The recent arrest of four porters, two on either side of the Indo-Bhutanese border, has raised speculation that despite no formal announcement of operations against camps of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) based in the neighbouring country being made, supply lines to the insurgent camps are being gradually throttled by security forces.

The colonial power encroached the most fertile, above flood level, land masses of Assam for the tea estates and imported a community very alien to the socio-cultural life of Assam for the up bringing of the industry. The colonial powers have been getting their hands on mammoth profit of the tea industry until the dawn of colonial era.

Figures of woe from the tea gardens of Assam

India is the world's largest tea producer; and Assam accounts for about 55 percent of the 840 million kg of the beverage produced globally last year.

Tea garden pickers make up for more than 95 per cent of the workforce in the industry spread over 2, 31,890 hectares in the state. Approximately 60 per cent of the tea garden workers are women

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In what could be his toughest test yet, Assam minister for transport Anjan Dutta has decided to take on Guwahati’s auto-rickshaw drivers, a dreaded lot as far as commuters are concerned, by introducing a pre-paid system in the city. The system, announced at a press conference and in the presence of the Guwahati Auto-Rickshaw Union, is to come into effect from October 20.

Government doctors refusing to report for duty in the various posts lying vacant in Assam have threatened to put in their papers should the government attempt to take disciplinary action against them. In response to the latest development, state Health Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman conceded that the government had failed to rein in the erring doctors. Barman had earlier said on the floor of the assembly that his ministry would take stringent action against the doctors who refused to report to their posts.

The United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF), a Kuki militant organisation, has asked the cooperative minister of the state, Abdul Salam, who they allege, is involved in a scam relating to the misappropriation of funds meant for the Integrated Cooperative Development Programme (ICDP), to “surrender” to the outfit. Efforts to contact the minister telephonically, however, failed.

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countrywide search began — offering two girls and two boys the chance to make their singing careers. Getting through to the finals of this mega event is no meanfeat. More so, if you belong to this part of the world, have stepped into your thirties and much married with a child. Mrinmoyee Goswami Sarma (MGS) did just that. We spoke to this charming lady at her beautifully kept Ambari residence.