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? Several Bodo and non-Bodo organisations under the banner of Coordination Committee for Bodoland Movement (CCBM) today called on the BJP national president, Jana Krishnamurthy urging him to prevail on the Central Government to expedite the creation of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). A delegation of the CCBM spearheaded by All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) is currently in the capital to press for solution of the Bodo problem.

A spokesman of the CCBM told this newspaper that the delegation comprising representatives of Bengali, Adivasi, Nepali, Muslim, Rajbongshi...

GUWAHATI, April 30 ? Regretting that Assam has not been getting its due share in forms of royalty on crude oil and natural gas, the all-party delegation of Assam Assembly led by Speaker Prithibi Majhi today submitted a memorandum to Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Ram Naik at New Delhi demanding fixation of royalty on crude oil on the basis of international market price. This was stated in an official release.

Stating that enhancement of royalty on crude oil on an adhoc basis has caused irreparable loss to the State Government which was already reeling under a financial crisis...

SHILLONG, April 30: With the Assembly elections in Meghalaya a little more than nine months away, the Congress today received shot in the arm bagging the Kharkutta seat in the district council bye-election the result of which was announced this evening. The win was all the more satisfying for the Congress as it is playing second fiddle to the Nationalist Congress Party in State politics since the last Assembly polls.