India will get vital flood season data from China for five years as part of a bilateral understanding, which will improve forecast and timely warning in the downstream of the mighty Brahmaputra river. The data will be provided from 2008 to 2012 under a memorandum of understanding signed with Beijing in June this year during the visit of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to the Communist country.
The proposed North East Water Resources Agency would result in the reduction of the region's share of the resource, Bharatiya Janata Party National Secretary Khiren Rijiju said. The reported attempt to club North Bengal and form a new agency in place of the existing Brahmaputra Board indicated that the central government was anti-Northeast, he said.
'The numbers of troops on both sides are enormous.' 'They are about 50,000-60,000 soldiers facing each other in that sector -- that's about the total number of troops that both sides had in the 1962 War in all sectors.'
The water level was above the danger mark at Dibrugarh and Jorhat in Upper Assam, river Katakhal at Matizuri Point in Hailakandi and Kushiyara at Karimganj in Barak Valley.
The worst-affected area is the world's largest inhabited river island, Majuli. Ninety-five per cent landmass of the river island, having an approximate area of 450 square km, is now under flood waters of Brahmaputra and its tributary Subansiri.
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Official reports reaching Guwahati said the Brahmaputra and almost all its tributaries were flowing above the danger level, forcing people living in low-lying areas in lower and upper Assam to move to higher ground.
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.
After several delays, it will be completed by Jan 2017.
'People feel concerned about the future, whether it is the land or the jobs.' 'The BJP came to power in Assam with promises of maati, bheti (home, hearth and identity), land, jobs and culture.' 'Are these going to taken care of? I think those are real concerns.' 'The Assam chief minister (Sarbananda Sonowal) was one of the leaders of the All Assam Students Union which fought for and is one of the signatories to the Assam Accord.' 'Today, his comrade-in-arms (Samujjal Bhattacharya, chief advisor, AASU) is leading the opposition in the streets.'
It was for the first time that the missile, capable of travelling at speeds of up to Mach 3.0, or three times the speed of sound, was tested with indigenously developed 'seeker' technology.
The brigade that conducted the drills was from the PLA's Tibet Military Command and is one of China's two plateau mountain brigades.
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.
'The missile mounted near Kailash-Mansarovar is called DF-21. It is a medium-range, 2,200 kilometres ballistic missile. Its advantage is that it can cover all cities of north India, including New Delhi'
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.
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.
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The undocking was preceded by a minor incident, involving the ship's listing by around 8 degrees, during flooding of the dry dock,
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New Delhi also agreed to undertake, a joint inspection with Bangladesh, on the problem of erosion and drainage of Ichhamati river in West Bengal.
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.
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.
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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.
"You are supposed to maintain it. Something must have gone wrong in that," Parrikar said.
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.
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