After several delays, it will be completed by Jan 2017.
Over 40,000 people in 120 villages in Dhemaji were marooned in the wake of a breach in the embankment of the Kumotia river, a major tributary of the Brahmaputra.
The blast triggered angry protests in the area and in nearby Fancy Bazar, the commercial hub of the N-E region.
Following the three waves of devastating floods that hit Assam this year, the tea industry of the state is in tears.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone of the Rs 5460.61 crore (Rs 54.6 billion) Assam Gas Cracker project on Monday, now known as Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd.
The situation in three Barak Valley districts -- Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj -- was critical with river Barak and its tributaries creating havoc, inundating roads and disrupting communication.
In a case of fratricide, a Border Security Force trooper allegedly killed two officers and injured another at a remote border post in Assam's Dhubri district before shooting himself on Thursday.
The Sikhs love a good fight, and that's what the Modi government has given them.
Officials of the labour department said that the migrant workers mostly belong to the poorest sections of Dalits and backward castes and had migrated to earn a livelihood.
The undocking was preceded by a minor incident, involving the ship's listing by around 8 degrees, during flooding of the dry dock,
The explosion took place at a construction material dump in the Pan Bazar area when the four passersby, including a woman, were injured around 11.45 am, the sources said.
Prime Minister on Friday said his government has unshackled several stalled projects across the country.
A recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
The 36th commission meeting had 7 points on its agenda, including the sharing of the Teesta river.
The Congress leader said he had warned the people of Assam before the Assembly elections in 2016 that hard earned peace would be hampered if the BJP came to power.
Violent agitations continued to rock parts of West Bengal for second consecutive day on Saturday as people protesting against the amended Citizenship Act set several buses on fire and torched portions of a railway station complex, officials said.
"You are supposed to maintain it. Something must have gone wrong in that," Parrikar said.
Assam has suffered huge losses in terms of lives, property, cropped land, dwellings and infrastructure in three waves of flood that have hit the state so far this year. Last week's deluge wreaked havoc in Kamrup and Goalpara claiming 67 lives and leaving behind a trail of destruction.
New Delhi also agreed to undertake, a joint inspection with Bangladesh, on the problem of erosion and drainage of Ichhamati river in West Bengal.
During President Jinping's visit, China committed $20 billion investment over the next five years
A heavy downpour in the hills of Arunachal Pradesh and catchment areas of the Brahmaputra has led to flooding in large areas in Upper Assam.
'The logical step is to challenge the very legitimacy of the Chinese claim over Tibet,' recommends Inspector General Gurdip Singh Uban (retd).
'This is the only place on earth where Elephas maximus climbs to these heights.'
The situation in Karimganj, Cachar, Morigaon, Nagaon and Dhubri remains grim with the rivers still flowing above the danger level, sources said in Guwahati.
Eighteen people drowned in a boat capsize in the Kiling river in Morigaon district on Sunday evening. Another person drowned in Karimganj.
Lohit district in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh has also been affected.
In one of the worst ever floods in the state, 25 of the 27 districts remained inundated.
Opposing the Central government's proposal of allowing Bangladeshis visa-free entry into Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said he couldn't allow it, as the state was already facing a problem of illegal migration.
A 12-hour Assam bandh called on Friday by the BJP, to protest the introduction of a Constitutional Amendment Bill to facilitate swapping of land enclaves with Bangladesh, evoked mixed response.
Muslims across the country have joined the agitation, apprehending that the move could be a precursor to a country-wide NRC.
Three of them drowned in the Brahmaputra river in Tinsukia district after they were thrown in with their hands and feet bound.
'It is pure luck that we did not have any body bags, otherwise things could have been nasty.'
Students' organisations and political parties are participating in the bandh to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they faced religious persecution there.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
