Archive for January, 2008

To boost the fight against Cancer, the Assam government has decided to treat cancer patients for free starting from March 1, 2008. Incidents of cancer in the North East is highest in India. Every year there are over 5,000 new cancer cases in Assam. And there is only one cancer ... Full story

The Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) has witnessed a record power generation level during the last week. The board, which was generating around 150 MW of energy on an average per day, is now generating around 123 MW of surplus energy since the last week. This could give a major boost to ... Full story

Today we have a nice Assamese video song from the VCD album 'Mukha', by famous Assamese singer Zubeen Garg. The title of this assamese song is 'Tumi Suwa Jetia' (meaning when you look). The audio track is originally from the album '... Full story

People of Assam celebrated the 59th Republic Day. The image shows Governor of Assam, Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh inspecting the guard of honour at the Republic Day parade at the Judge's field of Guwahati. Assam Information Portal Full story

A young Army Captain, who was honoured with the Sena Medal for gallantry on Republic Day yesterday, was killed in a fierce firefight with ULFA militants of Assam in Tinsukia district of Upper Assam today. In the encounter inside the Mechaki reserve forest, 27-year-old Captain S K Choudhary of the ... Full story

A 30 year old male One Horned Rhino of the Assam State Zoo died of suspected anthrax on Tuesday morning. According to the officials, some night guards of the zoo spotted the rhino collapsing, with blood oozing out of its nose and anus around 5.30 a.m. Later preliminary tests of ... Full story