While India has set a net zero goal by 2070, it has not set any sector-specific targets, and more specifically, with respect to road transport electrification, it has promoted state-level action as a key driver of EV adoption.
Heavy security has been deployed in the area and the district administration seen to be using excavators and tractors for the operation.
Those arrested were identified as Golap Khandakar (29-year-old) and Sahanur Mir (21-year-old). Both of them hailed from Barpeta.
Later a division bench of the high court refused to interfere with the order of the single judge bench leading to filing of an appeal in the top court.
In 2015 and 2016, the number of rhinos killed by poachers was 17 and 18, respectively, which subsequently declined to two in 2020 and 2021 and zero in 2022.
The move comes after police cracked down on alleged modules of terrorist organisation Ansarul Bangla Team, and 51 Bangladeshis were discovered among the preachers at Madrasas.
However, political analysts maintained that though the Yatra has given the state’s main Opposition party ‘visibility’, it remains to be seen whether the walkathon will translate into electoral benefits.
According to a senior officer, one .32 pistol was seized from a person in Dilaji near Diphu on Wednesday night and he was taken into custody.
Police arrested Chetry, who has been untraceable since November 27. The M Com student allegedly jumped off a hostel building to escape further harassment.
The scheme was implemented through the Dr Banikanta Kakati Merit Award, under the Pragya Bharti scheme, to a total of 35,800 beneficiaries, of whom 6,052 are boys and 29,748 are girls.
A Dornier 228 aircraft, manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), with a single passenger on board, took off from Dibrugarh at 10.20 am and landed at the newly constructed Donyi Polo airport at Hollongi, near here, at 11.10 am.
According to a statement from the chief minister’s office, the cheques were distributed at a function in Silchar on Tuesday evening.
Transportation of fuel from Assam to the hill state has also been stopped by the apex petroleum workers’ body since Thursday following reports of attacks on vehicles from the state in Meghalaya, though other vehicles ferrying goods continued to cross the border.
The delegation will demand for an investigation led by either the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The truck was intercepted at the Meghalaya border by an Assam Forest Department team around 3 am, West Karbi Anglong’s Superintendent of Police Imdad Ali told PTI.
Chief Justice RM Chhaya made this observation while hearing a suo motu case taken up by the high court regarding the demolition of the house of an accused in an arson case in Nagaon district of Assam.
On Thursday, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma appealed to the people of Assam to light up earthen lamps at their homes on the occasion of Lachit Diwas on November 24.
The Assam Chief Minister on Friday also said that, with the increase in medical colleges in the state, the number of MBBS seats has also increased from 726 in 2014 to 1200 in 2022.
The cleric involved in the incident has been identified as Zainul Haque Laskar, according to reports.
