GUWAHATI, May 29? Digboi refinery, the oldest refinery in the country, has not been able to produce speciality products to its full capacity due to lack of demand in the North-eastern region. Digboi refinery sources revealed that the refinery produces speciality products like MTO, JBO, Solar Oil, wax oil, binder oil, rhino shine, indo coat, indo paste, wood oil etc to cater to the requirements of the tea companies, paint industry, shipping industry, jute industry and various other industries. But some industries are still using such products imported from outside mainly due to lack of...

DIMAPUR, May 29 ? The NSCN(IM) has threatened to go in for a referendum on its demand for the integration of Naga-inhabited areas of the North East if the Centre continues to be ?indecisive on the issue. The 2-daylong parley between the Government of India and the NSCN-IM at the Thai capital, Bangkok might not have yielded results much to the expectations of the outfit, but it has once again raised the issues of integration of Naga-inhabited areas of the Northeast. According to NSCN-IM sources, ?the talks have been informal?, but it is learnt that both sides took up certain issues, although...

GUWAHATI, May 29: The Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, beginning with the lack of basic amenities to the invasion of rats, is now grappling with another problem? that of mass exodus of superspecialist doctors who, after their return from higher training abroad, resign from their Government jobs at the GMCH. These superspecialists from the GMCH are send abroad by the State Government for higher training, but as they quit the GMC after their return, the fruits of their training fail to reach the poor patients of the State who are...

GUWAHATI, May 29 ? A series of ring wells with terracota rings on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra may help in establishing the age of the Brahmaputra Valley Civilisation. A team of the Guwahati Circle of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), led by Superintending Archaeologist Dr Syed Jamal Hasan, recently discovered a series of about ten ring wells buried under about two metres of earth at Borachuburi village, one kilometer ahead of Da-Parbatia in Sonitpur District. The place is located along the northern bank of Brahmaputra river.

Exploration in the area led to the discovery of...

Guwahati, May 29: Assam?s official symbol, the one-horned rhino, has a new price tag: a whopping Rs 15 lakh for each.

The price was stagnant at Rs 6.5 lakh for over a decade till the state government more than doubled the figure with effect from June 1. The notification on the increase in the price was issued recently by the joint secretary of the forest department.

Assam is home to over 80 per cent of the world?s population of the rhinoceros unicornis, whose natural habitats are confined to the Himalayan terrain stretching from central Nepal to parts of the Northeast.

The population of the...