News

DIBRUGARH, June 15 ? Even as the Forest department is busy ?evicting encroachers from reserve forests?, timber smugglers appear to be having a field day in the expansive Upper Dehing reserve forest, under the Digboi forest division. Dozens of valuable ?hard wood? trees have been felled ? illegally of course ? in the past few days. The Supreme Court has banned tree felling in the Upper Assam districts, but this means nothing to the miscreants. Several illegally felled trees have been rolled into the swollen Buri Dehing river, a little upstream of Joypur (near Naharkatia). These are mostly...

MUSSALPUR (Nalbari), June 15 ? The All Assam Students? Union (AASU) and the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU) the two major students? organisations of the State have decided to work together for the development of the students community besides the all round development of the State. The leaders of both the student organisations recently took an oath to fight against those evil power who are trying to create divisions among the students, in solidarity day function held at Mussalpur in Nalbari district recently. Addressing the meeting the president of AASU Prabin Boro said that to unite the...

GUWAHATI, June 15? The dawn to dusk Assam bandh called by the Bhumi Adhikar Ganamancha: Assam (BAGA) today in protest against the eviction drives conducted by the Forest Department to clear State?s forest areas of eviction, passed off somehow peacefully without any report of major untoward incident from any place. However, the bandh had affected normal life partially. In the city, today being a Saturday, Central Government offices remained closed, while attendance in other offices including the State Government offices was thin. The long distance buses connecting the suburban area with the...

NEW DELHI, June 15 ? The derailed Rangiya Rail Division Project is back on tracks and the much-delayed project is likely to be formally inaugurated shortly. This was the indication given to a delegation of Purbanchaliya Rail Karmi Parishad (PRKP) by Union Railway Minister, Nitish Kumar here yesterday. The AGP affiliated workers union is the latest group to petition the Centre to revive the Rangiya Rail Division Project sanctioned by the then P V Narasimha Rao Government and the foundation of which was laid way back on November 8, 1995. earlier, Rangiya Rail Division Sangram Parishad (RRDSP)...

GUWAHATI, June 14 ? Terming the ongoing eviction drive in the State as ?ethnic cleansing?, the Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC), Karbi Students? Association (KSA) and Karbi Nimso Chingthur Asong (KNCA) today said it was a conspiracy of the Congress regime to drive out the indigenous and tribal population from their forest habitats including tribal belts and blocks by systematically depriving them of long overdue ownership of land, and justifying this anti-people action under the pretext of the Supreme Court directive. In a statement, the organisations alleged that the Statewide...