JORHAT, Feb 21— Pitchforked into international reckoning for its unique cultural repository, and presently vying for securing World Heritage Site status under UNESCO, a two-member team of researchers from the British Library’s National Sound Archive (NSA) have just about completed collecting, recording and documenting the variegated music and dance styles prevalent in Majuli river island within Jorhat district. Part of a 17-month project, sound recordist and music researcher Rolf Killius along with associate Ms Jutta Winkler recorded the complex music and dance styles in 12 digital audio-tapes...

KUMARIKATA (Nalbari), Feb 21 — Worried over dilapidated condition of roads in the State, the Centre has decided to handover the National Highway (NH) 52 to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO). Addressing a press conference here today the Director General of the BRO, Lt Gen Prakash Suri said that the BRO has got a proposal on NH 52 and it is waiting for ‘go ahead signal’ from the authorities concerned. The BRO has been carrying out several projects in Nalbari, Kamrup and Barpeta districts under Prime Minister Special Package scheme. In this context, Lt Gen Suri said that the BRO has been...

GUWAHATI, Feb 21 — State Government is not in a hurry to demarcate the boundary of proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) despite the pressure from struggling Bodo groups including BLT and its allies ABSU and BPAC. Sources informed that in view of the stiff opposition voiced by non-Bodo groups including Koch-Rajbongshis and Adivasis living in Bodo heartland, the State Government would now try its best to evolve a consensus about the boundary of the BTC in order to find a lasting solution to the Bodo problem.

Moreover, the State Government is sensing trouble as other tribal groups...

SHILLONG, Feb 21 – Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman, North East Space Application Centre (NE-SAC), Dr K Kasturirangan is of the view that the Centre would play a vital role of integrating space technology with the overall development of the region. He was addressing the second governing council meeting of the NE-SAC at Hotel Pine Wood here on February 19, NEC sources said.

The Centre has so far set up a ‘state-of-the-art’ remote sensing and GIS laboratories and mobile communication facilities to face any event of disaster. Dr PS Roy, Dean, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing...

IMPHAL, Feb 22 — Four security personnel including an Army captain on poll duty in Manipur were killed when militants ambushed a security party at Yairipok are ain Thoubal district, official sources said on Thursday. The Assam Rifles personnel who were patrolling the area for smooth movement of polling personnel to interior polling stations in hill districts were attacked on Wednesday evening by ultras using rocket launchers from nearby hilltops. Three Assam Rifles men and an Army captain were killed on the spot. Though Assam Rifles is a paramilitary force, its officers are deployed from the...