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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A novel venture in commercial fish farming
Despite all the odds, two enterprising youths of the city took a novel venture so as to make Assam self-sufficient in fish production and thus to check the drainage of a major chunk of the resources
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Tea workers protest gastro deaths
Hundreds of tea workers from various parts of Assam under the banner of Asom sangrami Chah Shramik sangha today staged protest demonstration in front of Janata Bhawan in view of deaths of hundreds of
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Anti-smoking Bill in Meghalaya opposed
The tobacco lobby in the State is up against the Anti-smoking Bill introduced in the Meghalaya Assembly last week giving rise to apprehensions that the Bill may go up in
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High-level probe into gastro deaths demanded
The General Secretary of Asom Sangrami Chah Shramik Sangha (ASCSS), Sri Brij Pradhan today claimed that gastro-enteritis had so far claimed lives of over 400 tea workers in the State and demanded a
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316 sq km forests lost in NE in 2 years
The North-eastern States have lost over 300 sq. km. forest cover since 1995 even as a Supreme Court order banning felling of trees is in vogue in the region. A State Forest report (SFR) compiled by
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3,96,599 hit by floods
Following the let-up in the rainfall over the past 48 hours the overall flood situation in Assam has improved a little.According to an official release today, one person was reported killed, while
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AIDS case detected in Arunachal
Arunachal Pradesh - which was the only state in the North-eastern region to be free of the dreaded AIDS has finally caught up with rest of the region with the detection of one case in the State
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Kaziranga witnesses decline in poaching
Despite serious financial crisis things seems to be looking up for the Kaziranga National Park as the number of incidents of poaching of rhinos in the park has started declining in the last couple of
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WWF to finance tiger conservation in Nameri
The WWF has expressed its desire to finance tiger conservation works in Nameri Wild Life sanctuary, which is being upgradded into a National Park, and in the contiguous area in the Pukuy wild life
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Tiger population in NE shows steady decline
In an alarming development, tiger population in the North Eastern Region including Assam has shown a steady decine, while it has disappeared from States of Manipur and