Guwahati Mar 28 PTI The Assam government on Monday informed the state Assembly that it does not have the complete data regarding doubtful D voters in the state D-voters are those who could not provide evidence in favour of their Indian nationality The complete data is not available at the moment as the matter is under the Election Commission Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in the House in response to a question He said 144099 people have been declared as foreigners by Foreigners Tribunals till January 31 though the state government does not have the names and detailed addresses or other such information of these people Sarma who was replying in his capacity as the home minister said 185 people have been so far kept in six Transit Camps that house declared foreigners and foreigners undergoing imprisonment Altogether 1047 people have come out of Transit Camps on bail but the Home department does not have their details he added Sarma also said a total of 499 declared foreigners have been deported from the state since 2010Responding to another question Sarma said 19354 suspected foreigners have been served notice by the current government which assumed power in May last year till February 28 2022 He also said 31 people have so far died in Transit Camps due to illness or other reasons PTI SSG NN NN

Guwahati Feb 21 PTI The Assam Police has been able to freeze the illegally acquired properties of a suspected drug kingpin probably for the first time in the country a top official said on Monday The suspect was arrested last month from Karbi Anglong district In a first probably in the country we moved competent authority to freeze the illegally acquired properties by druglord Baba Hazarika of Karbi Anglong Director General of Police Bhaskarjyoti Mahanta tweeted He added that it was done after a financial investigation was carried out by the Karbi Anglong Police The precedence is set a new frontier is opened in our fight against the menace of drugs We SHALL overcome Mahanta said The Assam Police has been carrying out intensified operations against illegal drugs since the second BJP-led government headed by Himanta Biswa Sarma assumed charge in May last year PTI SSG NN NN

Guwahati Feb 18 PTI In a boost to regional connectivity Rupsi Airport in Assams Kokrajhar district from Friday extended regular flight services to Kolkata and Guwahati to six days a weekAccording to a statement issued by the authorities of the airport Fly Big airlines will connect Rupsi directly with Kolkata and GuwahatiWe are happy to announce that Rupsi Airport will now be operating flights everyday except Monday It was among the major demands of the passengers travelling through this airport said Hemang Arora Airport In-charge Rupsi AirportEarlier the services were available four days per weekWe continue to provide better amenities to our passengers and stakeholders at Rupsi which has provided much needed flight services under Central governments flagship programme UDAN to people of this area Arora addedRupsi Airport was opened for the public on May 8 last yearTill January 2022 over 31000 passengers have travelled to and from Rupsi Airport the statement added PTI SSG NN NN

Guwahati Dec 21 PTI Apparently frustrated by repeated verbal duels between ruling and opposition benches that disrupt proceedings Assam assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary on Tuesday gave a free-for-all ten minutes to the legislators to talk and debate as they wished The Speaker also started speaking in his mother tongue Bodo later when his pleas to the MLAs to maintain decorum in Assamese fell on deaf ears Bodo an associate official language of the state was included among the languages for transaction of business in the assembly after Daimary a leader of the Bodo community had taken over as the Speaker Uproarious scenes broke out in the House soon after the beginning of the days proceedings when opposition and ruling MLAs hurled allegations and counter-allegations during a reply to a question of Panchayat and Rural Development department Daimary stood up and requested the legislators to maintain decorum and let the proceedings continue When his repeated pleas went unheard the Speaker said he would allow the next 10 minutes for the members to continue with their kajia fight and speak as they wished and he will not interfere As the din refused to die down Daimary once again reminded the MLAs at the end of the fifth minute that if the ruckus grew louder he will not allow any of the proceedings during that period to be put on record The normal proceedings resumed at the end of the 10 minutes and continued smoothly for nearly 30 minutes before the ruckus started once again With verbal duels resuming between the two sides the Speaker started speaking in Bodo as his requests in Assamese to pacify the MLAs met with no success Unable to understand what Daimary was saying a number of MLAs put on their headphones to listen to the Assamese translation The assembly has a provision for that As the noise subsided Daimary again requested the MLAs to cooperate with him in ensuring that the House runs smoothly and the proceedings resumed PTI SSG NN NN

Guwahati Dec 20 PTI The Assam government on Monday introduced an amendment bill in the state assembly for issuing transit passes for liquor from neighbouring states passing through Assam The Assam Excise Amendment Bill 2021 placed by Excise Minister Parimal Suklabaidya seeks to replace the Assam Excise Amendment Ordinance 2021The bill said in view of long porous borders with neighbouring states the Assam excise department has to constantly struggle to check transportation and smuggling of liquor To monitor the movement of liquor transiting through Assam it was essential to introduce a system of transit pass and due to urgency of the matter an ordinance was promulgated on September 15 it said The Assam Cooperative Societies Amendment Bill 2021 was also introduced in the House by the departments minister Atul Bora It proposes to delete the provision in the principal act that disallowed registration of any society under the act in an area where there already exists another cooperative society with similar objectives except with special permission Through the amendment it is sought to bring competitiveness and professionalism among the cooperatives and end monopoly the bill said PTI SSG NN NN

Guwahati Oct 17 PTI The positivity rate of new Covid-19 cases in Assam breached the one per cent mark for the second time within a period of four days on Sunday while six fresh fatalities were reported an official bulletin said Altogether 205 new coronavirus cases were registered in the state during the day from 19350 tests conducted taking the total caseload to 606468 the bulletin issued by the National Health Mission Assam said The daily positivity rate was at 106 per cent on Sunday after it had touched 153 per cent on Thursday The rate was 093 per cent on Friday and 082 per cent on SaturdaySix deaths were reported during the day one less than the previous days figure Two fatalities each were registered from Barpeta and Dibrugarh districts while Kamrup Metropolitan and Kamrup Rural districts recorded one death each the NHM bulletin said The total Covid-19 death toll now stands at 5950 while the number of coronavirus patients dying due to other causes remained at 1347 Among the new cases detected on Sunday 68 were from Kamrup Metropolitan and 24 from Jorhat districts As many as 245 patients were discharged across the state during the day taking the number of recovered people to 597082 with a recovery rate of 9845 per cent The number of active cases in the state currently is 2089Meanwhile 197 crore vaccine doses were administered in the state so far The bulletin said 6584511 people have received both doses PTI SSG NN NN

Guwahati Aug 23 PTI More than 50 people were taken ill and treated for suspected food poisoning after having prasad comprising gram and fruits at a religious function in Assams Charaideo district a police official said on Monday A villager organised the event at his house and distributed prasad among the neighbouring households on Sunday afternoon Soon after consuming the prasad people complained of stomachache and vomiting Over 50 villagers were admitted to the Geleki Block Primary Health Centre since Sunday night with similar symptoms of food poisoning and their condition is stable now the official said A team of Food and Civil Supplies Department visited the village under Geleki police station on Monday morning and seized the remaining stock of gram from the shop from which the villager had procured it An investigation has been started to determine how the food poisoning had been caused the official added PTI SSG NN NN