since the league resumed af-
ter the pandemic break.
Athletic, which has won
only one of its four matches
after the break, dropped to
10th place.
Atletico Madrid extended
its good run after the pan-
demic break with a 1-0 win
at Levante.
An own-goal by Bruno
Gonzalez in the 15th minute
gave Atletico its third
straight win and moved Di-
ego Simeone’s team back
into third place in the stand-
ings. Atletico is two points
ahead of Sevilla, which had
temporarily moved in front
after a 2-2 draw at Villarreal
on Monday.
Atletico was sixth when
the league was interrupted
by the coronavirus, but its
winning run – coupled with a
series of poor results by its
rivals – allowed the team to
quickly get back into the
Champions League places.
“Happy for another victo-
ry and for these very impor-
tant three points that take us
closer to our goal of qualify-
ing for the Champions
League,” Atletico midfielder
Marcos Llorente said.
Gonzalez found his own net
while trying to intercept a
cross from Llorente to Di-
ego Costa inside the area.
Atletico is six points clear
of fifth-place Getafe, which
drew 1-1 at Valladolid. – AP
LONDON, June 24: Har-
ry Kane had to watch help-
lessly while recovering from
surgery as Tottenham’s
Champions League qualifica-
tion hopes slipped away.
It looked like Kane’s sea-
son was over – until the Pre-
mier League was suspended
for three months.
Now, at a time when the
striker expected to be play-
ing for England at the Euro-
pean Championship, he is
back scoring for Tottenham.
On his 200th Premier
League appearance, Kane
KARACHI, June 24: Former Pakistan cap-
tain Mohammed Hafeez has tested negative
for COVID-19, a day after the
PCB found him positive for the
virus ahead of the team’s much-
anticipated tour of England.
Hafeez and Wahab Riaz
were among the 10 Pakistan
players, who tested positive
for COVID-19 on Tuesday.
The team is due to leave for
England on Sunday for a Test
and T20 series in August.
On Wednesday, Hafeez took
to twitter and clarified that he
and his family members have
tested negative and also posted the medical
report to back his claim.
“After Tested positive COVID-19 acc to
Regret casualattitude that led tomy ban: Shakib
NEW DELHI, June 24: Star Bangladesh
all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan deeply regrets
his “silly mistake” of not reporting a
corrupt approach by an Indian bookie to the
ICC, leading to his one year suspension
from the game.
Shakib was banned for two years, one
year of it suspended, for failing to report
corrupt approaches during an IPL edition by
an alleged Indian bookie named Deepak
Aggarwal.
“I took the approaches too casually. When
I met the anti-corruption guy and told them
and they knew everything. Gave them all
the evidence and they knew everything
that happened,” Shakib told Harsha Bhogle
on ‘Cricbuzz in Conversation’.
“To be honest, that’s the only reason I
was banned for a year, otherwise I’d have
been banned for five or 10 years,” he added
on the ICC’s investigation.
The 33-year-old, who was in brilliant
form before the ban, amassing 606 runs in
the 2019 World Cup in the UK, said he
regrets how he went about the situation.
“But I think that was a silly mistake I
made. Because with my experience and the
amount of international matches I’ve played
and the amount of ICC’s anti-corruption
code of conduct classes I took, I shouldn’t
have made that decision, to be honest.”
Lesson learnt, Shakib’s advice to all
young cricketers is to never take any such
message lightly. – PTI
MELBOURNE, June 24:
Star Australia off-spinner
Nathan Lyon on Wednesday
said that a Test series against
India is equivalent to the Ash-
es and come December, their
team will come out all guns
blazing to avenge the series
defeat of 2018-19.
India beat Australia 2-1
during the last series in 2018-
19, which was the first time
that the visitors won a series
in 71 years.
“You definitely don’t like
losing games or series while
playing for Australia. Obvi-
ously, India, a couple of years
ago, they outplayed us. So we
are looking to have those guys
come out here,” Lyon told
NEW DELHI, June 24: Deliberation on the nomina-
tion process for its next chairman will top the agenda
when the International Cricket Council’s all-powerful
board converges via video-conference on Thursday.
