The Early Birds, an organization for animal care recently conducted a free veterinary vaccination cum treatment camp around the Pobitora Wild Life sanctuary on 27th and 28th Oct'07. Altogether 487 cattle were covered in the villages of Kholabhuyan, a fringe area. Medicines worth Rs five thousand were also freely distributed. Three veterinary final year students Sri Rupam Bhattacharya, Sri Anil Deka and Joy Prakash Sharma took part while two life members Sri Mukul Talukdar and Sri Pulakesh talukdar coordinated and liaised with the forest department. Early Birds eco-club members from Mayong also assisted the team. The D.F.O (WL) and the R.F.O , Pabitora offered field support . These vaccination camp was the 27th at Pobitora in last 14 years and 109th for all the Wild Life areas of Assam and Meghalaya covered by Early Birds.
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Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday admitted that Akhil Gogoi is a disturbing factor and that the ruling party would soon move the Election Commission against KMSS which have been campaigning...
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A Hill trekking competition was organized in connection with ongoing 5th Baukhungri festival at Harinaguri in Kokrajhar district on its second day along the Baukhungri Hill. Nearly 200 participants...
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Four boys were injured when group of students clashed in Morigaon on Saturday. The incident took place at a boys' hostel of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Morigaon Saturday night. According to police...
Border Security Force and its counterpart in Bangladesh discussed a slew of issues relating to the Indo-Bangla border Karimganj district on Monday.According to information on Tuesday, the Border Security Force was represented by DIG, Silchar sector, Mahipal Singh while the Bangladesh Rifles delegation was led by its Sylhet sector Commander C K Ubaidulla Hassan at the meeting held at Sutarkandi Trade Centre. The meting discussed decided all issues related to border management would be solved amiably through a meaningful negotiation.
Police have apprehended two car lifters in the city's Udalbakra area during an operation on Monday. During the interrogation, both the lifters are reportedly making some startling revelations than could help the police bust the racket. The lifters apprehended are namely Amar Das and Zakir Hussain.
Police have arrested three hardcore NDFB caders and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunitions during an operation in the city's Beltola area on Monday. According to information, acting on a tip off, conducted a raid in the area in Beltola and arrested three Bodo rebels namely Mark Narzary, Ajit Bodo, Binod Basumatary. Police further recovered three pen pistols, five 5.56 pistols, 2 M-20 pistol, 13 magazines with six rounds of ammunitions from their possession. Later these rebels have been handed over to the Police station for more investigation. It is for the first time police recovered pen pistol in the city.
Assam’s powerful student body All Assam Students Union has demanded Assam Accord implementation minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman’s resignation for his failure to keep his words in terms of the sealing of the porous Indo-Bangla border. Addressing a press conference on Monday, AASU leaders alleged that even after 22 years of signing of Assam Accord, the government has yet to implemented all the clauses of the Assam Accord..They said as per the tripartite meet held in 2005, the Centre had promised the AASU to seal the Bangladesh border within March, 2007 but the government has gone back to its words till March 31, 2008.The student leaders further announced a series of agitational...
One person was killed and another seriously injured by a wild elephant near Kaziranga National Park,official sources said to assamtimes.Buda Ganju, a resident of Dagaon which was seriously injured,said that the elephant tore down a treehouse where Tulsi Gogoi,the person was killed was sitting and trampled him to death after he fell from the tree.Buda Ganju, is undergoing treatment at the Golaghat civil hospital.The park authorities have paid Rs 5,000 ex gratia to Gogoi's next of kin. The authorities are also bearing the cost of Ganju's medical expenses.Bokakhat legislator MLA Jiten Gogoi said it was a common practice for the villagers residing near the park to perch on trees at night to...
Four people of a same family died in Sivasagar district when they consumed mushroom on Saturday. According to information, the incident took place at Jiamari Palengi gaon in Demow near Rajmai. They fell ill on Thursday last as soon as they consumed mushroom with brinjal, beans and potato with rice. They were rushed to hospital. On Saturday four people of the same family died at the hospital. They were Manik Gogoi, Hunmai Gogoi, Monju Gogoi and Sunmai Gogoi. Two more members of the family are struggling for life at hospital.In yet another incident of mushroom consumption, seven people are falling ill in Thaoradal near Rajmai in the same district. These people are Satrughna Majhi, Sanma...
Peace broker and MASS leader Lachit Bordoloi has been arrested under the National Security Act on Sunday accusing him of link with ULFA. Mr Bordoloi was detained in Moran in February following a set of confessional statements by ULFA cadre Manoj Tamuly. Later he was taken away by Nagaon, Rangia and Nalbari police in connection with a number of cases registered against him. According to what police have claimed a number of e-mails to ULFA sent from Bordoloi's laptop suggest his link with the terrorist outfit.
Five people died three others have been injured at a tragic accident at Dibrugarh district's Kutuha area on Sunday morning.According to information, the accident took place in Kutuha near Barbaruah when a Maturi Van bearing No AS506-F-3086 carrying eight people on its way to Moranhat had a head on collision with a Dibrugarh bound bus No AS-01 Q 2225.These five people died on the spot.The two injured people have been rushed to the Assam Medical College Hospital, Dibrugarh.The people left dead are Jesmine Begum, Priyara Khatun, Jahanara Begum, Julu begum and the driver Washim Hasan.
A two hour long powerful storm on Saturday midnight has left lakhs of houses ravaged in central and upper Assam district. According to information, a women died in Roha in Nagaon district when her house collapsed in the storm. Another woman also died in a similar incidents in Mangaldoi. Besides, lakhs of thousands in upper Assam district of Tinsukia, Dubrugarh, Jorhat, Golaghat, Sonitpur, Nagaon and Morigaon damaged by the strom that was shaking the state for nearly an hour. School building and some business establishments were also ravaged in the storm. The extent of losses and damages have yet ot be confirmed. The uprooted trees on the National Highways forced the buses, trucks and other...
Hundreds of teachers working with the of the state's non provincialised schools will block the National Highway and railway April 2 saying the government has yet to respond to their agitation.Addressing a press conference on Friday in the city, the united body of the teachers of these schools said altogether 16,153 non provincialised schools have been striking for government steps to provincialsation.They said the decision to this effect had been taken after the failure of the Thursday's Assembly gherao where many teachers were prevented from arriving Dispur. That's why they are going to block the National Highway and railway.
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