DERGAON, June 2 – A gang of 40 angry tea labourers of Numaligarh tea estate attacked the Numaligarh Forest Beat Office at around 1.30 am on May 29 following a devastation created by wild elephants. The agitated youths destroyed the office building and also assaulted the forest officials. One forest official Thaneswar Nath received a serious injury in the attack. According to information, a group of wild pachyderms came down from Deopahar to the TE in the evening of May 29. The forest officials tried to change the route of the elephants by making noise but the pachyderms again came to the TE...

TEZPUR, June 2 – The Assam Valley School(AVS) set up at Harchura tea estate near Balipara , a small hamlet in northern Assam and 27 kms away from Tezpur, the district headquater of Sonitpur in 1995 by the Magor Education Trust built at the cost of Rs 122 crore, has not only been importing quality education but contributing greatly in the field of human resources. Spread across a 95 hectare of land and surrounded by tea gardens the school is not only helping the students attain their fullest academic potential but equips them in the equally rich fields of physical, cultural and artistic...

AKAJHAN, June 2 – The 3-day Northeastern Regional Assembly of Indigenous and Tribal People’s Organisations with Allies started today at Akajan village 30 kilometres north of Dhemaji town. In the morning session Professor Rose Haokip of Kuki Mothers’ Association presided over the meet, while Suhas Chakma of the Asian Indigenous and Tribal People’s Network made an introductory remark on the draft National Policy on Tribals prepared by the Government of India.

In his remarks, Chakma said that since the Nehruvian era it had been a practice with the Indian rulers to treat the tribals as the people...

SHILLONG, June 2 – A Cabinet sub-committee, constituted to deal with the problem of influx of ‘foreigners’ and ‘outsiders’ into Meghalaya, has recommended the introduction of a 3-tier identity card system to check the menace. Sports and youth affairs minister Paul Lyngdoh, who is the chairman of the cabinet sub-committee on public grievances, today presented the sub-committee’s report, recommending introduction of a three-tier identity card system with 1971 as the ‘cut-off’ year to determine three category of residents – permanent, semi-permanent and temporary.

The sub-committee also...

GUWAHATI, June 2 – More than floods, it is erosion that is posing a serious threat to Assam and according to an estimate, the State is losing land valued at Rs 300 crore a year due to severe erosion, particularly all along the south bank of the river Brahmaputra. Highly placed official sources told The Assam Tribune that the estimate of the loss was a very conservative one as the damage caused to different kinds of structures and crops were not taken into account while preparing the estimate. Sources also revealed that the plain districts of Assam already lost seven percent of the total land...