With the ICC already making it clear that a final deci-
sion on the fate of this year’s T20 World Cup will be
taken next month, the primary agenda of discussion will
be the nomination process for the chairman’s election.
The post is currently held by India’s Shashank Manohar.
“I am still not sure whether the date of election (or
selection) will be announced tomorrow or not. Obvi-
ously the primary agenda is discussion on the nomina-
tion process for Shashank Manohar’s replacement,” an
ICC board member, privy to the developments, told
PTI on conditions of anonymity.
“Obviously, since the members will meet, they will
update (the board) about the situation in their respec-
tive countries. However, no concrete announcement is
expected,” the source added.
Also, the board could be briefed on the investigations
being carried on the leaks of classified emails, a member
said. For being in the running for the chairman’s post, a
member is required to have attended a minimum of two
board meetings and also needs to be nominated by a
current or past director (board member) of the repre-
sentative country.
An ICC Board comprises chairman, 12 Test playing na-
tions, three associate members (Malaysia, Scotland and
Singapore as per this turn), independent female director
(Indra Nooyi) and chief executive Manu Sawhney. – PTI
Archer toundergo second
COVID testLONDON, June
24: England fast
bowler Jofra Archer
will undergo a sec-
ond round of COV-
ID-19 test before
joining the national
team’s training
camp in Southamp-
ton on Thursday.
The England and
Wales Cricket
Board (ECB) said in
a statement that the
Sussex bowler will
join England’s behind-closed-doors training
camp on Thursday after a member of his
household felt unwell over the weekend.
“Archer, and members of his household,
have tested negative for COVID-19. He will
have a second test on Wednesday, and if he
tests negative, he will join up with the training
group on Thursday,” the ECB statement said.
The rest of the group and the England man-
agement team had already arrived at the
Ageas Bowl in Southampton on Tuesday af-
ternoon to start their preparation ahead of
the #RaiseTheBat first Test against West In-
dies starting on July 8.
But according to media reports, not just
Archer but all the 30 negative-returned Eng-
lish cricketers will undergo a second round of
COVID-19 tests before entering the Ageas
Bowl’s bio-secure bubble for full-scale train-
ing for the series against West Indies. – PTI
Kane back scoring for Spursthanks to pause in season
scored his first goal of 2020
after Tomas Soucek’s own
goal to complete a 2-0 victo-
ry over West Ham on Tues-
day, moving Tottenham with-
in a point of the Champions
League places.
“When you have been out
for over six months it’s just
getting that feeling back on
the pitch,” said Kane, who
moved to 137 league goals
overall.
“You can train as much as
you want but being out here
is totally different. So very
different, these days.”
For one, there were no
fans in the stadium due to the
coronavirus pandemic.
Group celebrations are also
prohibited. So there was only
a solo slide across the field,
and Erik Lamela briefly go-
ing to jump on Kane’s back
before withdrawing.
It was Lamela who gained
possession inside his own half
to launch the counterattack that
ended with Son Heung-min
releasing the ball and Kane rac-
ing through the porous defence
before striking into the net in
the 82nd minute. – AP
Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane (R) controls the ball during the Premier League matchagainst West Ham United at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
Lyon rates India-Oz series at par with Ashesreporters in a video on Crick-
et Australia’s Facebook page.
“It’s getting up there to
the pinnacle series alongside
Ashes. Obviously, they have
got a side full of superstars
and it’s going to be an amaz-
ing challenge this summer
when they get out here.”
Lyon was part of the Aus-
tralian Test side that lost 1-2
to India in the 2018-19 home
series. It was incidentally the
first time India had won a Test
series in Australian soil.
India are scheduled to tour
Australia later this year for a
four-Test series starting De-
cember 3 in Brisbane.
Lyon, 32, has been Aus-
tralia’s premier spinner for
the last 10 years but it was
first time that he got a pre-
season break, courtesy the
COVID-19 pandemic.
