Climate Change Threatens Tea Production In India
Region: India
Production of tea in Assam - one of the world’s largest tea producing regions - is on a slow decline, thanks to changing climate in the Brahmaputra river basin. This has been revealed by Prof Chandan Mahanta, a... more
Views: 4411Hundreds Go Missing in India's North East
Region: India
For records, law and order situation has improved a lot in India's North East region of late. There are fewer killings, fewer attacks and fewer people wounded. Now, just when you are all tempted to say ‘how won... more
Views: 1543Earthquake: NE India Wakes Up
Region: India
One of the world’s worst quake-prone belts, the North-east region of India, is finally waking up to the need of disaster preparedness, thanks to the recent Sikkim earthquake. The north-east region of I... more
Views: 2241Major Split in ULFA Expected to Bring Peace in Assam
Region: IndiaThe state government’s effort to bring overground, a section of ULFA’s military wing, has ultimately paid off. Two out of three companies of ULFA’s most dreaded and potent battalion 28 have announced unil... more
Views: 1411Voices We Do Not Hear
Region: India
The people of Majuli are angry. For years, their land , the world’s largest riverine island is having its land mass eroded by the Brahmaputra and no one is doing any thing about it. Not even the Prime Minister who re... more
Views: 1371Assam’s impotent police force witness Adivasi woman being stripped
Region: IndiaAn Adivasi woman is stripped naked near the high-security Assam state Assem-bly. A few cops and CRPF men are on duty but make no attempt to stop this shameful act. It is difficult to come across a police force more impoten... more
Views: 1320Calcutta coal, oil and tea traffic
Region: IndiaIn 1870 the river traffic had grown so much that bringing bunker coal from Calcutta was hampering traffic earnings. The Ledo coalfields were opened up and a short railway built between the coalfields and Dibrugarh on... more
Views: 502Tribute to .Bhabendra Nath Saikia
Region: IndiaEnajori, website dedicated to Assamese Cultural concern & Delhi’s Cotton College Association have organized Special screening of Bhabendra Saikia’s ‘AGNISNAN’. Internationally acclaimed Assamese Fil... more
Views: 122111 serial blasts in Assam, several killed & injured
Region: IndiaEleven serial blasts rocked several districts of Assam today, including four in Guwahati, killing at least seven persons and injuring over 50 others. Several of the injured were said to be in a critical condition ... more
Views: 1609Bombs found in a mosque in Assam
Region: IndiaEven as Osama Bin Laden urged the Muslim community of Assam to launch the fight for an Islamic state in Assam, two bombs have been recovered in a masjid, in the Nalbari district of Assam. Bombs found in a mosque in Assam more
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