Tripura ministers attacked with chair
Agartala, February 29 (IANS): Tripura ministers Badal Chaudhury and Manik Dey sustained minor injuries when a man attacked them in the CPI-M office here with a chair, police said on Monday. Police arrested Samir Debnath, 30, who on Sunday night went to the office and targeted Health and PWD Minister Chaudhury and Transport and Power Minister Dey. Samir Debnath initially told the ministers that his father was critically ill and he needed money for his medical treatment. The claim was found to be untrue, a police official said. Debnath's family is known to support the Communist Party of India-Marxist. During the incident, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and CPI-M leaders Bijan Dhar and Gautam Das were at the party office.
Working hrs in Assam Govt changed to Summer timings from March 1
Guwahati, February 29 (PTI): The office working hours in all offices under the Assam Government and state Secretariat from March 1 tomorrow to September 30 next on all working days will be from 10 AM to 5 PM without any break. This was as per a Government of Assam General Administration Department notification dated February 26, said a government release today. During the winter season from October till February, the office working hours in all offices under the Assam Government and state Secretariat were from 10 AM to 4.15 PM without break.
Kropha takes over as M'laya Chief Secretary
Shillong, February 29 (IANS): Senior bureaucrat Kuljit Singh Kropha on Monday took over as the new Chief Secretary of Meghalaya. He succeeded P.B.O. Warjri, who retired on Monday. Kropha, a 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Assam-Meghalaya cadre officer, served in the central government in various capacities besides in Meghalaya. Before his appointment as chief secretary, he was additional chief secretary in charge of Home (Police), Transport and Political Department and additional chief secretary to the chief minister's secretariat.
Commercial vehicles to stay off road in Mizoram
Aizawl, February 29 (PTI): Mizoram will stay off the roads tomorrow in protest against different decisions made recently by the state government including hike in vehicle life-time tax and plying of cabs on alternate days. Announcing this at the press conference here, leaders of the Mizoram Commercial Vehicles Joint Action Committee (MCVJAC) said that the hike of the rate of life-time vehicle tax to six per cent of the cost of the vehicle was not implemented by all the states while the state government implemented it in a haste. The vehicle owners also accused the government of interested only in mobilising additional resources from the vehicle owners and drivers while being extremely pathetic towards solving the problems faced by commercial vehicle owners. All commercial vehicles, including city buses, taxis, trucks carrying commodities, private buses and maxicabs plying between different places inside and outside Mizoram would be off the roads for a day tomorrow, the leaders said. Meanwhile, taxi owners and drivers today took out a processing in Aizawl in protest against the government's plan to introduce odd-even scheme from March one.
