AZARA, Feb 15? Brick industries located at different parts of south Kamrup area have been creating environmental pollution during the winter season every year. It may be noted here that about 50 brick industries are located at Dharapur, Khanamukh, Azara, Garal, Palasbari, Nahira etc in south Kamrup.

The pollution level of the brick kilns is increasing so much so that it has affected most of the agricultural lands in entire south Kamrup. Over 20,000 acres of prime agricultural lands are being annually lost to accommodate these industries. Unfortunately, the black smoke emanating from a jet...

TEZPUR, Feb 15 ? The Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), popularly known as the ?Assam Accord Refinery?, which was included in the Accord signed on August 15, 1985, as a part of the Centre?s economic package for speedy development of Assam, is now trying to export its products, to geographically contiguous countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar, according to BK Das, Managing Director, NRL.

Talking exclusively to this correspondent at Tezpur University complex, Das said being logistically easy to access through road, rail and river routes, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar are a natural...

Shillong, Feb. 14: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A. Sangma?s support base in his home state seems to be on the wane. The results of the elections to the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo Hills Autonomous District Councils, held on February 12, were declared today.

All the councils have 29 seats each. Sangma?s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) could manage only 11 out of the 87 seats in all the three district councils and failed to open its account in Khasi and Jaintia hills. The Congress is set to form the executive councils in all the three districts. While in Khasi Hills the Congress won 16 seats, in...

Imphal, Feb. 14: Launching a counterattack on the Opposition, Manipur Speaker T.N. Haokip today accused the Democratic Peoples Alliance of making ?irresponsible statements? to implicate him in the abduction and murder of taxation minister Francis Ngajokpa?s eight-year-old daughter Lungnila Elizabeth.

Breaking his silence since prime suspect James Kuki linked him last month to the murder, the Speaker said the allegations were politically motivated to damage his image.

The suspect had allegedly revealed before the NSCN (Isak-Muivah) that the Speaker, PWD minister Gaikhangam and tribal...

Agartala, Feb. 14: The BJP?s state unit has decided to contest the Lok Sabha polls alone, despite the NDA?s announcement to strike an alliance with the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT). ?There has been an alliance between the INPT and the NDA, but it has got nothing to do with the BJP, at least in Tripura,? state BJP president Ranajay Deb said.

Deb is against an alliance with the INPT because of the latter?s stand on militancy. ?How can we accept in our fold a man like Bijay Hrangkhwal, who has been an insurgent leader and even two years ago had spoken in favour of militants in...