GUWAHATI, April 18 ? The US Fish and Wild Life Service, a leading organisation of United States (US), has decided to sanction $30,000 for conservation of elephants of the State. The funds have been sanctioned for the two project-Kaziranga National Park and Digboi area. The organisation has been extending financial assistance for conservation of wildlife which are facing extinction due to depletion of forest cover.

Highly-placed forest department sources today disclosed that they had submitted two projects to the organisation in view of growing depredation caused by the elephants and it agreed...

GUWAHATI, April 18 ? After a brief lull, fractional clashes between rival Bodo organisations started again as the Education Secretary of the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU), Sri Khwawamkhang Boro was shot dead by suspected National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) militants at Lontibari village under Patacharkuchi police station in Barpeta district this morning. The ABSU president, Sri Rabiram Narzary said that Sri Boro, aged about 32 years, went to Lontibari village to attend a Bihu function. At around 8.30 am today, a group of armed NDFB militants dragged Sri Boro from the Bihutoli and...

GUWAHATI, April 18 ? A family court here has issued summons to former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta to appear as a witness in connection with a divorce petition filed by an Assembly Secretariat employee, Sanghamitra Bharali, who claimed she had married Mahanta, reports PTI. The principal judge of the court last week also issued summons to Mahanta?s former ministerial colleague, SA Choudhury, and former MP, Keshav Mahanta, for a hearing on the divorce suit filed by Bharali against her husband, Monideep Das. Mahanta and his party colleagues have been asked to appear in the court on...

Imphal, April 18: The foundation stone for the planned Great June Uprising Memorial Complex was lad down at a simple ceremony today at the Kekrupat cremation grounds. The memorial complex is being set up through the initiative of the United Committee Manipur in memory of 18 martyrs who laid down their lives in the territorial integrity protection movement of June and July 2001. Leaders of various communities settled in Manipur participated in the foundation stone laying ceremony. Floral tributes were also paid in the name of the 18 martyrs, and two minutes? silence was observed in their memory...

Imphal, April 18: The lofty concept of Greater Nagaland conjured up by the NSCN (IM) is just a ?hollow dream? and will wither away with the passage of time, announced the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader KS Sudarshan during the Ekatmala Sammelan function held at Thangmeiband Athletic Union (THAU) ground today. Taking a dig at Christian missionaries Sudarshan claimed that before the advent of Christianity in Manipur all communities live together unitedly. Without mincing a word, he declared, ?It is only when the Nagas came into the fold of Christianity, they demanded independence from...