“I haven’t had a pre-season.
This is basically my first winter
in 10 years. It’s exciting to be
home and just to be around all
the boys here and all the rook-
ies as well trying to pass on a
little bit of knowledge,” he said.
“Have I started bowling?
I’ve been doing a bit of bowl-
ing-coaching with young Ben
Manenti from the Sydney
Sixers, so I’ve been bowling
with him a fair bit over the
last three to four weeks.”
A refreshed Lyon is ex-
pected to pose a serious
threat to India later this sum-
mer, but the bowler himself
is not certain about the re-
sumption of cricket disrupt-
ed by the pandemic.
“Well we know that some-
thing will come eventually.
We’re getting some really
good preparation under the
belt and can enjoy spending
some time at home,” he said.
Lyon said he will be close-
ly following the England-
West Indies series beginning
next month in a “bio-secure”
environment.
“I’ll put Kayo on and make
sure the game’s on the TV
there. I’ll try and watch dif-
ferent players and see how
they go about their business,”
he said. – PTI
Day after being declaredpositive, Hafeez tests negative
PCB testing Report yesterday, as 2nd opin-
ion & for satisfaction I personally went to Test
it again along with my family
and here I along with my all
family members are report-
ed Negative (sic) Alham du
Lillah. May Allah keep us all
safe,” Hafeez tweeted.
Fakhar Zaman, Imran Khan,
Kashif Bhatti, Mohammad
Hasnain, Mohammad Rizwan,
Shadab Khan, Haider Ali and
Haris Rauf are the other eight
players who tested positive as
per PCB Chief Executive
Wasim Khan.
PCB had earlier said all who have tested
positive did not report any symptoms prior
to testing. – PTI
Hafeez
Lyon
Nomination processfor next chairmanprimary agenda
ICC Board Meet
Archer
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GUWAHATI, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
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One evening, I saw two little abandoned kittens hiding in some bushes in the garden. Both of them were extremely terrified and helpless. I felt so bad to see these
little creatures crying; they had probably not eaten for a long time. My father, after a lot of struggle, managed to get hold of them. Biscuits and milk were served to them, but the kittens were so young that they hardly managed to feed themselves. Papa decided to give one of the kittens to his friend, who
How to remain positive during
these times.
Who was Tojo Hideki?
Aadrika Bhattacharyya, Class-IV,
Nurture International School, Dibrugarh.
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CREATIVE ENDEAVOUR
OF THE MONTH
Chaandneeka Choudhury,Guwahati.
The person who influenced me the most.The first person to have influenced me greatly was my grandfather – late Jogendra Prasad Baruah. I remember my early years, when he used to be there with me consistently, guiding me, teaching me, and he always had my back.
The turning point of my life...Was when I joined the fight against COVID-19. It is risky and exhausting work, but my husband continues to support me unstintingly.
The happiest moments in my life.There have been innumerable happy moments in my life! Two of the happiest moments were definitely when I entered motherhood, not once, but twice.
A change I would like to see in the society.By constantly evolving, by being in sync with Nature, by selfless service to fellow beings we can change the society.
Message for today’s youth.Do not forget who you are. Aim for the stars while being rooted to the ground.
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It is very tough for us to stay positive when the entire world is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The word positive is now seen as ‘negative’, while the word negative is deemed to be good, maybe for the first time in history. But, there is also a good side to this pandemic. There has been a revolution in online education. Even though development has slowed down, through online classes, a new kind of development is simultaneously happening. Another thing that we had noticed was that the pollution levels went down during the first phase of lockdown. So, think positive thoughts and the hard days would soon be over.
Well, the first step to remain positive during these times is to follow a healthy diet. As our physical activities have decreased, it would be best to start our day with some yoga. And, other than sticking to our phones all day long, we should take up some activities like art and craft, cooking, baking, playing indoor games like ludo, chess, etc. We should also read the newspaper everyday and watch the news on TV. And, of course, let us not forget to do our homework!
