NEW DELHI, Dec 10 ? Undeterred by rejection of the peace offer by outlawed ULFA, Dr Mamoni Raisom Goswami has again decided to move Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and request him to write to ULFA chief Paresh Baruah directly.

Dr Goswami is planning to hand over the fresh letter personally to the Prime Minister, when she meets him tomorrow at a book release function. The latest letter, a draft of which was forwarded to Paresh Baruah through e-mail for approval, mainly speaks about the need to assure ULFA chief that Government favours unconditional talks.

Dr Goswami said that she was planning...

IMPHAL, Dec 9 ? Violence against the weaker section of the Manipuri society is on the rise with the report of 168 crimes (against women) since the beginning of this year till date. This was stated in a seminar held as part of the international fortnight observation protesting violence against women and girls from November 25 till December 10 under the aegis of the United NGOs? Mission, Manipur at the premises of the Manipur Volunteers? Health Association, Imphal.

?There were 12 women murder cases, four attempted murders, 11 suicides, 28 assaults, 17 child abuse cases, 49 complaint cases and 23...

GOLAGHAT, Dec 9 ? The centenary celebration of the Kaziranga National Park is going to be held in the month of February 2005. It may be mentioned here that the Kaziranga National Park was declared in 1908 as a forest reserve and on February 11 in 1974, Kaziranga was declared as a national park.

This year an increase in foreign tourists is being expected. The world famous one-horned rhino population has been increasing gradually. An increase in the tourist flow is also expected in Nameri, Pabitora, Orang, Dibru-Chaikhowa national parks. According to the office of the State Tourism, there is a...

GUWAHATI, Dec 9 ? What could be called their channel to survival, small canopy bridges have come to facilitate the movement of hoolock gibbons (Bunopithecus hoolock) in a part of their habitat. This recent initiative of some researchers and scholars have given isolated populations of hoolock gibbons access to new territories, which according to experts, would lead to healthy populations of the species.

The project named ?Survey and study of the behavioural response of Hoolock Gibbon in fragmented forest and its conservation perspectives,? also covered valuable ground in establishing major home...

NEW DELHI, Dec 9 ? Keeping with the commitment made by the Prime Minister, the Guwahati-Bangkok flight has been revived and the first flight would leave on January 1, Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patil announced here today. But Air India is out of the picture and the weekly flights would be operated by the Indian Airlines.

The international carrier opted out of Guwahati-Bangkok sector following huge loss of revenue after operating the flights for about a year. The flight was introduced with much fanfare in April 2002.

Meanwhile, faced with flaks from MPs of the North-east, the Civil...