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  • Assam border clash: Meghalaya govt extends mobile internet ban in 7 districts by another 48 hrs

    Assam border clash: Meghalaya govt extends mobile internet ban in 7 districts by another 48 hrs

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    Meghalaya government on Thursday has extended the suspension of mobile internet and data services in seven districts by another 48 hours.

    Tension gripped Meghalaya’s capital Shillong after miscreants on Thursday evening torched a traffic booth and attacked three police vehicles, including a city bus. The incident took place during a candlelight vigil organised by some groups to protest against the violence on the Assam-Meghalaya border on November 22. Six persons, including five from Meghalaya and a personnel of Assam Forest Guard, were killed in the firing incident at Mukroh area of West Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya.

    ANI reported the protesters hurled stones and petrol bombs at police forces deployed to calm tensions. Security personnel were forced to lob tear gas shells to disperse the protesters and enforce order.

    Three police vehicles including a city bus were damaged in an attack by miscreants. They torched a traffic booth in the city and hurled petrol bombs at the police force, said SP, East Khasi Hills, Shillong.

    On Wednesday, both Assam and Meghalaya governments demanded a probe by a central agency into the incident. Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said a central agency should investigate the firing incident.

    “We’ve requested GoI to constitute a central agency inquiry into this incident. Union Home Minister has assured inquiry to be constituted under a central agency,” said Sangma on Meghalaya-Assam border clash.

    “In our meeting with Union Home Minister, we emphasised that the supply of essential commodities into Meghalaya should not be disrupted and full support should be there from the neighbouring states. Law and order has been maintained in the state. We are in touch with different stakeholders to ensure the safety of our people and that peace prevails. I think for the next 2-3 days we need to watch the situation but nothing is closed as such. A precautionary advisory has been given to the people due to prevailing tension. Union Home Minister has assured Central agency inquiry,” said Sangma on Thursday. 

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  • Northeast important to government’s plans of making air connectivity nation’s lifeline: Scindia

    Northeast important to government’s plans of making air connectivity nation’s lifeline: Scindia

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    Union minister of civil aviation, Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that the northeast was an important part of the central government’s strategy of making air connectivity the country’s lifeline even as he launched several new flights within the region.

    Informing that while in 2013-14 India had only 70 airports, the minister said the country currently boasted 141 airports, water aerodromes and heliports. Over the next four years, this would be increased to over 200 airports.

    “The northeast is an important component of this expansion. In 2013, where we had only nine airports in the northeast,” he said, adding, “Today, under the prime minister’s directive, we have additional airports in Lilabari, Tezpur and Rupsi in Assam, Tezu, Pasighat and, very soon, the new airport in Hollongi, in Arunachal Pradesh, and Pakyong, in Sikkim. So, we have built close to about seven new airports in the last eight years.”

    Scindia was speaking at the virtual launch of six new departures on the Imphal-Aizwal, Aizwal-Imphal, Lilabari-Ziro, Ziro-Lilabari, Shillong-Lilabari and Lilabari-Shillong routes in the presence of the union minister of law and justice, Kiren Rijiju, minister of state of civil aviation, Gen. (Retd) Vijay Kumar Singh and chief ministers of the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Meghalaya, and the state tourism minister of Mizoram.

    The civil aviation minister noted that air connectivity was not merely about launching domestic and international flights, nor was it about launching flights between Tier-I cities, but it rather implied reaching every corner of India.

    Fund for developing air connectivity in northeast

    The minister said that a Rs 500 crore corpus had been set aside for enhancing both inter and intra-northeast connectivity. Of the 1,095 routes awarded under the Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik-Regional Connectivity Scheme (UDAN-RCS), 136 or 14 per cent of routes had been awarded in the northeast.

    “Under UDAN 4.2, out of 132 routes, 24 routes have been dedicated to the northeast. So, almost about 18 per cent of the total routes have been dedicated to the northeast,” the minister said.

    Reiterating the role of air connectivity in advancing the potential of the northeast not only within the country but also overseas, the minister also announced two international routes from the region as part of India’s Act East policy.

    “We would also like to announce that we will be starting two new international routes under international UDAN-RCS… Agartala-Chittagong-Agartala and Imphal-Mandalay-Imphal. We are expanding the scope from regional connectivity to national connectivity to international connectivity for the northeast,” he remarked.

    He further mentioned how the convergence scheme involving eight ministries for the transportation of horticultural produce, Krishi UDAN, was helping reach chillies, jackfruit, lemons and grapes from the region to markets in the UK, Germany and the UAE.

    The minister also praised Vineet Sood, the CEO of India’s largest regional carrier, Alliance Air, for taking the lead over other Indian carriers in enhancing regional connectivity.

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  • Rhino that was hit in Assam’s Kaziranga is now ‘doing good’, confirms CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

    Rhino that was hit in Assam’s Kaziranga is now ‘doing good’, confirms CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

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    A rhinoceros which was hit by a truck on a highway in the Kaziranga National Park area recently is doing good now. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma shared the health update of the rhino along with a drone video taken this morning on Twitter. In the video, one can see the rhino standing in a riverine.

    The tweet read, “An urgent update: Our Rhino friend, who met with an accident in Haldibari recently, is found to be doing good. I am sharing a drone video taken this morning. Urge all to be kind to our animals. Go slow while passing through corridors, where you know some animals might cross.”

    The incident sparked outrage after the accident footage went viral on social media. CM Biswa urged all to be kind to the animals. “Go slow while passing through corridors, where you know some animals might cross.”

    CCTV footage of the unfortunate incident was shared by Assam CM who informed that the rhino survived and the truck driver has been fined. The CM added that the Assam government is working to save animals at Kaziranga by building a special 32-km elevated corridor and that the government would not allow any infringement on the safe spaces of rhinos.

    According to a forest official, the speed limit at the Haldibari corridor is 40 km per hour but the truck was speeding at 52 km per hour.
     

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