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Alert sounded in north-eastern states for cyclone 'Mahasen'

An alert has been sounded across Assam as cyclone 'Mahasen' is likely to hit the north-eastern states on Thursday night, officials have said. All boats and ferry services on Brahmaputra have been......

Gogoi asks DGP to beef up security after grenade blast

Even as public protests are rife against outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom in eastern Assam district of Tinsukia over deaths of three innocent children in a freak grenade explosion on the......

5.1 earthquake shakes north-east India

A earthquake of moderate intensity measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale shook Assam and other parts of the north-eastern region in the small hours on Wednesday, officials said.The epicentre of the......

Hy'bad police persuade several Assamese from leaving city

After three days of panic and frenzy, during which hundreds of people from Assam and other north-eastern states left Hyderabad city, Andhra Pradesh government seems to have succeeded in turning the......

Assam boy wasn't pushed from train in AP: Rly police

At a time when tension was already high among the North Eastern people in different parts of the country and rumours were triggering their exodus, a statement by the All India Assam Students Union......

Money-pooling scam: SFIO to start probe

The SFIO probe ordered by the government into illegal money-pooling activities of various entities would initially focus on 57 companies, most of which are in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Assam.......

Bengal, N-E hot-bed of investment frauds: report

A large number of NRIs having origins in these states are understood to have been defrauded by many such companies, including the Saradha group. Amid a raging controversy over alleged......

OilMin allows RIL,Cairn to explore further

In his first major decision, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily has allowed Reliance Industries and Cairn India to explore for oil and gas within the producing fields subject to certain conditions.The......

2012: Another annus horribilis, like the one before

Despite what the World Bank and IMF trained gnomes in North Block, South Block and Yojana Bhavan say, the numbers of the poor is rising alarmingly, says Mohan Guruswamy.A year ago, at about this......

OilMin to seek legal opinion on RIL, Cairn pleas

The Oil Ministry may seek the opinion of Solicitor General for India on whether Reliance Industries and Cairn India can be permitted to drill exploration wells in already producing oil and gas......

'Being Assamese, I was asked for my passport'

Director Jahnu Barua -- who made the award-winning 2005 film Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Maara -- gets candid during an award ceremony in Pune. Devidas Deshpande reports. Even as he received an award......

Malhotra re-elected Archery Association head

Vijay Kumar Malhotra was re-elected as President of the Archery Association of India after comprehensively beating Assam unit vice-president BVP Rao in controversy-marred elections, which took......

AAI election: Rao braces up to take on Malhotra

With the much-awaited elections to the Archery Association of India (AAI)drawing closer, the national convenor of Clean Sports India B V P Rao, who will be challenging incumbent president V K......

People speak for eastern assam

QNA

Q. what is the progress of programme of river water linking process? cost effective but need of the hour... see floods in Assam
BABASAHEB ANDHARE: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-is-the-progress-of-programme-of-river-water-linking-pro/24121052/answers/

Q. Some people feel that native Indian look down upon people ffrom border areas as Ladakh, Aruncahcl, Sikkim, Manipur, Nagaland, North Eastern parts of Himachal, and Assam to some extent. Why do they feel looked down?
Chanakya: A. The Indian Rivers Inter-link is a large-scale civil engineering project that aims to join the majority of India's rivers by canals and so reduce...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/some-people-feel-that-native-indian-look-down-upon-people-ff/23250812/answers/24121113

Web results for Eastern Assam

'Govt can earn Rs 25k cr by exports of wheat lying in open'

The government-owned Food Corporation of India (FCI) can earn over Rs 25,000 crore through exports of about 17 million tonnes (mt) wheat lying in... ...

http://smetimes.tradeindia.com/smetimes/news/top-stories/2013/May/20/govt-can-earn-rs-25k-cr-by-exports-of-17-mt-wheat-in-open629335.html

Hilly states face logictics issues for buying PDS sugar

North Eastern and hilly states, including Jammu & Kashmir, have expressed concerns over logistics for undertaking sugar procurement from the open... ...

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/hilly-states-face-logictics-issues-for-buying-pds-sugar/article4733047.ece

Landlessness in Assam a growing menace

prasenjit biswasWHEN the number of flood- and dam-affected and otherwise displaced people in Assam is growing at a menacing pace, one hopes to see... ...

http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=457139&catid=52

Eventful incidents in the region

patricia mukhimWHILE the rest of India is engaged in more weighty issues about China's incursion deep into Indian territory in the Depsang area... ...

http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=457140&catid=52

China deploys Su-27 fighters in Tibet, can target key Indian air bases

New Delhi: China's all-weather fighter base in Tibet is now widening its range of options in the event of a conflict with India. Intelligence... ...

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/china-deploys-su27-fighters-in-tibet-can-target-key-indian-air-bases/392790-3.html

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