Daily News - 18 Feb, 2020
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Chief Minister’s Media Advisor Hrishikesh Goswami visited the Assamese Department of Visva Bharati University at Bolpur in West Bengal and interacted with the students. Media Advisor Goswami also talked to the Principal of the Institute of Languages, Culture and Literature ‘Bhasha Bhavana’ Prof. Narottam Senapati and in-charge of the Assamese Department, Assistant Professor Sangeeta Saikia on several aspects of the department. On interacting with the students of the Assamese Department, Media Advisor Goswami while reiterating the deep-rooted socio-cultural and linguistic relationship between Assam and West Bengal, said that the present State government has been taking several steps for strengthening this bond even further. He also asked the students to be ambassadors of these long and deep-rooted relations between the two neighbouring states.

Former Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria has revealed some startling details about his career life in his book- ‘Let Me Say It Now’ in which he mentions some interesting details about 26/11 Mumbai blasts to the much publicised Sheena Bora murder case. He talks about close relationship shared between Deven Bharti, former joint commissioner of police (law and order) and the Mukerjeas and that Peter Mukerjea had informed Deven that Sheena had gone missing. Maria also talks about his sudden transfer before he could contribute anything substantial to this investigation.

According to State of India’s Birds 2020, released during 13th Conference of Parties of the Convention on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals in New Delhi on Monday, 66 bird species from northeast India come under “high-conservation concern” category. Of these, 23 are in Arunachal Pradesh, 22 in Assam, seven in Manipur, three in Meghalaya, four in Mizoram, five in Nagaland and two in Tripura, claim reports. The findings also show that India’s national bird, the Indian Peafowl, has increased dramatically over the past decades. In contrast, 50% of other Indian species of birds have declined over this time period.

Bollywood Director Karan Johar thanked Assam Police and Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal for their support during the 65th Filmfare Awards hosted in Guwahati on February 15. Karan Johar tweeted to say thanks, to which GP Singh, ADGP, Law and Order, Assam Police tweeted back. “Could fly in & out in a jiffy,” says actor Akshay Kumar also tweeted while thanking Assam Police.

Debbie Abrahams, Labour MP from UK for Oldham East & Saddleworth has been denied entry into India. She was deported to Dubai from Delhi airport. Abrahams claimed that she was treated unfairly because of her views on Kashmir. Abrahams claimed that she had valid visa, but the High Commission of India, London claims otherwise. “Mission has confirmed from the Indian immigration authorities that Ms Debbie Abrahams did not hold a valid visa. Further, there is no provision for visa on arrival for UK nationals. She was accordingly requested to return,” the mission tweeted.

Sachin Tendulkar has won Laureus Best Sporting Moment award for “CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF A NATION”-- the moment when his teammates carry him on their shoulders post 2011 ICC World Cup win where  India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets. Tendulkar while accepting the award spoke about the power of sports that can unite people.

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a widespread hacking by Iranian groups who compromised VPN (virtual private network) servers, planted bugs or ‘backdoors’ and succeeded in gaining access to the networks of numerous companies and organizations around the world. During the last quarter of 2019, the research team from the UK-based ClearSky uncovered a widespread Iranian offensive campaign which is called the “Fox Kitten Campaign”