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Kiren Rijiju acknowledge the Indian Army, ITBP, NDRF for assisting in Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan

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Kiren Rijiju acknowledge the Indian Army, ITBP, NDRF for assisting in Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan

Arunachal Pradesh, Dec 30: Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju thanked the Indian Army, ITBP, and NDRF for their assistance in organizing the Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan.

Union Minister Rijiju took a tweet to expresses his gratitude to the armed forces of the country and said the Indian Army and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) are always proactive in extending their support to the important events and programs of the government.

“I thank Indian Army, ITBP, and NDRF for the assistance in organizing Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan. Indian Army and Central Armed Police Forces are always proactive in supporting any important events and programs,” Rijiju tweeted.

 

Union Minister Rijiju on December 23, 2020, flagged off the 917 km long Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan, a river rafting expedition and public outreach program in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

“The biggest river in our country, the mighty The Brahmaputra is known as Siang in Arunachal Pradesh. It enters our motherland India near Gelling. Joined ‘Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan’ at Tuting organized by the Ministry of Jal Shakti with the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & NDRF,” Rijiju tweeted after the launch of the event.

The month-long expedition is being organized by the Brahmaputra Board under the Union Jal Shakti Ministry and supported by the Arunachal Pradesh and Assam governments and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).

The Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan was undertaken as part of the public outreach, encouraging the youths and students and also to popularize the concept of ‘living with the river’.

“A collective data collection and sampling exercise would also be done on river water quality, sediments, erosion, and fish habitat along the entire 917 km route, in collaboration with various reputed institutes,” an official of the Guwahati based Brahmaputra Board said.

The rafting expedition would culminate in Mankachar the district near the India-Bangladesh border on January 21.

The Brahmaputra, one of the longest rivers in the world, flows from Tibet into Arunachal Pradesh, down to Assam, and eventually Bangladesh.

Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine approved by UK regulator

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Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine approved by UK regulator

United Kingdom, Dec 30: Britain has become the first nation to approve the Oxford University-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.

The coronavirus vaccine designed by scientists at the University of Oxford and produced by AstraZeneca was approved for human use by the UK’s independent regulator.

The United Kingdom government said that it has accepted a recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) it means the vaccine is both safe and effective.

The company aims to supply millions of doses in the first quarter as part of its deal with the UK government to supply up to 100 million doses in total.

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was already lining up thousands of medics and volunteers to be ready to deliver jabs across the country.

The authorization recommends two doses administered with an interval of between 4 and 12 weeks. This regimen was shown in clinical trials to be safe and effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19, with no severe cases & no hospitalizations more than 14 days after the second dose.

The vaccine has a tie-up with the Serum Institute of India as well and also being evaluated by the MHRA after the final cut of data was submitted by the government last Monday.

It comes as a senior UK scientist pinpointed the Oxford vaccine as a real gamechanger, which could see the country achieve herd immunity as a result of vaccination against the deadly virus by the summer months of 2021.

“The people that have been vaccinated will be protected within a matter of weeks and that’s very important,” Professor Calum Semple, a respiratory disease expert and member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), told to media.

Britain has ordered 100 million doses of the jab, with 40 million expected to be available by the end of March 2021.

AstraZeneca chief Pascal Soriot has stressed that researchers have found the “winning formula” using two doses of the vaccine, ahead of the final results being published.

He has raised hopes that the jabs are more effective and should be effective against a new variant of the coronavirus that is now causing havoc in most parts of the UK.

20-year-old molested inside a car in Kolkata

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20-year-old molested inside a car in Kolkata

Kolkata, Dec 30: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly molested inside a car by her male friends while returning home from a birthday party in front of a female friend.

The incident happened between Jadavpur and Bhawanipur area of Kolkata which is the prime area of the city where police personnel have been deployed especially during the festive season.

A resident of Maheshtala went to attend a birthday party of a female friend in the Jadavpur area. After the party, four friends went on a drive including the two male who have been accused. Once they left the venue, the victim alleges that her male friends who are identified as Rajesh Roy and Sourav Roy, started touching her in an improper manner in front of the female friend.

The 20-year-old victim was seeking help from outside the car and shouting as loud as she can but no one was there on road to listen and help her out. After at least 5.3 km she somehow managed to get down from the car and lodge a police complaint.