We all know that the current situation is a difficult one and it is very essential for us to stay positive. Being optimistic might seem like an obvious idea, but it is really very important. We can achieve this by being generous and helping others. Being generous doesn’t necessarily mean we have to spend money. We can start maintaining a journal where we can write down three things that we are grateful for, everyday. This will help us erase some negativity from our lives. Lastly, we should utilise our time and make productive use of it. We can start a new hobby or continue an old one.
Triparna Baruah,
St. Mary’s H.S. School,
Guwahati.
Trandali Kashyap,
Class-X, Shrimanta
Shankar Academy,
Guwahati.
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Ankita Bharadwaz,
Class-XII, Ramanujan
Academy, Baihata
Chariali.Pomi Baruah, A.C.S, OSD to the National
Health Mission, has been at the forefront of
Assam’s fi ght against COVID-19.
Due to the ongoing lockdown, we are unable to go to school. So, we are feeling bored at home. We can remain positive by doing our chores, such as cleaning up our rooms, our cupboards, etc. As most teachers from different schools are giving notes and doing online classes, we can attend them. We can play football or cricket in our compounds; physical activity is good for health. We can go through our new books and watch our favourite movies with our family.
Lahar Mridu Mazumdar,
Class-VI, Maria’s
Public School, Birkuchi,
Guwahati.
The lost kitten
took the healthier of the two. But pets are not allowed inside our apartment, so I put the other kitten in a safe place and gave some food for the night.
The next morning, when I opened the door to get the newspaper, I found the
kitten sitting outside my apartment. The first thing that struck me was how did the tiny kitten climb the staircase and reach the third floor of the building. The kitten entered my home and started following me. I enjoyed the company of my new-found friend and called her “Meme”. Meme seemed tired and sleepy; perhaps, she did not get sound sleep in the cold
night. After several attempts, she climbed the sofa and fell asleep immediately. She woke up and realising that our main door was open, she walked up to the next floor.
But sometime later, she came to my house again, ate some food and went to sleep on the sofa. In the evening, I found our main door open again, and Meme had disappeared from the sofa. I went outside and looked for her. But, there was no response and no trace of Meme. I cried a lot because Meme had simply vanished.
Ira Trivedi’s Om the Yoga Dog, published by Puffin, is a new children’s book that provides a simple stepwise guide to children on yoga, with easy asanas and beneficial breathing techniques. It appeared as an e-book on
International Yoga Day on Sunday, and the print edition will be out next month. The characters are Om – the dog, Prana – the frog, and Moksha – the elephant, and they will teach young readers about the benefits of asanas, pranayama and meditation, in a playful and motivating way. Om’s story is based on Trivedi’s pet Beagle of the same name.
Spare the rod…Excessively strict parenting may stunt your emotional development.
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CONTRIBUTOR OF
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Aadrika Bhattacharyya,Dibrugarh.
POEM OF THE WEEK
Tannistha Sarmah Bordoloi,Guwahati.
SKETCH OF THE WEEK
Jishnu Shreya Choudhury, Guwahati.
Teenagers with overly strict parents struggle to form emotional relationships when they get older, researchers claim. Researchers from the University of Virginia found that children with overbearing and controlling parents at
13 also have trouble with educational attainment by age 32.
This goes against the traditional maxim of ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’, with researchers saying strict parents risk harming their child’s long-term prospects. Lead author Dr. Emily Loeb says that parents, educators and doctors should be aware of how parents’ attempts to control teens may be stunting their progress.
“This style of parenting likely creates more than a temporary setback for adolescent development because it interferes with the key task of developing autonomy at a critical period,” said Loeb.
For this new study, the team set out to determine the long-term impact on youth of parenting that is psychologically controlling. Loeb said
that parents attempt to control their children in this way through ‘intrusive’ and ‘harshly manipulative’ means. This includes withdrawing love and affection when the parent is angry at the child, or making the child feel guilty for upsetting the parent. She said that children whose parents use such tactics tend to have problems such as lower grades and lower self-esteem, most likely because children are discouraged from asserting themselves and gaining independence.
