NEW DELHI, April 11: The Assam Congress party is all set to make corruption its central plank in the forthcoming Assembly election by high-lighting the Tehelka tapes and corruption charges against the AGP government to attack the AGP-BJP alliance. "By joining hands with the AGP, BJP has made its intentions very clear to the people of Assam that it wants to perpetuate the destructive and loot raj of Chief Minister, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta at any cost, alleged the APCC president, Tarun Gogoi at a press conference at the AICC head office here today. AICC general secretary in charge for Northeast...

GUWAHATI, April 11: A clear picture of the proposed Peoples' Front in the lines of the Lok Manch in the national level is yet to emerge. However, it is almost clear that the Left parties - CPI and the CPM will fight the ensuing polls together. Both the CPI and CPM came out of the AGP-led four party alliance after the AGP went for an electoral understanding with the BJP and now efforts are on by the Left parties to form a Peoples' Front with other like minded parties. The acting secretary of the state unit of the CPI, Bhogeswar Dutta today said that the Peoples' Front would fight both the AGP...

GUWAHATI, April 11: The Assam BJP had its roots shaken with reports of largescale resignations from across the state, triggered by widespread resentment over its tie-up with the Asom Gana Parishad. State BJP president Rajen Gohain - who had opposed the fledgling alliance - tried hard to prevent the party edifice from crumbling as unit after unit in various districts resigned en masse. Gohain himself threatened to quit but kept his cards close to his chest till late tonight. However, firebrand party leader Hiranya Bhattacharyya stormed out of the party along with a large section of workers at a...

GUWAHATI, April 10: The spread of grassland in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) is under threat from an invading weed called Mimosa which has bloomed over 120 hectares areas inside the national park at the cost of the green grass, life to hundreds of herbivorous park inmates. The Assistant Conservator of Forest in the National Park, Utpol Bora today informed that the concentration of the unwanted wild herb is more in Kaziranga and Bagori ranges of the Park, than in other parts. However, it is threatening to cover all parts of the Park in near future. When Mimosa grows on a particular area, it...

IMPHAL, April 10: The fate of the rare Sangai (Cervus eldi eldi) at the Captive Breeding Centre at Meitei Langol which is the second home of the Brow Antlered Deer lies grim due to the illegal habitation by private individuals near the home. The area earmarked for the captive centre by the Manipur Zoological Garden inside the Langol Reserve Forest is 50 hectares while the exact habitat of the deer is 1.5 acre. The 50 ha area is meant for expansion of activities of the Iroisemba Zoological Garden and the Captive Breeding Centre. However, the human habitation springing up around the 1.5 acre...