The case has been lodged under IPC 30/12/2020 U/S 354/114 against 3 of the accused including the female friend.

On the night of February 6 in 2012 five men had gang-raped the victim at gunpoint in a moving car and threw her out on Park Street in south Kolkata. The audacious crime at one of Kolkata’s most iconic locations had shocked the city.

The audacious crime at one of Kolkata’s most iconic locations had shocked the city. Soon the case turned high profile with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing the victim of faking the incident.

In fact, IPS officer Damayanti Sen, the then joint commissioner of Kolkata police who had been proactively investigating the case was promptly transferred after she claimed that the crime was genuine, thereby refuting the chief minister’s initial claim.

Kolkata has reported the first case of mutant Coronavirus strain

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Kolkata has reported the first case of mutant Coronavirus strain

Kolkata, Dec 30: Kolkata has reported the first case of mutant Coronavirus strain as one of the returnees from the UK tested positive on Wednesday. He had been isolated since his return. He is presently quarantined at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital.

His samples were sent for testing at an NIV lab in Nadia. After genome sequencing, he has tested positive for the new strain. He is one of the two passengers who returned to Kolkata via an Air India flight from the UK last week.

The total number of people testing positive for the new UK variant genome of Sars-CoV-2 virus has reached 20, the Union ministry of health and family welfare announced on Wednesday, based on the results of genome sequencing of positive samples released by the Indian Sars-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (Insacog) labs.

The samples have so far been sequenced in seven of the 10 designated labs across the country—seven samples tested positive in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two in CCMB, Hyderabad and one in NIV, Pune, eight in NCDC, Delhi, one in IGIB, Delhi and one in NIBG, Kalyani (West Bengal).

The health ministry had announced Tuesday that six UK returnees had tested positive for the variant.

All the infected people are now in isolation, the health ministry said in a statement, adding that their fellow travelers and close contacts are being traced and quarantined. Genome sequencing on other samples is currently going on.

From November 25 to midnight of December 23, 2020, about 33,000 passengers disembarked at various Indian airports from the UK.

All these passengers are being tracked and subjected by states to RT-PCR tests. The designated 10 Insacog labs are NIBMG Kolkata, ILS Bhubaneswar, NIV Pune, CCS Pune, CCMB Hyderabad, CDFD Hyderabad, InSTEM Bengaluru, NIMHANS Bengaluru, IGIB Delhi, NCDC Delhi.

The presence of the new Coronavirus strain has already been reported by Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Lebanon, and Singapore, so far.

First detected in London and Kent in mid-September, the variant was identified by UK authorities as a matter of concern on December 14. They later disclosed evidence that it appeared to be more transmissible, and was behind a spike in cases in the country’s capital as well as its south-east.

The variant has 23 changes in its genome, eight of which appear to influence the spike protein that the pathogen uses to latch on to host cells. Some of the other changes could make it more adept at infecting susceptible cells and possibly even evade some immune response, although detailed studies are underway.

In a preliminary assessment released late on Monday, UK scientists estimated that the new variant did not lead to more deaths or hospitalizations but caused noticeably more secondary infections than the older variant.

Tripura: Tepania Eco-park becomes adventure spot for tourists

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Tripura: Tepania Eco-park becomes adventure spot for tourists

Tripura, Dec 30: Tepania Eco-park has become an adventure destination for tourists, it is located 47 kilometers away from the capital Agartala.

In the midst of the jungle of Tepania Eco-park, the log huts are attracting tourists, who want to stay near ‘mother nature’. These log huts are constructed by Tripura Tourism Development Corporation (TTDCL).

The huts blend with natural ambiance but at the same time, the huts are fully equipped with all the modern facilities.

After months of a shutdown during Covid-19 lockdown, these log huts are again opened for the tourists. The tourists coming to stay in these huts can order food in the rooms or they can also dine in restaurants.

“This place is filled with natural beauty, staying in the log huts, closed to nature after the coronavirus lockdown is quite amazing and I believe this place has huge potential for tourists to come and explore,” said a tourist.

“To have some outing after the coronavirus lockdown, it is a very safe place away from city life, I am very much happy to come here,” said another tourist.

Only a few days after the huts were inaugurated early this year they had to be shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic but now after more than six months the doors of the log huts are again open and tourists are flocking to experience stay in the huts so peaceful and serene in Tepania Eco-park. Tourists generally arrive here in the afternoon to enjoy the evening here with their family and friends.

