The Assam government has asked the CBI to probe the recent increase in rhino poaching in protected areas of the state.
Concerned over the recent frequent incidents of rhino poaching in Kaziranga National Park and other places in the state, the Assam government has moved the government to entrust the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe into a suspected conspiracy of certain forces with vested interests behind killing of the precious animal for its horn.
According to officials, the Union health ministry had received complaints about alleged corruption at the regional branches of the Red Cross Society in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, Karnataka and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
'The kind of situation we are seeing...we don't believe that this can happen in a settled democracy like India'
Assam is embracing organic farming in a big way with the help of central government.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday informed the media in Guwahati that in response to the request made by Dr Ram's son and wife, the state government decided to give its nod for a CBI probe into the incident.
A senior official of the Union water resources ministry said it was an unprecedented situation on the Chinese side where Tsangpo broke a 150-year record with swollen waters and hence China has shared the information with India.
Despite a go-ahead from the Centre, the state government will not resort to culling of the pigs immediately and will adopt an alternate mechanism to prevent the spread of the highly contagious disease, Assam Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Minister Atul Bora said at a press conference.
Mizoram's director general of police Anil Shukla held a high-level meeting on Sunday to assess the security arrangements, a statement said.
Militancy connected with jihad and north-east insurgency will be the focus of discussions when top ranking officials from state police and central police forces will meet in Guwahati on November 29 and 30.
Mudslinging and verbal attacks will definitely surge once the poll dates are announced, but as with any state, there are some crucial issues which will play a significant role in influencing voters in Assam too, says Devanik Saha.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil said he would accept a proposal from Telugu Desam Party's C Ramachandraiah for providing a special package to Andhra Pradesh.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday announced a cash reward of up to Rs 1 lakh to anyone who could provide credible information which could lead to identification or arrest of perpetrators of the Assam violence.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday reviewed the situation in Manipur with Chief Minister N Biren Singh and top officials, even as the Centre dispatched additional security forces and anti-riot vehicles to maintain peace there, sources said.
More than 750 constituencies spread across four states and one union territory will go to the polls on Tuesday
The rebel Congress leader said he expressed his desire to join BJP and work under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah. He also discussed Assam's political and flood situation.
Getting ready to fight the next assembly election in Assam in 2016 on the 'U-turns' on state issues made by the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the Centre, the ruling Congress government in Assam has brought out a handbook for its party workers highlighting the 'failures' of the Narendra Modi government to fulfil promises made to people of the state.
The Assam police and security forces have seized 344 illegal weapons from extremists from the troubled Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District Council areas in Assam from 2012 to July, 2014.
The Assam government has complied with the recommendations of the National Human Rights Commission and paid Rs 25 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of five men killed in an encounter on June, 2009 in the Dohikata Kadaldhowa reserve forest in a joint operation of the Assam police, the army and the Central Reserve Police Force, informed the NHRC office.
The scribe alleges that she was abused inside the police station.
The ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Monday sent a letter to the West Bengal State Election Commission (SEC) seeking details of the need for additional 485 companies of central forces, for which it has sent a requisition, an official said.
'Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh will have to treat these militias for what they are: Criminals armed with deadly weapons. Otherwise, nothing will distinguish the National Democratic Alliance government from the ten-year long perfidy of the UPA in Assam.'
Authorities of the National Hydro Power Corporation Limited have urged both the central and state government to resolve the relentless blockade of goods, fuels and machinery to its dam site at Gerukamukh along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border by anti-dam protestors in Assam. The NHPC officials have urged the governments to resolve the blockade to bring succour to the company staff and families living in the dam site as well as to help resume work on the project.
The All India Congress Committee has asked the party's ministers and legislators in Assam to declare their personal assets before Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.Veerappa Moily, the Congress leader in charge of Assam, told mediapersons that though there was no provision in the Constitution to make it mandatory for ministers and Members of Legislative Assembly to declare their assets, all party ministers and legislators in Assam would have to do so before Tarun Gogoi.
According to two separate notifications, the decisions have been taken after review of the law-and-order situation in both the states.
An indefinite curfew has been clamped in three upper Assam towns as violence against army and administration continued unabated, leaving at least six dead, 40 injured.
"The basic cause behind insurgency and Maoists activities or naxalism is frustration over lack of livelihood options. So we need to create jobs or source of income for youth in backward areas to prevent them from going astray. It is not true only in case of Assam but for the whole of the country," Gogoi said.
Singh instructed officials to try their best to restore peace in the border state as early as possible.
People from all walks of life in Assam on Friday remembered the victims of the serial blasts that had rocked the state on this day last year. However, prime accused in the serial blasts, the chairman of the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland Ranjan Daimary alias D R Nabla, is still absconding and suspected to be hiding in a foreign country.
The incident occurred at Kwakeithel Mayai Koibi under Lamphel police station a day after classes 1 to 8 began in the state after two months because of the violence.
Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee along with party leaders and workers sat on a dharna at the Rajghat in New Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on Monday demanding the release of funds for West Bengal by the Centre.
The Assam Rifles has a skeletal presence of women and the officials feel that they are not trained for a law-and-order situation.
Former Assam Director General of Police Shankar Barua, quizzed recently by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with Saradha scam, allegedly shot himself dead at his residence on Tuesday.
The tea industry's cup of woes brimmeth - scanty rainfall and pest attacks have dragged down production in May, prices are lower than last year, and demand from some export markets is muted. Production in North Bengal - comprising the Dooars, Terai, and Darjeeling - is majorly affected; parts of Assam are also hit. Arijit Raha, secretary general, Indian Tea Association (ITA), said that the Tea Board numbers for April show a crop loss of about 9 per cent for North Bengal, compared to last year.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Thursday said Union Home Minister Amit Shah has given firm assurances at a meeting held in Delhi of acting on his request for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the 'firing by Assam Police' along the states' border.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has cancelled all his programmes for the upcoming assembly elections in Karnataka in the wake of clashes reported in parts of Manipur, sources said.
A powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 on the richter scale and epicentred in Myanmar on Wednesday shook several parts of east and northeast India.