The findings were published in the journal Child Development.
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T ojo Hideki (1884-1948) was a Japanese army general who served as the country’s Prime Minister from 1941 to 1944, during World War II (1939-1945).
Born in Tokyo, Tojo was the son of an army general. He attended the Imperial Military Academy in 1905, and
graduated from the Army Staff College at the top of his class in 1915. Tojo established a reputation as an efficient, decisive, and aggressive staff officer; his tough disciplinary policies earned him the nickname ‘The Razor’. He was called back to Tokyo in 1938 to serve as the Vice Minister of War. An ardent supporter of a strong offensive in the Second Sino-Japanese War, Tojo was promoted to war minister in 1940. Tojo became convinced that Nazi Germany would win the ongoing war in Europe, and supported Japan’s signing of an alliance with Germany and Italy; the three countries became known as the Axis Powers.
As tensions with the United States mounted in 1941, Tojo again took a hardline position. He opposed any compromise that might undermine Japan’s position in East Asia or diminish its national prestige. By the Fall of that year, it appeared that Japan’s entry
into World War II was inevitable. Tojo, viewed as a man who could both represent military interests and keep the army under firm control, was named Prime Minister in October. In December 1941, his cabinet of civil and military officials decided to declare war on the United States and attack the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Although Tojo never became a dictator like Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini, he assumed more and more authority as the war progressed.
In 1944, substantial Allied victories in the Pacific undercut Tojo’s political position. American forces captured the island of Saipan, putting Japan within reach of American long-range bombers. Forced to take responsibility for this setback, Tojo resigned as Prime Minister in July 1944 and remained in retirement until the end of the war.
Bottles are narrow-necked containers, primarily used for holding liquid and semi-liquid substances. A bottle usually has a close-fitting stopper or
cap to protect or to hold its contents from spilling, evaporating, or coming into contact with foreign substances. Liquids and other substances then can be poured from the bottle through an opening at the top of the container. Bottles have traditionally been made of glass, but they may also be made of clay, metal, or plastic. The mouths of bottles vary in size from wide to narrow, and they are normally sealed with corks, glass stoppers, or metal or plastic caps.
Various industries use bottles to pack-age their products. The food industry has replaced glass bottles, in many cases, with aluminium cans, cartons, and plastic bottles. Medications such as cough syrup and liquid antacid are sold in glass or plastic bottles. Cleaning solvents and many beauty supplies are usually sold in plastic bottles. Perfume
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companies often package their prod-ucts in bottles with unique designs so that consumers associate the bottle’s shape with a particular scent.
The earliest contain-ers for liquids were dried gourds and animal skins. Clay bottles appeared thousands of years ago. Ancient Greeks and Romans used large earthenware jars and vases called amphorae to store
and transport liquids. Sometime before 1500 BC, Egyptians became
the first to make glass bottles. They used the bottles to store cosmet-ics, ointments, and perfumes. The bottle-makers wound threads of molten glass around
a shaped core of sand. After the glass hardened,
the sand was removed.By 200 BC, glass bottles were
being efficiently manufactured in China, Egypt, and Asia. One technique people used was pouring molten glass into moulds. Another technique developed in Asia was glassblowing, which involves the insertion of a tube into a gob, or lump, of molten glass. Air blown into the tube expands and hollows the inside of the pliable gob. The mould and glass-blowing techniques spread to Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. Glassblowing of bottles is practised mainly as an art form now. Antique bottles are highly collectable today.
Glass bottles afford highly effective protection of their contents and are attractive because of their transparency and high gloss and the variety of shapes attainable. Plastic bottles, made from raw materials derived from petroleum and manufactured much like glass types, offer the advantage of break-age resistance and lightness, and their contents often can be dispensed by squeezing. Their disposal contributes to pollution, because few plastic contain-ers disintegrate upon exposure to the elements. Beginning in the mid-1990s, plastic recycling, especially for the com-monly used high-density polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate bottles, was instituted to reduce the solid-waste problem.
