SHILLONG, July 17 ? With no let-up in the flood situation in Garo Hills areas, a high-level state official team reached Tura to assess the situation even as distribution of relief materials among the affected people was on, reports PTI. West Garo Hills district Deputy Commissioner S Jagannathan told PTI from Tura that rice, dal and salt were being distributed for the last three days to the affected people in 32 temporary shelters. Extra quantities of kerosene oil were also arranged for the homeless people. As Rs 5 lakh was sanctioned by the government for undertaking relief work, medicine and...

GUWAHATI, July 17 ? Assam Foundation of North America, Inc (AFNA), a non-profit making, charitable organization founded in 1982 and registered as a tax-exempt organisation under the Internal Revenue Services Department of the Government of USA and working for the sole purpose of charitable causes in Assam, India and North America, recently held its annual general body meeting during the Assam Convention 2004 at the Renaissance hotel in Austin, Texas.

The meeting started with the presentation of the financial statement by the outgoing committee, which showed that, in the last two years, about...

GOLAGHAT, July 17 ? The 100-hour annasaw programme launched by the four students? organisations namely Nikhil Bodo Students? Union, All Assam Students? Union, Assam Gorkha Students Union and All Assam Co-ordination Committee of Students? Union concluded their fast on July 13. The students? unions launched ?annasaw? programme at Golaghat in order to fulfil their charter of demands like solution of the Assam-Nagaland border problems, distribution of land pattas to the local people etc.

Meanwhile, several students activists fell ill due to fasting. The sufferers are Amardeep Orang, Puspa...

GUWAHATI, July 17: Floods have taken a serious toll of the National Parks and Wild Life sanctuaries of Assam and it will take quite some time to restore the infrastructure damaged in the current wave of floods. Talking to The Assam Tribune, the Minister of State for Forest, Pradyut Bordoloi said that floods caused severe damage to the infrastructure of the National Parks and Wild Life sanctuaries of the State and according to a conservative estimate, an amount of about two crore of Rupees would be required to restore the same. He said that the camps of the Forest Department personnel inside...

GUWAHATI,July 17 ? A high-level delegation of Myanmar is arriving in the State soon to initiate discussion on import of diesel from the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL). Myanmar is keen to buy diesel from the NRL in order to reduce its transportation cost. Talking to this correspondent, LS Kumar, adviser (marketing) of NRL said that the delegation would come to carry forward its deal with the company. ? Their requirement is one thousand metric tonne (1TMT) per month and we are ready to meet their requirement?, Kumar said over telephone from New Delhi.

With the increasing production in the...