The AIUDF is a part of the Grand Alliance comprising the Congress, BPF, CPI(M), CPI, CPI-ML and the Anchalik Gana Morcha.

GUWAHATI: The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), a major constituent of the opposition Congress-led Grand Alliance, on Sunday night released the first list of 16 candidates and said it has renominated seven of its 13 sitting MLAs for the Assam assembly election.

AIUDF president Badruddin Ajmal said that the party has put 11 candidates in alliance with its partners while in five seats, it has decided to go for a friendly contest.

The AIUDF is a part of the Grand Alliance comprising the Congress, BPF, CPI(M), CPI, CPI-ML and the Anchalik Gana Morcha.

Aminul Islam is one of the seven renominated candidates who will contest the Dhing seat, which is the only constituency in the list that goes to polls in the first phase on March 27.

The other six such contestants are Suzamuddin Laskar (Katlicherra), Nizamuddin Choudhury (Algapur), Nazrul Haque (Dhubri), Nijanur Rahman (Gauripur), Hafiz Bashir Ahmed (Bilasipara West) and Dr Hafiz Rafiqul Islam (Jania).

The party presidents brother Sirajuddin Ajmal has been nominated for the Jamunamukh constituency, replacing the elder Ajmal’s son and sitting MLA Abdur Rahim Ajmal.

Phani Talukdar, Aminul Islam (advocate) and Karimuddin Barbhuiya were nominated from Bhabanipur, Mankachar and Sonai constituencies respectively.

The party has decided to go in for a friendly contest in five seats and nominated Minakshi Rahman from Sarukhetri, Rafiqul Islam from Jaleswar, Mujibur Rahman from Dalgaon, Ashraful Hussain from Chenga and Rajib Ahmed from Bagbar.

Elections to the 126-member Assam assembly will be held in three phases on March 27, April one and April six.

Pramesh Jain

Home maker arrested for assaulting traffic cop on busy junction:

The Upparpet police have arrested a 40 year old  woman who slapped a Upparpet Traffic Assistant Sub-Inspector,K Basavaiah,the women even  manhandled and created ruckus on the busy  Mysore bank circle after she was caught jumping traffic signal on Saturday.

The accused has been identified as Apoorvi Dias, 40, resident of Nyanpanahalli,and native of Goa.

Senior officer said,as usual our ASI,who was doing his routine duty near Mysore Bank Circle in the afternoon while on duty he observed a car jumped the traffic signal the cops flagged the car for jumping traffic signal.

On Saturday afternoon,the women along with her family heading home and jumped the signal at KG road and were heading towards palace road.

After stopping the car the ASI,Basavaiah K who was on duty stopped the car at the next junction and explained them about the violation and  asked to pay the fine.

Enraged Apoorvi got down and started hurling with abuses at Basavaiah using unparliamentary language and created ruckus and even slapped the traffic ASI on duty.

The ASI and other staff who were explaining her about the violation she did and were just giving awareness to her by telling to follow traffic rules but the women driver was not ready to listen at all to them and she started shouting at them and started hurling abuses at the ASI.

Then our ASI,Basavaiah asked her to behave properly following which she started accusing him of touching her and held his collar and slapped him in public while he was discharging his duty.

Shocked by this Basavaiah passed the information to control room and the Hoysala police arrived at the spot and took her to the upparpet police station and filed a complaint.

Even at the station the woman was not ready to  apologize for her mistake and was unapologetic and continued to misbehave with police at station too following which an FIR was filed against her followed by legal action as per law.

During questioning it was found that the accused is a home maker and native of Goa was residing in an apartment with her family in Nyanapanahalli main road.

A case has been registered in upparpet police station and the accused has been charged with assaulting government servant on duty,voluntary hurt and intentional insult to provoke,She was later produce before the magistrate and remanded to judicial custody he added.

Pramesh Jain

Duo held Fake Gold, 1298 grams seized by CCB :

The CCB officials of Special inquiry squad wing on Friday arrested two con men who were trying to sell fake gold to the people luring them as genuine gold .

The accused has been identified as Arjun,31,and Rahul,21,both native of Sathemala in Mandya district.

The duo was arrested while they were luring passers by near a lodge on NR road in SJ park area.

