The Tinsukia Police recently submitted a report to their counterparts in Uttaranchal, after investigating the antecedents of Indira Deori alias Jenny, the complainant in the case involving former Uttaranchal revenue minister Hirak Singh Rawat. Rawat had resigned after Jenny accused him of being the father of her newborn baby in Dehra Dun. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had subsequently filed charges of rape against the minister, leaving the ruling Congress red in the face.

During the Kargil war, their’s were perhaps some of the most heart-rending images: that of Capt Jintu Gogoi’s father, a former Indian Air Force officer, receiving the body of his 29-year-old son in full uniform; and Jintu’s young fiancee later saluting his pyre, bidding him farewell one last time. Jintu was posthumously awarded the Vir Chakra. However, that was then. As of now, Jintu is just another forgotten soldier whose family, for example, has still not been given the LPG distribution outlet that was allotted to them four years back.

“I have always told every person who has coached Baichung that his header is the strongest weapon in his arsenal,” says Karma P. Bhutia, superintending engineer at the state Transport Department, and Baichung’s mentor. And, it was a header in the 54th minute in East Bengal’s quarter finals clash against Indonesia’s second-best club, Persita Tangerang, that eventually took his club into the semis of the LG Asean Club Championship that East Bengal went on to win, in glorious style.

Chief Minister Okram Ibobi today escaped an attack by suspected militants of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the state’s Thoubal district, even as two security personnel were killed when the militants launched a second attack, this time on the police commando team that pursued the militants from the scene of the first incident. The chief minister was on his way back to Imphal after inspecting a dam site in the Salungpham area in the district.

This isn’t tourist time in Kaziranga, and the picture nowhere close to being as green as it is meant to be. It’s time to count the dead. With the water level receding in the past three days (that would be a moment’s respite before the second, third, fourth and fifth waves come in), the staff at the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) is gearing up to assess the extent of damage, so far: it includes, among others, 36 animals dead, and a completely destroyed network of roads.

Sir/Madam,

Today Assam is facing a critical situation because of floods. The Assam Association, Mumbai is collecting funds for medicines clothes and other basic needs for the flood affected people. I wish to appeal to all Assamese people of America to kindly donate cheques in the name of The Assam Association Mumbai as early as possible, all donations will be sent to NGOs who will be directly invloved with the relief activities.

The receipt will be sent by courier against the cheques.

Cheques may be sent to the following address:-

President

It is the sad story of a former student of Cotton College
who is eager to continue
her higher education in Chennai. She recently completed her 12th
class requirements from Cotton College. In Chennai, it is customary to produce a transfer certificate to obtain admission in any institute of higher study. This certificate simply contains the name of the student,

It ranges between an editor of a "national" daily wanting to see ULFA camps in Shillong in the early '90s, to Swami Dayanand Saraswati of Coimbatore saying a few months ago in Guwahati, in what seemed to be his perception of the Nagas' eating habits, that he had heard that their state didn't even have crows, to Union minister of state for home Swami Chinmayanand calling for Naga unity, in Arunachal, a few days back.

The state government has taken necessary steps in order to give a new lease of life to the Assam Syntex Limited (ASL), a spinning mill industry in the public sector situated at Nathkuchi near here and it has naturally created a jubiliant atmosphere in and around the area besides making its more than five hundred employees joyful. Unfortunately the industry remained closed for long nine years back.

And the list of such ‘employers’ is gradually increasingly, stretching between a much-hyped call centre set up by the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation (NEDFi), and the medical transcription centre of Hindustan Computers Limited (HCL) which left people without paying their salaries and basic facilities such as food and pick up.