Daily News - 25 Jan, 2020
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Six militant outfits have called for 12 hour shutdown-6 am to 6 pm- in northeast India on January 26. The factions in a joint statement stated, “Indian rule in our region is theoretically republican, but in reality, deep-rooted oppression of the indigenous is prevalent, which is quite contradictory to republicanism.” They further claimed that the “so-called republican Constitution of India fails to actually entitle the people of this region to republican liberty.” President of Brazil Jair Messias Bolsonaro will be the chief guest for Republic Day celebrations at Rajpath in New Delhi on January 26 this year.

State Finance, Health, and PWD minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the state government will take the course of law to deal with a man named Sharjeel Imam who was shown making offensive remarks on Assam in a video. In a press conference at CM Block, Janata Bhawan, Guwahati, Sarma spoke with reporters regarding the video. Imam in a video is heard speaking to a gathering. He says  that five lakh organised people can cut the North-east from rest of India.  Soon after the press conference by State Cabinet Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in Guwahati on Saturday, an FIR has been lodged against Sharjeel Imam for his derogatory speech

Ahead of the upcoming State budget, the BJP led state government has announced various subsidies for the poor. In a rally, State Finance, Health, and PWD minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that the government will offer rice for free to the poor. Pulses and sugar will also be available at subsidized rates in the budget. Under the government’s flagship scheme ‘Affordable Nutrition and Nourishment Assistance (ANNA) Yojna’  two crore people of the State are provided rice at Rs 1/kg. Several other schemes that will benefit people will be announced in the budget, Sarma said. The Minister also hit out at Congress and accused the part of playing vote bank politics by allowing illegal Bangladeshis to settle down at Kaziranga National Park.

In an identity verification exercise carried out by police across coffee estates in Kodagu, around 5000 migrants, mostly from Assam and West Bengal, were gathered at centres in Madikeri, Virajpet and Kushalnagar for purpose of identification. They were asked for their Aadhaar card, Permanent Account Number card and voter IDs. There were 500 migrants who did not possess required documents, according to reports.

A day after Amit Shah said his phone got discharged but he could not avail Wifi in Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the former BJP chief should keep his phone charged with the free electricity provided by the AAP government as Wifi cannot be used if the phone is off. Speaking to the media, Sisodia said the Delhi government is not just giving free Wifi but also free electricity up to 200 units. 

A BJP legislator entered the Rajasthan Assembly building with a decorated basket containing locusts here on Friday to protest against the Congress-led government’s alleged apathy towards the state’s farmers who have suffered crop losses due to locust attacks. The innovative and unconventional form of protest by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Bihari Lal caught everyone’s attention as soon he entered the Assembly building with a basket on his head.

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Friday said there is no need to panic or fear about the Novel Coronavirus (CoV) disease for the people in India. Speaking to IANS, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria said: “Mortality due to Novel Coronavirus may not be high but we still need to be vigilant because we don’t want it to spread rapidly here. The important issue here is to have good control to prevent the infection from spreading.”