AASU activists obstructing the construction of an approach road to download the turbines and other equipment for the Lower Subansiri hydro power project from the ship at Jahaj Ghat at Tezpur on Saturday. – UB Photos
2 poachers arrested; rhino horn seized
Morigaon, Aug 22 (PTI): Police today claimed to have arrested two poachers and seized a horn of the highly endangered one-horned rhino from their possession in Morigaon district. ...2 militants killed in Manipur encounter
Imphal, Aug 22 (PTI): Two suspected militants were killed in an encounter with security forces at Tairenpokpi village in Senapati district, officials said today. ...
Tharoor, Pushkar are man and wife
Palakkad (Kerala), Aug 22 (IANS): At about 8.30 am, Shashi Tharoor tied the auspicious 'thali' around long-time friend Sunanda Pushkar's neck, exchanged jasmine garlands with her and presented her with a 'podava' or new set of clothes, in a tradition ...
Prime accused in Tamang murder case escapes
Darjeeling, Aug 22 (IANS): Gorkha Janamukti Morhca central committee member Nicol Tamang, one of the prime accused in the murder of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) chief Madan Taman, fled from police custody in Darjeeling district this morning. ...
Women’s Reservation Bill in LS soon
NEW DELHI, Aug 21 – The much-awaited Women’s Reservation Bill will be brought to the Lok Sabha soon, the government said today, reports PTI. ...
ONGC project to help end Northeast's power crisis
Agartala, Aug 22 (IANS): The State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) 726-MW project coming up in Tripura will help to resolve the power crisis in the electricity-starved northeastern region by 2012, ONGC officials said. ...
Economic blockade at Charaipung
SONARI, Aug 21 – “The people of Assam will not allow any neighbouring State to capture even one inch of its land and the geographical map of Assam would not be allowed to change at any cost,” said Tapan Kumar Gogoi, AASU’s general secretary at Charai ...
AASU stir against dam turbines
TEZPUR, Aug 21 – Hundreds of AASU activists stopped the construction work of the approach road to unload the turbines and other equipment for lower Subansiri hydel project at Jahaj Ghat here today. NHPC authority had engaged a large number of laboure ...
LS to take up N-Bill on Wednesday
NEW DELHI, Aug 21 – The Nuclear Liability Bill will be taken up in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the day Parliament will resume after a three-day recess, reports PTI. ...
Outposts alerted along inter-State borders
GUWAHATI, Aug 21 – With the involvement of armed militants in the border trouble in the Charaipung area coming into open, all the border outposts of the Assam Police along the inter-state boundary with Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland have been alerted ...
Nobel laureate to grace IIT Guwahati fest
GUWAHATI, Aug 21 – Several eminent academics, engineers and other achievers would be interacting with students and youth in the 2010 edition of Techniche to be held from September 2 to 5 at IIT Guwahati. Foremost among them is Ferid Murad, the Americ ...
Man-elephant conflict turns grim
GUWAHATI, Aug 21 – Areas bordering Bhutan in Udalguri district continue to be at the centre of a raging man-elephant conflict, with mounting fatalities for both. A disturbing aspect of the conflict has been the spurt in elephant deaths due to electro ...
