BY MANOJ ANAND
Guwahati

Sept. 1: After inundating hundreds of villages, the rising water of mighty Brahmaputra has submerged a large portion of Kaziranga National Park forcing a large number of endangered animals to flee from the park for safer high lands.

The director of the park S.N. Buragohain said: "More than half of Kaziranga National Park is now under water. The park animals have started migrating towards safer high lands."

The Brahmaputra and its tributaries have submerged about 1,200 villages while displacing more than 50,000 people in eight districts of Assam.

CM orders probe into breach of embankment
Staff Reporter & UNI
GUWAHATI, Sept 1: Floods continued to wrack havoc in Asom where the Puthimari river overtopped NH 31, the lifeline of the Northeast, snapping road communication.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, along with Water Resource Minister Bharat Chandra Narah and Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Bhubaneswar Kalita, visited Rangiya. Gogoi ordered an inquiry into the breach in the newly constructed embankment along the Puthimari river.

Dipak Gyawali, former Minister for Water Resources, heads Nepal Water Conservation Foundation and is hydropower expert.

Q: Why did the Koshi breach its embankment? Who was responsible for the repair work-- India or Nepal?

Authorities struggling to provide aid after devastating floods in Bihar said on Sunday they needed more boats and rescuers to help hundreds of thousands of people still marooned in remote villages.
Bad weather and heavy rain over the past few days have hampered rescue and relief operations in the worst-ever floods to hit Bihar state in 50 years, officials said.

Loss from Sidr: The economic loss caused by super cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, is more than us $ 4.4 billion, reveals a survey conducted by the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh. The cyclone completely destroyed about 4,10,000 hectares of farmland and damaged 12 lakh tonnes of the Aman paddy crop, which accounts for 40 per cent of the