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Caught in the floods

A one-horned rhinoceros in the floodwaters at Agaratoli under Kaziranga National Park, Assam on August 2, 2009. The 430 sq km sanctuary is home to the world's largest single concentration of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. In all, 2,048 rhinos were found in Kaziranga National Park, followed by 64 in Orang National Park, 84 in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, and five in Manas National Park, in the last census in the state. In all, 132 persons have been arrested for poaching 46 rhinos in Assam since 2006. Nine rhinos were poached in 2006, 21 in 2007 and 16 in 2008, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said recently.
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The Northeast and its Bandhs

Entry posted by Subir Ghosh on 7 August 2009.

We have seen two, virtually spontaneous, bandhs in the Northeast in the days just gone by. One was a relatively-short 12-hour Assam bandh called in protest against the letting off of the accused in the botched-up Parag Das murder case. The other was a much more gruelling 48-hour bandh called in Manipur over the cold-blooded, fake encounter of a former militant. Bandhs have been so rampant in the Northeast in the last 20 or so years that people have become inured to them. And bandhs, more often than not, are a success without the advocates of the bandhs having to drum up much support for them...

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Between the greens

Entry posted by Divyalina Bhuyan on 13 May 2009.

I always looked forward to visiting a green place within Guwahati city limits. But there was no such area which I could easily think of and locate it. We were a group of thirtyfive students from my college and we were taken to Basistha for our environmental studies project work. I had heard a lot about the Basistha temple from my parents and was wondering what exactly our teachers were going to show us in Basistha beside the age-old temple. Nevertheless, we all were excited to visit the place. Even though I had been staying in Guwahati for more than ten years, I never got the opportunity to go...

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Smiling away

Entry posted by Divyalina Bhuyan on 26 April 2009.

As responsible citizens of India, a group of people who were constantly worried about the underprivileged sections of our society founded the Student’s Mobilisation Initiative for Learning through Exposure (SMILE) in New Delhi in 1986. The main objective was to sensitise young people on various social issues. SMILE began its operations in the Northeast in 1995. Since then SMILE has been playing a leading role towards serving the youth specially street children, handicapped children, downtrodden girls, and orphans. With this vision in mind, the founders of SMILE set out to accomplish a mission...

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The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments. This site has over 6,000 news items that are of value to academics, researchers and journalists.

Subir Ghosh
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments. This site has over 6,000 news items that are of value to academics, researchers and journalists.

Subir Ghosh