GUWAHATI, Feb 21 – Tea industry has called upon the Assam Government to reduce the land revenue rates and cess on green leaf. The industry has also requested the Government to waive the interests and penalties on the outstanding dues. In a memorandum to the State Government, the Tea Association of India (TAI) said that the land revenue rates in Assam were the highest among all the tea producing states of the country and it should be brought down to a reasonable level. At present, the land revenue rate in the Brahmaputra valley is Rs 22 per bigha and it is Rs 16 in the Barak valley.

A late-night crackdown by the police and paramilitary forces on anti-mega dam protesters in Lakhimpur district triggered raging protests at several places in Assam on Monday.

The police arrested more than 200 protesters, who since December 16 had been blocking vehicles transporting equipment and construction materials, through National Highway 52, for the NHPC's 2,000-MW Lower Subonsiri hydroelectric project at Gerukamukh in Arunachal Pradesh.

Leading ecologists, wildlife biologists, conservation experts and research scholars of the country on Thursday came up with a number of workable strategies to meet conservation challenges in the northeast at the conclusion of the three-day Young Ecologists Talk and Interact (YETI), 2011, held at the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati.

Dibrugarh: The Namrup Regional Students Union (NRSU) protested against the setting up of hydro electrical power station at Joypore Rain Forest in Dibrugarh District by a private company. According to the student organization, it would destroy the rich flora and fauna of the region as well cause imbalance in the unique bio-diversity of the 18,492 hectare Joypore and Dehing Rain Forests.

Guwahati, March 27: Tea crop loss because of pest attack has taken a toll this year on the inland container depot at Amingaon

Jorhat has become the latest district in Assam to face the flood fury with nearly one lakh people being affected in the last two days, officials said today.

Lakhimpur in Brahmaputra valley and Cachar and Karimganj in Barak valley have been already hit by floods.

A CAMPAIGN is slowly building up in Assam against the construction of large dams on rivers in Arunachal Pradesh, with experts as well as intellectuals fearing that these dams will have serious implications in the Brahmaputra valley.