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TEZPUR, May 1 ? Coinciding with the centenary celebration of the cultural icon Rupkonwar Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, the Sonitpur district administration has decided to renovate ?Poki?, the ancestral home of Rupkonwar and popularly known as Jyoti Bharati on the north bank of the river Brahmaputra through the MP fund, said Sri Sanjoy Lohiya, Deputy Commissioner Sonitpur. Talking to this correspondent, Sri Lohiya said that the State PWD deportment has been entrusted to submit an estimate and added that Rs 2 lakh has been sanctioned as an initial grant for renovation. Besides that a new committee with...

GUWAHATI, May 1 ? Assam accounts for 9.4 per cent of the total flood ? prone area of the country and every year, floods cause heavy damage to the economy of the State. The National Flood Commission estimated the area vulnerable to floods in Assam as 31.60 lakh hectares against 335.16 lakh hectares in the whole country.

According to the latest report of the Economic Survey of Assam, Successive waves of devastating floods every year virtually destroyed the economy of the State. The main factors for floods in Assam include adverse physiography of the region, heavy rain fall, excessive...

NEW DELHI, April 30 ? All villages in the North-east would be electrified by 2012. This assurance was given to the all-party delegation of the Assam Legislative Assembly by Union Power Minister Suresh Prabhu here today. Prabhu further disclosed that his Ministry was considering a proposal not to make security-related expenditure part of the cost of power projects. Prabhu said he had already taken up the issue with the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister. A final decision is likely to be taken soon, he assured. The all-party delegation led by Assam Legislative Assembly Speaker, Prithibi...

AGARTALA, April 30 ? The Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF), an outfit of Mizoram has scaled down their demand for autonomous district council to the regional council to facilitate signing of a peace accord with the Mizoram government. The president of the BNLF Thang Masha in a memorandum to Mizoram government recently said for an early solution of problems through a peace accord it has scaled down the demand to regional council for the Bru community which can be formed in the western part of the Mamit district. Masha has put forward 12 point charter of demands to the State government...

GUWAHATI, April 30? The elephant population in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) has increased to 1007 since the year 1997 as per the latest pachyderm counts carried out in the park during March this year. The director of Kaziranga Park yesterday informed The Assam Tribune that the wildlife protection area has registered an increase in pachyderm population by 62 members over the 1997 census figure of 945. The last elephant census in KNP was carried out during March 17 to 23 this year, and the final count done on March 23 put the number of pachyderms at 1007. During the elephant census this year...