GUWAHATI: CBI has arrested a 1985-batch officer of the Indian Railways for accepting a bribe of Rs 1 crore, sources told India Today. This is the most significant bribe the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has ever apprehended a government officer with. The officer in question has been identified as
Year: 2021
Guwahati: Assam’s newly floated political party Raijor Dal on Sunday urged another regional outfit Asom Jatiyo Parishad (AJP) to take forward discussions on forming a pre-poll alliance. Elections to the 126-member Assam assembly are due in March-April. Working presidents of the outfit, helmed by jailed RTI activist Akhil Gogoi, wrote
GUWAHATI: On his first day in office, US President-elect Joe Biden plans to issue a number of executive orders, including one rescinding the controversial travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries. According to a memo circulated on Saturday by Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming White House chief of staff, the new
Guwahati: Assam’s COVID-19 tally rose to 2,16,831 on Sunday as 22 more people tested positive for the infection, while three fresh fatalities pushed the state’s coronavirus death toll to 1,073, a health bulletin said. Cachar district reported the highest number of new cases at 10, followed by Kamrup Metropolitan (six)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been invited by the United Kingdom to attend the G7 summit to be held in the country’s Cornwall region in June. The group that includes the world’s seven leading democratic economies — UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USA — and the European Union,