GUWAHATI, July 16 ? The All Assam Students? Union (AASU) today demanded that Assam should be allowed to manage its resources like mineral oil and tea to mobilise the fund for solution of its flood problem. It also demanded that foreign flood experts should be engaged to study the State?s flood problem and to evolve a solution to the problem within a specified period. It warned that the people of Assam were not prepared to accept any Central Government attempt to equate the State?s flood problem with that of Bihar. Assam?s problem of flood is a unique one. It should be recognised as a national...

NEW DELHI, July 16 ? Responding to Assam Government?s SOS, the Centre today claimed to have come to its full rescue unveiling a series of measures undertaken to bail out the State Government. A team of four experts of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space armed with four INMARSAT satellites and eight Wireless in Local Loop (WLL) phones have been rushed to Guwahati to assist the State Government in establishing emergency communication links. The Union Government?s statement came after much criticism over its inaction on tackling the crisis in Assam and Bihar in the...

GUWAHATI, July 16 ? The overall flood situation remains grim even today in the State. Today was the twenty-third day of the second wave of the floods hitting the State. The current wave of floods has affected 88,26,851 people in 7,311 villages in the State?s 26 districts, said the official flood bulletin here this evening. The death toll has shot up to 49 today. Meanwhile, the Brahmaputra has posed a serious threat to the Palasbari-Chaygaon areas by eroding away about 300 metres of the Palasbari-Gumi dyke today. The Brahmaputra is flowing above the Danger Level (DL) at Dibrugarh (0.94 metres)...

New Delhi, July 15: Students who plan to come to the capital from the Northeast for higher education need no longer worry about finding affordable accommodation. The ministry for development of the northeastern region (Doner) has written to the Delhi government, seeking land to build hostels exclusively for students from the region.

Nearly 5,000 students from the eight northeastern states land up in Delhi every year for under-graduate, post-graduate and professional courses.

Doner minister P.R. Kyndiah said these new hostels would cater exclusively to students from the region, including Sikkim...

Agartala, July 15: A tribal youth, suspected to be a collaborator of the National Liberation Front of Tripura, was shot dead by militants of a rival outfit today. Two hardcore militants of the All Tripura Tiger Force gunned down 27-year-old Biswarai Debbarma this morning in Mandai village under Jirania police station of Tripura?s Sadar (East) subdivision.

Police sources said two armed motorcycle-borne Tiger Force militants arrived near a tea-stall in the Old Mandai market at 10 am and asked for Debbarma. When the youth came out, the rebels seated on the bike shot him dead from point blank...