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GUWAHATI, March 31 — The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) today expelled former Rajya Sabha member Jayashree Goswami Mahanta from the party for filing her nomination as an independent candidate from the Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency. AGP spokesman Jagadish Bhuyan said that the party president Brindaban Goswami took the decision to expel Goswami Mahanta, wife of former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, from the party following discussions with other senior leaders of the party. He said that Goswami Mahanta went against the interest of the party by filing nomination against the AGP candidate...

GUWAHATI, March 31 – Disappearance of the full-grown tall nesting and roosting trees such as Kadam, Simul and Satiana (Devil tree) etc from the vital nesting sites, has been posing a serious threat to the adjutant stork species, said Dr PK Saikia of the Gauhati University (GU) Zoology Department. Adjutant storks, particularly the greater adjutant stork or hargila, are the only surviving largest wetland bird species on the earth. The largest colonies of the species in countries like Burma (Myanmar), Vietnam and Sundarban etc places have completely disappeared. But following identification of...

NEW DELHI, March 31 — On a day when Assam Government’s amnesty offer to fleeing militants from Bhutan expired, North East Coordination Committee on Human Rights (NECOHR), an apex body of human rights organisations, called on the Royal Government of Bhutan to publish the names of all those killed, detained and handed over to the Government of India. The bone of contention is the whereabouts of at least 19 cadres of outlawed ULFA and NDFB, who are traceless. The cadres reported to have been captured during the ongoing operation in the Himalayan Kingdom were not to be heard again, provoking deep...

NEW DELHI, March 31 — The Bill to repeal the controversial IMDT Act would be re-introduced in the Parliament and the NDA Government would label the problem of illegal infiltration as a major issue in its manifesto, disclosed Nationalist Trinamool Congress (NTC) leader, PA Sangma here today. Sangma’s NTC which is a key constituent of the NDA has been involved in the process of drafting of ruling alliance’s manifesto slated to be released on April 8 by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

“While the issue of illegal infiltration from across the border would be prominent issue we have been given...

GUWAHATI, May 22 – The State Government has submitted a proposal to the Centre proposing creation of four District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs) in the four newly-formed districts with the objective of expediting the development process in these areas. Three of the four districts selected for the purpose are Chirang, Baska, and Udalguri falling under the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), while the fourth one is the Kamrup (Metropolitan) district. The development blocks to be included in the new DRDAs are Sidli, Chirang and Barbazar (Chirang district), Baska, Nagrijuli and Goreswar...