| BJP demands State Forest Minister's ouster |
In the last one year, 520 animals of various species in KNP have been killed by speeding vehicles on the highway or by poachers. According to the last forest census, there were 2,505 one-horned rhinos in KNP. Out of these, 292 rhinos were killed during Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s regime. — Bijoya Chakraborty
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Sept 26: Kaziranga Nationa... |
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| Partial let-up in flood fury |
Our Bureau/IANS
JORHAT/DHEMAJI/GUWAHATI, Sept 26: The flood situation in Assam showed slight improvement on Wednesday with the water level receding in many parts of the State.
Over 16 districts have been affected by the floods, 18 people killed and 10 persons missing. Over 13 lakh people have been displaced. A large number of affected people have been forced to take shelter on t... |
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| Tea workers demand release of bonus on weekly ration |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Sept 26: Miffed at the State Labour Commissioner for not ensuring that tea garden owners pay tea garden workers the bonus on their weekly ration, activists of the Assam Sangrami Chah Shramik Sangha on Wednesday gheraoed the office of the State Labour Commissioner in Guwahati.
Assam Sangrami Chah Shramik Sangha president Vivek Das said, “Tea ... |
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| Poachers shoot rhino in Kaziranga, decamp with horn |
From a Correspondent/ IANS
JORHAT/GUWAHATI, Sept 26: Barely 48 hours after the recovery of a rhino carcass without the horn in the high security Kaziranga National Park (KNP), suspected poachers shot another rhino inside KNP on Wednesday and decamped with its horn.
The incident came to light when forest officials in the park spotted the rhino on Wednesday, without its horn and w... |
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| B'deshi immigrant yearns to return to his country |
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Sept 26: “I am a Bangladeshi and I want to return to my country”. This is what Bangladeshi citizen Habibur Rahman had to say when mediapersons hounded him outside the court of the additional sessions judge in Guwahati on Wednesday. Rahman hails from the Balukathana village in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district. He was arrested in 2002 from Dhubr... |
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| Ban animal use in poll campaign: ECI |
NEW DELHI, Sept 26: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday issued an order banning the use of animals by political parties during campaigns. In an advisory issued here, the election commission has asked political parties not to use any animals for campaign in any manner, animal rights group said. The election commission has issued an advisory to all political parties and asked them no... |
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| Iran to boycott Oscars this year |
WASHINGTON, Sept 26: Iran has decided not to send any film for the Oscars this year as a mark of protest against the recent anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims which has sparked violence throughout the Middle East, says an entertainment website. The country initially decided to send Reza Mirkarimi’s A Cube of Sugar as their entry for the Best Foreign-Language Film category at the Oscars thi... |
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| 'Lata Mangeshkar insecure of my father's success' |
MUMBAI, Sept 26: Shahid Rafi, son of legendary playback singer Mohammad Rafi, has refuted claims by Lata Mangeshkar that his father had sent her an apology letter to resolve an issue between them. Shahid said, “If she can prove that my father had written an apology letter to her, then she should come out and produce it. In case she does, I am ready to apologize to her. I think she (Lata) is ... |
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| Will India and China fight a war again? |
Part-I
Most Indians rightly see the 1962 war between India and China, and a relatively small military defeat and the major national panic that followed, as a cathartic event. While 1962 will still be the seminal year for Sino-Indian relations, it is in 1967 that Indian and Chinese troops last clashed – at Nathu La. Since then, not a shot has been fired across the border. |
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