TANGLA, July 20 ? People of Tangla areas were again affected by the fresh floods of Kulsi, Bhola and Nanoi river following continuous rains since the last couple of days. Kulsi river which flows from Bhutan changed its original course. The river Kulsi changed its direction and merged with the stream Huduma. Huduma is too small to accept the increased water flow inundated a vast area of Tangla.

Already five houses in Palahgarh village, nine houses in Chatiapar village, eight houses in Chenipara, have been eroded by Kulsi river. Several areas of Mangaldoi-Bhootiachang road, Tangla-Bhergaon road...

GUWAHATI, July 20 ? The Assam State Museum is in the midst of an acquisition programme to collect antiquities and cultural objects of Northeast India. The programme launched last year, has till now yielded about 562 objects of significant value. The Directorate of Museums had planned this programme with a grant it had received from the 11th Finance Commission. To utilise the fund for acquisition of objects, the museum made appeals through some newspapers, in response to which people from different parts of Assam and the rest of the Northeast have come forward to contribute various articles...

NEW DELHI, July 20 ? The Tsatichhu Lake in neighbouring Bhutan which was breached leading to devastating floods downstream in Assam was cleared by an expert team from India a month earlier in June. The Royal Government of Bhutan, however, has denied that the worsening flood situation in Assam was due to breaching of the Tsatichhu Lake, about 30 km upstream of the Kurichhu Hydro Power Project. The lake in question was breached around 3.30 pm on July 10. The Tsatichhu is a tributary of the Kurichhu river on which the Kurichhu Hydro Power Project is situated. The lake was formed by a massive...

NEW DELHI, July 20 ? A week after claiming that there was over 1.20 crore illegal Bangladeshis in India, the Union Home Ministry has contended that infiltration of illegal migrants from Bangladesh has slightly decreased. Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Sriprakash Jaiswal said this on the basis of the number of Bangladeshi national apprehended by Border Security Force (BSF) during the past three year. According to the figures made available in the Lok Sabha in reply to a question, he said that during the year till June 20, 12,476 Bangladeshi nationals were nabbed by BSF. Last year, BSF...

GUWAHATI, July 20 ? The overall flood situation in the State remains grim and the death toll ? including those killed in landslides ? has gone up to 88, while nearly 600 animals of Kaziranga, Manas and Orang National Parks have been drowned. According to the memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by the State Government today, the current wave of floods has affected more than 88.75 lakh people, of whom 16.44 lakh are still living in relief camps. Floodwaters have breached embankments in as many as 109 places and more than 3.13 lakh houses have been completely damaged. Altogether...