Kohima police seizes ganja worth Rs 7 lakh
Kohima: Kohima Police manning Khuzama Inter-State Police Check Gate on Monday seized a vehicle laden with contraband ganja of about 140 Kgs worth Rs seven lakh.According to a release by the PRO of Kohima Police Atu Zumvu, the policemen, while conducting routine checking and frisking of vehicles have intercepted one vehicle bearing Manipur registration number and recovered approximately 140 kgs of contraband ganja worth Rs 7 lakh in the national market. In this connection, one person aged 29 years, a resident of Kamjong village under Kamjong Chassad Police Station of Ukhrul district of Manipur, was taken into police custody. A regular case in the Khuzama Police Station under the NDPS Act is registered against him for conducting further investigation, the release said. (UNI)
Kaziranga National Park will be closed from May 16
Guwahati: Known for its one horned Rhino worldwide, Kaziranga National Park will shut its doors for visitors from Tuesday for the annual recess during monsoon and will reopen in mid of October this year. Increased rainfall during the monsoon time submerges most of the park’s area making it difficult for the jeep to ply for safaris. The normal safari is from November 1 to April 30. Earlier, this year Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had said that the government will try to keep open the park from October 1 to May 30. The park spread over an area of 430 square kilometre houses world’s largest population of Rhino. (UNI)
Nagaland Guv calls Special House session on May 27
Kohima: Nagaland Governor P B Acharya has summoned a Special Session of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly on May 27 next. According to a release by the commissioner and secretary of the Nagaland Assembly secretariat N Benjamir Newmai on Monday said that the Governor, in exercise of the power by Article 174 of the Constitution of India, has summoned the Sixteenth (Special) Session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly to meet at the Assembly Hall in the Nagaland Assembly Secretariat on Saturday May 27. (UNI)
Indian trader sent to Dhaka jail for smuggling gold
Agartala: An Indian citizen was arrested from Dhaka’s Sahajalal International Airport with five gold biscuits, weighing 1.5 KG and worth Rs 78 lakh on Sunday, Bangladeshi newspapers reported on Monday. According to report, he was given 10-day police remand after being produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhaka, by the investigating officer. Accused Saurav Mandal is a trader of imitation jewelleries and resident of Kolkata. He boarded the Bangkok-Chittagong-Dhaka flight of the Regent Airways from Chittagong. Acting on tip- off the immigration officials challenged him after arrival in Dhaka and recovered the gold biscuits hidden in his shoes. During investigation he reportedly told the custom officials that he boarded the flight from Chittagong and collected the gold from seat no-17 and then put them in his shoes. (UNI)