-PTI/ The Telegraph Altogether 3658 persons were evacuated with the help of 276 boats across the state by NDRF, SDRF and other agencies. The flood situation in Assam remained grim on Thursday with over 54.5 lakh people still affected and 12 fresh deaths reported, officials said. The toll due to the flood since mid-May is now 101, they said. Brahmaputra and Barak rivers along with its tributaries are in spate in most of the...
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Police Reform via New Legislation Should Not Dilute State Role -Ajay K Mehra
-TheWire.in As the police reform discourse has begun again, let us recall some of the glaring incidents that have crossed the limits of the rule of law. Police has been in the news recently, mostly for the wrong reasons. Let us recall some of the glaring incidents that have crossed the limits of the rule of law to contextualise the discussion on police reforms in India. The Justice V.S. Sripurkar Commission set up...
More »SC Orders Police Against Abuse of Sex Workers, Media from Publishing Their Pictures
-TheWire.in The apex court issued these directions in exercise of power under Article 142 of the constitution since the Union government is yet to come up with legislation on this matter. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed that the police should treat sex workers with dignity and should not abuse them, acknowledging that the basic protection of human decency and dignity extends to them. It further directed that the media should...
More »Assam gets 62% above normal pre-monsoon rain. Floods made worse by dams, say locals -Rokibuz Zaman
-Scroll.in Residents of Hojai and Nagaon districts said a dam upstream caused the waters of the Kopili river to swell abruptly. For at least a week, all of Janghal Block village in Assam’s Hojai district was under water. After heavy pre-monsoon rains, the nearby Kopili river – a tributary of the Brahmaputra – had been in full spate. On May 15, the river waters entered the village. As it flooded homes, residents of...
More »9 Die In Assam Floods, Over 6 Lakh Affected Across 27 Districts: 10 Facts -Ratnadip Choudhury
-NDTV.com Villages along the Brahmaputra, one of the world's largest rivers, are flooded as water level rose following heavy rains Guwahati: More than 6.6 lakh people spread over 27 districts of Assam, have been hit by the floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains in the state. Nine people have died. Here are the Top 10 points in this big story: 1. More than 48,000 people have been shifted to 248 relief camps. 2. Hojai and Cachar...
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