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PIX: World's Rhinos could soon be gone, gone forever
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 12 days ago
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The Baburnama famously records Emperor Babur hunting rhino in the Punjab plains It features on the Rs 10 note along with tiger and elephant The rhino is Assam's state animal "Kaziranga Sanctuary has 2,300 rhinos, Manas has 20, Pobitra has 80, while
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Assam tea planters gear up for Jorhat Races
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 3 months ago
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The event, started in the days of the British Raj, has been held for almost 140 years. Horses played a part in the tea gardens over 100 years ago, and initially, the races were run by horses on different estates...The unique races start Feb 18 this
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65% polling in 2nd phase of Assam Panchayat election
Guwāhāti :: India | 4 months ago
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An estimated 65 per cent of the electorate today cast their ballots on the second day of the three-phase Assam Panchayat election, which was marked by sporadic incidents of violence, officials said. Clashes between rival parties, attack on candidates
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Govt to deploy RRTs to deal with man-animal conflict
Mumbai :: India | 4 months ago
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Guwahati, January 28, 2013 Assam government has decided to constitute and deploy well-equipped Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) to deal with the increasing man-animal conflict. The RRTs would tackle man-animal conflict leading to casualties and losses on
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Three kids die, 2 hurt in Tinsukia explosion
Shanghai :: China | 5 months ago
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19 AM Sunset : 5:11 PM Today Morning mist/fog...Jorhat, Jan. 9: Three children were killed and a child and a woman were injured in an explosion at Kharjan under Digboi police station in Tinsukia district around 4.35 this evening.
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Mobile device for pregnant women in rural areas
Dibrugarh :: India | 5 months ago
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20 AM Sunset : 5:10 PM Today Mainly clear sky...Guwahati, Jan. 8: Childbirth can have its complications in Assam: How does a mother and her husband know where to go from the sandbar they live on in the Brahmaputra to a hospital that offers free C-
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ST status plea for tea tribes
New Delhi :: India | 5 months ago
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A ruling Congress legislator today expressed fears that denying Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the tea tribe community in Assam may turn the tea garden areas of the state into breeding ground of Maoists. Chabua legislator Raju Sahu told reporters
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Jairam Ramesh lauds Assam for lowest inequality rate
Mumbai :: India | 6 months ago
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Lauding Assam for the lowest inequality rate in the country and high growth in literacy, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said despite its human development parameters, the state gets into the national limelight "only for wrong
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The ends of the line
New Delhi :: India | 6 months ago
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Okha in the state of Gujarat, 160 kilometres down the coast from Pakistan - and will soon be pulling into Ledo, the network's most easterly station, a tiny Assamese town of tea gardens and coal mines. We could have done the bulk of this journey on
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Of struggling through crises and savouring little triumphs
Chennai :: India | 7 months ago
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Two months ago, thousands of people from the Northeast working in the city, left for their hometowns in a mass exodus. Some were frightened by rumours of impending attacks on them, while many others left to be with their families in riot-ravaged
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