Senior officer told media persons,that a credible information was received by our special inquiry squad wing that some two persons are selling gold type item in SJ park near lodge.

Acting on a tip off a special team rushed to the spot and where observing the duo when some passer by was passing from there the duo were trying to sell the fake gold the team who kept a close watch on the duo and nabbed them red handed while trying to sell the gold type items.

The team detained the duo for questioning and during investigation the team got checked the gold type item from goldsmith which they were having and after checking it was found that it is fake gold and based on which the duo has been arrested.

A case has been registered in SJ park police station and further investigating to ascertain their criminal background.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner, Kamal Pant,has appreciated, Joint CP Crime, Sandeep Patil, DCP Crime-1, KP Ravikumar,and his whole team who has successfully nabbed the two Conman who were trying to lure people by selling fake gold and for the timely action and commendable job done by them is highly appreciable and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

B.Tech Student ends life in Bengaluru due to depression.

A 25-year-old B.Tech graduate ended his life by jumping before moving train at Aravantikepalya near Anekal on Friday night.

It is alleged he was under depression after Covid attack and it led him to take this extreme step,the police said.

The deceased has been identified as Suneel Kumar,25,a resident of Mayasandra.

A senior police officer, said that,Kumar left home around 6 pm after informing his mother that he would go for evening walking.As he did not return home till midnight the parents started searching for him.Around 8.30 pm he jumped before a moving train at Aravantikepalya and ended his life.

The loco pilot of the passenger train alerted guards and Baiyyapanahalli Railway police rushed to the spot and shifted the body for postmortem.

Later Anekal police informed about the incident to Suryanarayana Swamy,father of the deceased.

Swamy,who runs a small scale business told the police that Kumar had Covid attack a month ago and he was under treatment for few days.Later he was discharged from the hospital and went  under severe depression.

He had stopped talking with his parents and was used to be alone.He was taken into counselling for a few days and the doctors advised him that he is under depression and had asked family not to let him alone.

The Baiyyapanahalli police have taken up a case and are investigating.

Those in distress or those having suicidal tendencies can call Arogya Sahayavani Ph: 104 for help.)

MYMBAI: A total of 36 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra Legislative assembly, informed JJ hospital on Monday.

“A total of 2,746 samples were tested for re-entry to the legislative assembly for the budget session of Maharashtra on March 6 and 7, out of which 36 were found positive,” JJ hospital said in a statement.

The samples were taken from MLAs, their staff, government officials, police personnel and journalists, etc who are attending the assembly sessions from last week. A test was conducted a week back also when over 3,900 samples were tested and 42 were found COVID-19 positive.

The Maharashtra assembly will table the budget on Monday morning. The budget will be presented by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar who holds charge of the finance ministry.

The budget session of the Maharashtra assembly was earlier curtailed due to a surge in COVID-19 cases.

The state, meanwhile, registered 10,187 fresh COVID-19 infections and 47 deaths on Sunday, the union health ministry informed. 

Kolkata: At least six people were injured in a blast in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district when they were allegedly manufacturing bombs, police said on Saturday.

The incident happened at the residence of one of the injured persons in Gosaba area on Friday night, a senior police officer said.

A preliminary investigation revealed that they belong to a political party, he said. They are undergoing treatment at Canning Sub- Divisional Hospital, the officer said.

Family members of the injured people claimed that the six are supporters of the BJP and were attacked by Trinamool Congress activists when they were coming from a marriage ceremony.

“We are aware of the claims of their family members.

It seems that they were manufacturing bombs when the blast occurred. We are investigating the matter and talking to local people,” the officer said.

Bengaluru: Senior Kannada poet, writer N.S Lakshminarayana Bhatta (85) passed away at his Banashankari residence during the early hours on Saturday. 

Having contributed in various genres with his Lyrical composition, literary criticism, translation, song writing for children, and several other works of writings, he was famously known as NSL in the world of Kannada literature. 

‘Baare Nanna Deepika, Madhura Kaavyarupaka’, ‘Toredu Hogadiro Jogi’. ‘Adigeragida ee Deenala Marethu’, ‘Nee Sigade Baalondu Baale Krishna’ are some of his famous written works. 

Chief Minister B.S Yediyurappa expressed his condolences on the passing of the renowned Poet N.S. Lakshminarayana Bhatta on Saturday.