Daily News - 18 Jan, 2020
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Sanjoy Kishan, MLA from Tinsukia and Jogen Mohan, MLA from Mahmora were sworn in as ministers on Saturday at Raj Bhawan in Guwahati. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Finance & Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary, Culture Minister Naba Kumar Doley, BJP president Ranjeet Dass and MPs Queen Oja and Kamakhya Prasad Tasa along with others were present during the event. Kishan belongs to the tea tribe community and Mohan comes from the Ahom community.

Nok Air will temporarily suspend flights between Guwahati and Bangkok starting January 20. The flight which takes off twice a week is expected to resume services on April 12, 2020. The flight schedule for April will be out soon. Passengers who had booked tickets between the period will get a full refund, Nok Air announced in an alert. Nok Air launched its services in the city on September 22, 2019.

With a view to make Sri Surya Pahar a tourist-friendly archaeological site with all the necessary facilities, the Goalpara district administration has taken several recent initiatives to uplift it. The Deputy Commissioner of Goalpara Varnali Deka inaugurated a newly constructed guest house at Sri Surya Pahar Campus which will fulfill a long pending demand of the visiting tourists to this popular site. Besides, the district administration arranged ten numbers of large size dustbins to be placed all over the area which is donated by the Goalpara Municipality Board.

13-year-old weightlifter Golom Tinku won the first gold for the state of Arunachal Pradesh at the ongoing Khelo India Games in Guwahati. The weightlifter won gold in Under-17, 55kg weightlifting competition at Bhogeswari Phukanani Indoor Stadium in Guwahati. Tinku broke the 55kg Junior National record for the clean and jerk in Bihar recently. Tinku comes from a farming family in Arunachal.

All pending cases of sexual harassment on Sports Authority of India (SAI) campuses will be disposed off within the next four weeks, Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said. Rijiju’s statement comes in response to a report which said that little or no action has been taken in 45 cases of sexual harassment that were reported from 24 SAI institutes over the last 10 years.

Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the NPR process is “disguised” to carry out NRC in the country. Chidambaram who was in Kolkata to conduct a leadership training camp among state party leaders urged political parties opposing CAA, NRC to come together and stand united. He said that this was a fight to save the Constitution of the country. He also praised students for leading protests against CAA and fighting for “constitutional integrity.”

Senior lawyer Indira Jaising was slammed by many after she urged Asha Devi, Nirbhaya’s mother, to follow the example of Sonia Gandhi who had pardoned her husband Rajiv Gandhi’s killer Nalini. Asha Devi had expressed disappointment over the decision of a Delhi court which issued fresh death warrants against the convicts. The Nirbhaya convicts will now be hanged to death at Delhi’s Tihar Jail at 6 a.m. on February 1st.

Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Government of India told reporters that Sardar Patel’s, Statue of Unity in Gujarat will create an “economic ecosystem around it worth at least Rs one lakh crore in the years to come.” Goyal was in Gujarat to examine the ongoing construction work of the Kevadiya-Vadodara railway line.

Joshy Kalluveettil from Kerala filed a Right to Information application seeking documents that can prove Prime Minister Modi’s Indian Citizenship. Kalluveettil filed the application with the public information officer of Chalakkudy municipality on January 13. Kalluveettil told media that the application reflects concerns of people who will have to prove their citizenship.