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Vice-President Krishan Kant led the nation in recalling the heroic deeds of Ahom\\'s Army General Lachit Barphukan, who repulsed the Mughal attacks, must be given his place of pride as a national hero.

We know our people, culture, it’s rich heritage, and different community or tribes which all are part of Assam (our Mati). They may be Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddha, or others. All they have their own identity, faith, respect, and culture. They all are son of this soil (Assam). But, in our school or collage books, there is hardly mansion about culture, civilization, history, and people. Hay, I am not talking about the Assam education board or syllabus under seba. I am talking about the cbse or other states of school or collage education syllabus.

Unlike most students, those from Jnana Prabodhini are heading for the less explored, less known north-eastern states and it\\'s not just a pleasure trip.

The 120 girls and 75 boys will go in five batches to Meghalaya, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Tripura will be Stopovers.

The evening started off with a beautiful traditional Bihu dance performance by Rashmi Borbora followed by a welcome speech by the secretary, Prodip Bora, who took the responsibility of organising the function this year. The cultural programme was formally inaugurated with lighting of ‘saki’ by Ria Das and Debi Sarma turning up in traditional Assamese attire. Rishi Barkakati, who organised the cultural programmes and conducted the show, entertained everybody with his humorous ways and with his own magic show.

We have been reported that the government of Bangladesh is planning to
settle 65 thousand Bengalees in Sajek Union under Rangamati district.
For the last few days military officials have been frequenting to the
area. Rangamati Brigade Commander will visit Sajek in a few days.
Soldiers are now clearing jungles for a temporary helipad to enable a military
copter to drop the Brigade commander.

For the last one and half years the military has been engaged in
constructing a road from Baghaihat to Sajek. It is believed that as soon as

“Do you think government servants will do that?”

The court directed all the states government to frame rules that would make it mandatory for men seeking government employment to furnish information on whether or not they have taken dowry.

Aronoday honorary President Lt Gen (retd) D. B. Shekatkar, who served in various states of the North-East for 30 years, said, “The motive is to bridge the information gap between the other parts of the country and the region.

IIT Guwahati, ranked 3rd on objective assessment is at 21st position on recruiters’ perception. "This new IIT is yet to establish its brand image among the recruiters, as compared to its elder brothers. However, they are doing a better job in putting their houses in order," IDC India Head (User and Communication Research) Parijat Chakraborty said.

Content
Preface
1.Introduction/Making of an Imperial Forest Policy/Forest History in Assam/Pre-colonial Forestry in Assam/The Book: its story
2.Early Days: Mapping Forests And Bringing Order/Exploring the Jungles/Talking about Conservation/Protecting the Forest: Experiment with Nambor/Mapping the Forest: The Beginning/Beginning of Commerce: The Early Days/ Survey under the Forest Department: 1868-1879/Schlich and His Memorandum on the Forest of Assam/The Final Moment: Memorandum of Brandis.

They survive in brothels, factories, guesthouses, dance bars, farms and even in the homes of well off Indians, with no control over their bodies and lives. Young girls are also being trafficked for illegal adoptions, organ transplants and the entertainment Industry.

Although cross – border trafficking of women, specially young girls who are coming from our neighboring countries like; Bangladesh or Nepal has been a problem in India for the last two decades. NGOs and Academic researchers say that there has been a phenomenal growth in inters – state trafficking in the last five years.

Cotton College of Guwahati swept the Higher Secondary (Science) results, 2005 as 13 students of the college occupied as many as nine of the first ten positions, barring the eighth position, which went jointly to BH College, Barpeta, Ramanuj Gupta Jr College, Cachar and Darrang College. According to the results declared by the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council today, of the 14,254 candidates who had appeared in the examination, 9,647 came out successful, the pass percentage being 67.68 against 66.79 last year.

Girls outshone boys in the Class 10 exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which on Thursday announced a 74.6 overall pass percentage - an increase of 2.38 percent over last year.

Out of the total of 605,477 students who wrote the examination from March 1-24 in India and abroad, girls had a pass percentage of 75.26 while 74.13 percent of boys passed.

One of the major reasons behind this has been the lack of support from industry. The IITs need to gain momentum to meet the challenges, which face the nation, said Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh, at the seventh convocation ceremony of IIT, Guwahati.