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K arate was first practised in the 18th century on the islands of Ryukyu in south-ern Japan. It spread to mainland Japan in the beginning of the 1900s, but it has only been a recognised sport since the 1850s. It is generally seen as a
contiunation of a traditional Japanese martial arts called Budo, which is still seen in some parts of the world as a way of life based on the practice of combat techniques and with the aim of physical and spiritual perfection. The term ‘Karate’ in Japanese means ‘empty-handed’. Two opponents complete in combat with bare hands, each trying to attack the other from a safe distance. Therefore, it is very important that each opponent first hits out with fists and feet, aiming for certain parts of the other person’s body. Then when one opponent comes nearer, the other competitor also uses holds and throws. The technical objective in Karate is to beat the opponent in combat with one blow. Training is done by the Karate Master – the Karateka, who teaches breathing exercises to improve concentration and shows how to strengthen those parts of the body most likely to be hit by the opponent. Master Funakoshi Gichin is regarded as the Father of Modern Karate. He defines it as a practice which enhances spiritual health.
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Curriculum a) Scheme or methodb) Courses of studyc) End pointd) Resource
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The Elephant’s GirlBy Celesta Rimington
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My Video Game Ate My HomeworkBy Dustin Hansen
“It’s 6.50 a.m. already! You don’t want to be late for your classes, do you?”
Rohan’s mother came to wake him up for what it
seemed like the hundredth time. It was so unfair! The education minister had himself declared summer vacations for educational institutions, but the classes and homework seemed to go on and on. He felt exhaust-ed but he got up.
The school classes were over in four hours. But alas! Rohan still had two tuitions to attend to and God knows what amount of homework was waiting for him. The pressure of studies would incessantly hound him, but during the lockdown it seemed to have increased (if that’s possible!). But, he still had a two-hour break. He tried to cheer himself up with the thought. “Maybe I can continue reading the book I left last night. Or I can draw some anime characters…” He thought, and went to the drawing room to see the news headlines.
“The same news again and again. Isn’t there anything other than COVID-19?” Rohan’s father wondered aloud.
“Hey, Rohan. I was waiting for you. I have enrolled you into an online coach-ing class for NEET. I know you are only in Class-IX. But you will have to start preparing early if you want to get good results and it is the best time as your
school is closed.” His father said in a cheerful voice.
“Are you okay? You look sick.” He asked, seeing Rohan’s expression.
“No. I mean… I am fine. When will the classes start?”
“From tomorrow onwards.”“Okay. Now if you’ll excuse me…”He left the drawing room, not even
giving a glance at his father’s questioning eyes. He shut the door to his bedroom
with a bang. “I don’t know when the schools will open, I don’t know when I will spend time with my friends again. There are tonnes of online classes and homework.” He thought, with tears rolling down his cheeks. He knew the situation. But still it was hard to stay positive. A notification popped up on his mobile screen. He opened it. It was the online exam routine from his school. “That’s all I needed!” Rohan thought.
His throat tightened. After the lockdown, all he was facing was sadness. The marks of his online tests were deteriorating, his friends had stopped playing video games with him as he was no longer a ‘pro’. Before lockdown, he used to be a winner in drawing competitions, but now, he was losing one after another.
Another notification brought him back to his senses. The message left him shocked. A famous actor had died. The cry he was holding back was no longer in his control.
He opened the curtains of his window to have a look at the world. The same, famil-iar neighbourhood. His gaze shifted to two small figures under his window. A puppy and a kitten playing happily together. They were very small. “Maybe a month old.” Ro-han thought. There was something about the sight that seemed to bring light into his grim life. He had read in an article that be-cause of the lockdown, street animals were facing a lot of trouble as there were no food stalls to feed them. But, both the animals seemed to tell him that the lockdown could make them hungry, but not unhappy! A little smile played on his lips. He ran to the kitchen to get a packet of biscuits for those little angels. At that moment, he felt that taking care of those animals was more important.
Going forward and making life better every single day is the only way out.