The park reopened on October 1 after coronavirus lockdown and receiving good response since then. “Tourists visiting here are from the state,” said park manager, Arup Paul.

Besides staying at the log huts the early morning walk in the mist in the wooden path through the green canopy and through the bamboo groves is no less a dreamlike experience, said a tourist.

Tripura Tourism Minister, Pranajit Singha Roy said, “Government has developed several places for adventure tourism. Tripura will soon become a tourist destination; it will increase the revenue of the state and provide jobs to unemployed youngsters. Many tourism development projects are underway.”

Development of tourism infrastructure and service will strengthen the rural economy and provide employment, boosting Tripura’s economic growth and development, the Minister added.

Seeing the response of tourists to these log huts, the TTDCL is setting up similar log huts at few other tourist spots including the Sepahijala Reserve Forest and Baramura Eco-Park.

A total of 38 log huts shall be set up across the state and the state government with a loan of Rs 500 crores from the Asian Development Bank is trying to transform Tripura into a tourist hub in the region by developing tourism infrastructure in the state beside introducing various new forms of tourism including – religious tourism, health tourism, tea tourism, and adventure tourism.

Arunachal Pradesh: Forest officials seize wildlife carcasses

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Arunachal Pradesh: Forest officials seize wildlife carcasses

Arunachal Pradesh, Dec 30: Officials of the Daporijo Forest division in the Upper Sunasiri district of Arunachal Pradesh seized a number of wildlife carcasses from the Daporijo market.

The Divisional Forest Officer (T) of Daporiji, Boken Pao, informed that their patrolling team conducted an operation against hunting and selling of wildlife meat in Daporijo town market.

During the operation, the forest team was able to seize the wild carcasses including a large Indian Cibet, a hog deer, two flying squirrels, and two jungle fowls from the daily market, the DFO (T) said.

The team, however, could not nab the wildlife trader, who fled from the spot. The forest officials later burnt the carcasses at the marketplace in the presence of the people.

The DFO was accompanied by Taliha Range RFO Tapa Muso, Daporijo RFO Tajit Ebiya, and other forest personnel during the operation.

“We have already met Upper Subansiri DC Kento Danggen and discussed the menace of unabated hunting and selling of wildlife meat by the local people” said the DFO.

Sources said a section of high-profile people of the district is indirectly encouraging wildlife poachers to carry out illegal practices for the consumption of meat.

Meanwhile, the forest officials of the Daporijo Forest division has taken steps to stop hunting and poaching of wildlife in the area.

They also moved the DC to issue a circular in this regard and to help the department in organizing mass mobilization on wildlife conservation.

Daporijo is the district headquarters of the Upper Subansiri district of central Arunachal Pradesh, located about 200 km north of Assam’s Lakhimpur district.

Mizo Home Minister launch ‘souvenir magazine’ on 48th anniversary of Fire department

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Mizo Home Minister launch ‘souvenir magazine’ on 48th anniversary of Fire department

Mizoram, Dec 29: Mizoram Home Minister Lalchamliana launched the ‘souvenir magazine’ on the occasion of the 48th-anniversary celebration of the Fire & Emergency Services at the recreation hall of the Headquarters Office.

Addressing the people during the program Lalchamliana said “it was joyous to witness the 48th anniversary of the Emergency Services department and relayed his best wishes to all the staff and employees of the department for the festive season.”

The minister praised the hard work and dedication of the Fire & Emergency services workers and appreciated those who had received Service Medals for their hard work and sacrifice also appreciate for releasing the souvenir magazine.

He said “once the project proposals have been approved, they plan to construct new buildings and procure additional vehicles for the fire& emergency services department. We have not been able to set up a fire station in the newly opened districts due to financial constraints.”

Lalchamliana further advised the staff to be vigilant and keep away from the use of substances, he also advised the public to take precaution against unnecessary and accidental fires.

The journey of the Fire & Emergency Services started in Mizoram on September 1, 1972, by a few people from Assam, and was known as the Fire Service Organisation. It was under the care of the Superintendent of Police.

In 2008, a Director post was appointed and it became a separate unit from the police department. The Mizoram Fire Service Act was passed in 2013 and rules were framed which was approved by the Mizoram government in August 2019. Currently, there are 14 fire stations in Mizoram.

