Free insurance policies to students for dengue
Students of nine schools of Kamrup district received free insurance policy of Rs 20,000 for dengue under the collaboration of a social-based organisation Drishtee and CAFE India under the Behtar India
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Tipaimukh project to get Central clearance : Deb
The Centre is ready to give nod to the much awaited Tipaimukh Hydro Electric Project of North eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO), said Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public
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Kaziranga may become tiger reserve
Impressed with the track record of Kaziranga National Park in Assam in conservation measures, the Centre may declare it as a tiger reserve. A decision to that effect was taken in a meeting of field
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Cash reward to track poachers
In order to contain rampant poaching of primates in the North- East, Nature's Beckon has announced a reward scheme to give cash awards to informers which provides specific information about wildlife
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Concern over drastic fall in elephant population
Drastic fall in the population of elephants has become a cause of serious concern for the forest authority of Haltugaon division and nature lovers of Kokrajhar district in Assam. The Elephant Census
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Measures taken to augment fish production in Sonitpur district
In order to increase fish production in Biswanath Chariali district in Assam, the Sonitpur branch of the State Fishery Department has imposed restrictions on catching certain species of fish from May
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Tobacco can kill you in Manipur!
Chewing tobacco could mean certain death. Not from oral cancer, by the way, but at the hands of insurgents in Manipur. And more so if the tobacco pouches you happily empty into your mouth sport the
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Saving Majuli
The woes of Majuli, a prospective World Heritage Site, and its people, epitomise how callously we are used to treat our priceless heritage, unmindful of the fact that once it is lost, it is lost for
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Major earthquake may rock Barak valley by 2010 AD'
Noted geologist and the former Vice-Chancellor of West Bengal's Vidyasagar University, Prof Ananda Dev Mukherjee has axpressed the fear that a devastating earthquake may occur in Assam, particularly
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NE emerging high-risk zone for AIDS
Some signs of the HIV/AIDS scene in Assam and parts of the North East are deeply worrying. While high-risk persons continue to remain outside the ambit of a thorough awareness programme, their free
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Polio-free Assam likely by 2006
No case of polio has been detected in any part of Assam for last two years (2004 & 2005) and if the situation remains the same in the third year also, 2006 could bring the big announcement of