An elephant never forgets... but Lex-ington Willow can’t remember her past. When
she was a toddler, a tor-nado swept her away from everyone and everything she knew and landed her near an enclosure in a Nebraska zoo, where an elephant named Nyah protected her from the storm. At the age of 12, Lex is finally old enough to help with the elephants. But during their first training ses-sion, Nyah sends her a tele-pathic image of the woods outside the zoo. Despite the wind’s protests, Lex decides to investigate Nyah’s mes-sage to find her family.
Rudrakshee Dutta Choudhury, Class-VIII,
Assam Jatiya Bidyalay, Noonmati, Guwahati.
IDIOM OF THE WEEK
The elephant inthe room
“T he elephant in the room” is used to describe an important and obvious topic, which everyone present is aware of, but which isn’t discussed, as such discussion is considered to be
uncomfortable.The expression is of U.S. origin, although the
precise source isn’t known. The meaning, if not the exact wording, dates from at least the 1950s and is possibly some years older than that. The first refer-
ence to the phrase that I have found is in The Charleston Gazette, July, 1952: “Chicago, that’s an old Indian word meaning get that elephant out of your room.”
It isn’t quite clear what the author in-tended, but we can be
sure he was being ironic. ‘Chicago’ is a word coined by the people who now prefer to call themselves Na-tive Americans. Their original meaning for the word isn’t known, but we can be sure it wasn’t anything to do with elephants.
The first known citation that uses the phrase with the clear intention of conveying our current understanding of the phrase is the title of Typpo and Hastings’ book An Elephant in the Living Room: A Leader’s Guide for Helping Children of Alcoholics, 1984.
A brave queen
Dear Bhaity, Bhonti,It gives me pleasure to share this nugget of
history with you. On June 18, 1858, the brave Rani Lakshmibai died while fighting the British in India’s First War of Independence. Her bravery, knowledge of war strategy and ability to mobilise forces made her the stuff of legend. Even today, women of guts and gumption are called ‘Jhansi Ki Rani’.
Children, we must be committed to fight for what we believe in. There are things greater than ourselves and it is our duty to put our idealism to work. We salute this martyr queen and let us be inspired by her.
With love , as always,
My Video Game Ate My Home-work is
a funny, fast-paced adventure that shows the importance of cooperation and teamwork and the importance of using your own unique abilities to solve problems. Follow Dewey Jenkins, a 13-year-old, on an amazing adventure that leads him and his friends to a virtual world, where they will have to overcome all sorts of digital creatures and solve a number of puzzles in order to get home.
Eric Carle, best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a picture book that got translated into at least 66 lan-
guages, is an American writer and illustrator. Born in 1929, Eric Carle has illustrated more than 70 books. His love for Nature is evident in most of his work.
Some of his works are:
The Mixed-up Chameleon.
The Very Lonely Firefly.
Mister Seahorse.
Tannistha Sarmah Bordoloi, Class-IX,
Gurukul Grammar Sr. Sec. School, Guwahati.
Riana Gogoi, Class-VI,
Little Flower H.S. School, DibrugarhArindita Boruah, Class-IV,
St. Francis de Sales School, Dhemaji
Aaileen, Class-V,
Sanskriti the Gurukul, Guwahati
Vedansh Bhatra, Class-V,
Don Bosco School, Panbazar, Guwahati
Nibir Niloy Buragohain,
Kidzee, Baroholia, Tezpur
Ayanav Mazumdar, Class-I,
Don Bosco High School, Tezpur
Unmilan Parashar, Class-VI,
Assam Jatiya Bidyalay, Guwahati
Niribili Manoj Das, Class-VI,
Shrimanta Shankar Academy, Dispur, Guwahati
Ritambhara Nandi, Class-V,
Mangaldai Maharshree Vidyalaya, Mangaldai
Jishnu Shreya Choudhury, Class- VIII,
Shrimanta Shankar Academy, Dispur, Guwahati.
