Morning News Nuggets
1. Assam: Smuggled wildlife seized in Karbi Anglong; 2 held
Teams from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Guwahati, Assam Police and Forest Department seized smuggled wildlife and animal parts from two persons at Bokajan market in Karbi Anglong, official sources informed.
2. Mohit Chauhan's NGO supplies COVID relief items to Arunachal Pradesh
Mohit Chauhan through his NGO Nivesh and its initiative 'Project Bajrangi' has contributed a range of essential medical supplies to the Arunachal Pradesh government.
3. WAR ON DRUGS: Himanta vows to curb traffickers from using Assam as transit route
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma pledged that he would never allow Assam to be henceforth used as a transit route for psychotropic substances.
4. 25 people killed in Mumbai due to landslides and wall collapse, PM announces Rs 2 lakh ex gratia
Three separate incidents of landslides claimed as many as 25 lives, and left several injured in eastern and central Mumbai suburbs.
5. First Batch of Indian athletes leave for Tokyo Olympics
Sports Minister Anurag Thakur and Minister of State for Sports Nisith Pramanik gave a formal send-off to the first batch of the Indian Olympic contingent for the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
Ruling that mandatory vaccination is not a measure to allow the opening of institutions, organisations, factories, shops, markets, private offices etc, the Manipur High Court has stated that denying livelihood by linking employment of people to their getting vaccinated is an illegal act of the state.
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