Amid the chanting of hymns, preceded by a gun salute and band played by the Assam Police, the state's longest serving chief minister's mortal remains were consigned to flames by his son Gaurav Gogoi.
The Assam government is making preparations for around 1,000 people to attend the last rites of former chief minister Tarun Gogoi, to be performed with full state honours at the Nabagraha cremation ground on Thursday, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
A leopard, which had strayed outside its habitat atop Nabagraha hills in Guwahati, was captured using a tranquiliser after a three-hour long attempt in Silphukhuri area of the city. The leopard had injured three persons and also sustained minor injuries after panic-stricken people tried to scare it away by throwing stones at it. The animal was first spotted inside a residential campus in the thickly-populated area at around 11.30 am.
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