Assam: Ajanta Neog, Rajdeep Goala and Bolendra Mosahary join BJP

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Assam: Ajanta Neog, Rajdeep Goala and Bolendra Mosahary join BJP

Assam, Dec 29: Former Congress leaders Ajanta Neog and Rajdeep Goala joined the BJP along with them, Bolendra Mosahary of the Bodoland People’s Front on Tuesday in Assam.

State BJP president Ranjeet Dass, NEDA Convener Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma welcomed them to the along with other leaders of the party.

Speaking to the media after joining Ajanta Neog said that she is thankful to those who helped her mentally in her decision to join the party.

She further said that she went to meet the Chief Minister for some project work in her constituency, but the Congress made an issue of it. Making an issue out of the meeting. She also accused the Congress of infighting.

When asked if she is contesting the upcoming Assembly elections as a BJP candidate from her home turf Golaghat, she said that she has joined the party without any pre-condition.

Another prominent face of the Bodoland People’s Front, Bolendra Mosahary also joined the BJP on Tuesday. He termed his joining as homecoming and said that he is committed to the growth of the party.

It may be mentioned that Ajanta Neog is a prominent and tall leader of the Congress party. A three-time minister, Neog has been a legislator for the last four consecutive terms.

Speaking about the joining, NEDA Convener Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “Ajanta Neog is a tall leader of the Congress, her joining the BJP is definitely a major setback for the Congress.”

Ajanta Neog is likely to hold a mega rally of the BJP soon in Golaghat, where many from the Congress party will join the BJP.

Assam: School reopening from Jan 1; Govt issues SOPs

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Assam: School reopening from Jan 1; Govt issues SOPs

Assam, Dec 29: Assam Government has issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for school reopening from January 1. Education Minister Biswa Sarma said that the classes will be held regularly from the first day of January.

The SOPs issued by the government are:

  1. The classes from I to V will be held on alternate days
  2. The classes of IV and V will be held on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
  3. Classes of I, II, and III will be held on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
  4. The classes will start at 9 AM
  5. The classes will end at 1:45 PM
  6. Students will be offered midday meals from 12:15 PM to 12:45 PM
  7. The heads of the schools have been instructed to maintain the COVID-19 protocols
  8. The students will have to come with the permission of the parents
  9. The teachers can conduct the online classes also along with regular classes if necessary
  10. No meetings, cultural programs could be organized inside the school premises

Amartya Sen has been married 3 times in 3 different religion: Dilip Ghosh

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Amartya Sen has been married 3 times in 3 different religion: Dilip Ghosh

West Bengal, Dec 29: BJP Bengal President and MP Dilip Ghosh lashes out at Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen over his marriage.

“I don’t want to comment anything on his (Amartya Sen) personal life. He has been married 3 times in 3 different religions. He has no moral right to comment on such things. He has eloped from this country, he does not care about the people of this country. When the public was in trouble he was not with them, be it during Amphan or this pandemic. We not here to listen to him, whoever has, drowned,” said Dilip Ghosh.

This came after a day when Amartya Sen has written a letter referring to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and thanked her for supporting people like him who are under attack.

“I do not know who is standing by whom. Due to political compulsion, they are trying to survive with each other. This would not happen anymore. Those who fooled the citizens of West Bengal provided them fictitious information and did not contribute a single penny are not getting revealed. They are in deep worry now and thus are coming up with other issues just to save themselves,” Ghosh added.

In a short email, Sen wrote, “I am very happy indeed to get your supportive letter. I am not only most touched, but also very reassured that despite the busy life you have to lead, you can find time for reassuring people under attack. Your strong voice, along with your full understanding of what is going on, is, for me, a tremendous source of strength.”

On Friday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to Sen and slammed the BJP for “leveling baseless allegations” against him. “We all salute Amartya Sen. Just because he isn’t inclined towards BJP’s ideology, they are leveling such allegations against him,” she had said.

“I say that you have given accounts on what have you given in response to all that the people of Bengal has given to you? We have the right to ask for that account which they are not being able to provide,” Ghosh further added.

Earlier this week, Visva-Bharati University Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty in a letter to the state government had named Sen among those who have “illegally occupied plots on the campus” – a charge denied by the Nobel laureate who has said that the land in question was registered in records on a long-term lease.

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