Despite being riddled by unstoppable poaching incidents, the KazirangaNational Park gets a rare dose of good news.
There has been considerable increase in the rhino population in the world heritage site. During the last two years the rhino population figure has gone up to 2,400 which suggests increase of 71 one horn animal.
The park authorities released the figure n Saturday after the end of the two days census operation.
The figure was on expected line as the authorities earlier hoped that it figure be encouraging.
“We began the census operation on Thursday which concluded on Friday. It is an exercise by the authorities which is conducted after a gap of three years,” KNP officials told Assam Times.
In 2012, the national park had 2290 rhinos. The repeated incidents of poaching forced the state government to conduct a special census which also suggested rise in the rhino population. The figure stood at 2,329.
According to the census figure, Kaziranga has 1,651 adult rhinos along with 294 sub adults 251 and 205 calves.
The authorities divided the park into 81 blocks to conduct the two days census deploying 36 elephants involving over 200 forest officials, guards and NGO representatives.
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There are sustainable ways to use elephants,rhinos,and other large mammals to make money without killing them and/or destroying their habitat.GOOGLE this title for a solution being used(by a "paper" company) for the Asian Elephant and Indian Rhino-How to save rhinos? By turning their dung into paper. A possible solution I figured out is:The Real Large Mammal Medicine And Food-Cash CowsIt is not elephant tusks or rhino horn that have medicinal properties or miracle cures.However,there may actually be a real medicine as well as food source from rhinos and elephants and many other large herbivorous mammals in Africa like hippos,eland,cape buffalo,manatees and dugons-without killing them or destroying their habitat!It is their milk! One example was shown in “Durrell In Russia”about people in Russia raising eland for the milk and saying it was good for fighting diseases(I think the examples of diseases were yellow fever and tuberculoses).Therefore the milk from all mammals that are large enough to produce large amounts of milk should be milked for investigation of medicinal qualities like possible malaria immunity and help fight other tropical diseases that the animals in those areas are exposed to and are deadly to people.Of course the milk would probably be great for food products too and help make those animals benefit from high demand.Large herbivorous mammals in Asia could also benefit from high demand too by milking them for use for food products and medicinal properties.Some examples of food products made from and/or using milk are cheese,chocolate,cream,ice cream,mayonaise,butter et.The animals could be captured as mother and it’s young,milk the mother,then release them after milking.That should only be done with mothers that have young that are already eating solid food to avoid the young from not getting enough milk.That would not only make the animals “Cash Cows”without killing them,but also greatly encourage people to breed whatever animals they would be milking for the probable high price of wildlife milk to replace the high price of rhino horn and elephant tusk.Of course the milk used for food products should be tested for toxic plant residue since some animals may eat plants that are toxic to people.
Diganta Dutta from the Anjali Borbora Memorial Acedemy in Golaghat tops the higher secondary arts examination this year, the results of which has been announced on Friday.
Diganta is followed by Tulika Gogoi from Amguri College in Sivasagar district while the third position has gone to Jahnobi Borah from the Ramanujan Junior College in Nagaon while Barnali Saikai from the Birjhora Kanya College in Bongaigaon has secured the fourth position.
In the same stream, Luckymoni Baruah from North Lakhimpur College has secured fifth position.
The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council declared the results of the HS arts, science and commerce examination on Friday.
Altogether 23, 420 candidates cleared the examination out of 27,969 candidates in the science stream. The percentage of successful candidates stands at 85.33%.
In the arts stream 1,50,421 out of 2,3,513 candidates emerged successful. The percentage of successful candidates is 73.91%.
In the commerce stream, out of 16,420 candidates candidate 13, 564 have cleared the examination. The percentage of successful candidates is 82.70%.
A seven member delegation of ministers and MLAs is leaving for New Delhi on Friday to urge the party high command to retain Tarun Gogoi as chief minister.
Comprising Rockybul Hussain, Pradyut Boroloi, Anjan Dutta, Sushanta Borgohain, the delegation is set to meet Dr CP Joshi, Motilal Vhora and Dr Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday and Saturday.
Two days after listenng to the dissident camp, the three member panel set up to deal with the issue has summoned the pro-Gogoi camp to be listened to.
Unidentified gunmen shot deada former insurgent leader in Karbi Anglong district on Thursday forcing security forces to intensify operation to nab the miscreants.
The incident took place on Thursday night at Boithalangsu in the hills district.
Accordng to an eyewitness, the motorcycle born gunmen halted near a shop where UPDS deputy C-In-C Rupsingh Teron who was sitting.
Then they started firing at Teron from a point bank range and left the spot. Teron was killed on the spot.
Later policeman came and sent Teron’s body to his residence which is situated at a stone’s throw distance from the spot. Investigation is going on. KPLT and UPLA militants have been unleashing terror in the area...
Security forces are fanning in Bokajan area in Karbi Anglong district in search of 4 truckers 24 hours after they were kidnapped at gunpoint.
Top ranked police officials have been camping in Bojajan to monitor the rescue operation. Police have picked up three local youths in this connection. Interrogation is going on.
But sources have denied any role of militant outfits in the case where four Imphal bound truckers were taken away by a group of 4 miscreants from a petrol punp on Thursday wee hours.
The incident took place in the wee hours where four armed youths who came on a vehicle took away the truckers when they were waiting at a petrol pump in Bokajan. Then they were taken away...
After Sarbananda Sonowal, yet another top AASU leader is set to join BJP.
He is none other than Tapan Kumar Gogoi who is preparing to join the saffron party very soon. The AASU general secretary, who hails from Sivasagar district is keen to contest from Sivasagar in the 2016 assembly polls.
According to information, Gogoi has already received green signal from BJP president and Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal whom he helped in the recent Lok Sabha polls in Lakhimpur.
The AASU leader is not available for comment.
Advocate General Amrit Phukan has put in his papers on Thursday.
According to sources, the senior lawyer has sent his resignation letter to the authority which was accepted fortwith.
The government has confirmed that the resignation paper was accepted. The new advocate general would take over on Friday or Saturday./
The stage is set. Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is all set to announce the results of the HS examination on Friday.
The results would also be available on the net at 10 in the morning. Over 2,60,000 candidates appeared in the examination conducted in February this year.
Security forces claimed to have killed a hardcore NDFB-S militant at an encounter in Udaguri district on Thursday.
The encunter took place in the wee hours at Khoirabari area where the Bodo militant was attending a party.
Acting on a tip off Udalguri police and army jawans launched an combing operation in the area were the encounter erupted.
Identified as Bashiram Boro, the militant was critically injured in the 30 minute long gunfight. He was rushed to the hospital to be declared brought dead.
The incident took place hours after local villagers at Ghiladhari in Sonitpur district lynched two NDFB-S militants when they arrived in the village to extort money.
Two NDFB(S) militants were lynched by villagers in Sonitpur district on Wednesday.The incident took place at Ghiladhari in the evening where the three Bodo militants arrived in the village to extort money.
Villagers in lage number came out to the street and tried to capture the duo. When they tried to escape from the spot the villagers overpowered them to be lynched on the spot. Policemen arrived in the spot and recovered the bodies.
NDFB(S) militants have been unlashing terror in the entire area in the form of killing, kidnapping and extortion forcing the local residents to mercilessly deal with it.
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