Poem of the WeekSketch of the week
The house sparrowsAs the weekends arrive,I get ecstatic, and my hands grain-laden,As the house sparrows inviteMe to our dainty garden.
They make sure thatNot a single Sunday passesWithout me.
They quickly trot overWhen I scatter the grains,And devour them with ardour,An ecstasy I can’t explain.
They make sure thatNot a single Sunday passesWithout me.
I was told they lived in human shelter,Hence, the name house sparrow.The Passer domesticus is an old native here, And humans as friends, they chose.
Now, generations have passed,So has our tech.From thatch to concrete,From innovations to wreck.
My friends, not only have most of you leftOur abode, but have also left us bereft.So useful are these friends,From their sweet chirps to killing pests.
As the weekends arrive,I get ecstatic, and my hands grain-laden,As my friends of Nature inviteMe to our dainty garden.
We are making sure every Sunday is memorable, And a Sunday with the house sparrows is amazing!
A sunny dayIt is a sunny day,Kindly keep calm.It is a stunningly white sky today,Kindly make way, For the sun will be shining bright today.Take out your sunglasses,Put them on,Or hide among the tall grasses,Or wait till the sun is gone.I guess he does not realiseThat he is the mighty old sun,That what he does is victimiseAnd make all people run.
Sanskriti Barman,
Maharishi Vidya Mandir-IV, Barsajai, Guwahati.
My petsI have a pet named Bob,Doing mischief is his job.I have a pet named Goofy,He is very soft and fluffy.Both my pets are loyal,In my family, they are royal.They were living in cages,But now they live in my house.
Bob is easy-going.Goofy is hard-working.Bob takes two minutes to finish his dinner,He is a winner.Goofy takes ten minutes to finish his dinner,He is a food-saver.Both my pets are gentle and kind,We all want their love forever.
Mayur K. Talukdar, Class-V,
Don Bosco School, Panbazar, Guwahati.
Plants Plants are of different kinds,We grow some in our gardens.Some plants can be eaten, while some cannot,When we keep them in a compost pit,They slowly rot. Plants give us fruits,Plants give us berries and nuts,Plants give us vegetables,We chop them all on our tables. Plants give us oxygen,While we give them carbon-dioxide, not nitrogen. Plants give us all the useful things,Which are required for all human beings.
Rajanya Shekhar Pal, Class-IV,
Faculty H.S. School, North Guwahati.
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I want to share some sweet memories of my grand-ma, whom I called Aita. These are from the stories that my mother and my grandfather shared with me.
When I was just a month old, I went to my aita’s home in Jamugurihat for the first time. When it was time for us to return to Itanagar, Aita said to me, “O’ my sweetheart, you will leave me and go away,” and I started sobbing loudly. I don’t know how I could un-derstand her at the age of just one month. But, when I cried, Aita also cried and even my parents cried.
During festivals, we always visited Aita. Sometimes my cousins Loyona (Manu ba) and Neelarnav (Bumon dada) would also visit Jamugurihat. We played a lot and Aita loved to see us playing. She had a pet dog named Tom. One day, Tom was sick and Aita was very sad. Meanwhile, around the same time, in Itanagar, I started crying, saying I wanted to visit Aita. So, we came down to her place and then Tom died. We buried him. Aita was glad that we were there with her. Every time my
aita has been sick or sad, I would cry in Itanagar and force my parents to visit Aita. Once when Aita cut her finger very badly, I forced my parents to visit her and on seeing us, Aita was surprised. I don’t know how, but it really did happen. My dad says that was telepa-thy.
Aita was an interesting lady. She never liked it if any-one called her old. Her hobbies were singing, travelling, reading books, etc. She loved eating pizza, ice-cream, pulao, biryani, just like me. Whenever Aita visited us in Itanagar, we used to go to parks, where she played on the swing. We used to visit restaurants and have lots of fun.
But Aita left us five years ago. I could be with her only for four years. After Aita’s death, we rarely visited Jamugurihat. Aita’s home feels empty without her. I miss you a lot, Aita, and I love you.
