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Kashmiri apples to be exported to Middle East
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Kashmiri apples to be exported to Middle East

NEW DELHI, Oct 20: The famed Kashmiri apples are being exported to the Middle East market.The LuLu Group, which runs more than 180 hypermarkets and shopping malls across the Middle East, shipped 10 containers (200 tonnes) of three apple varieties on Saturday, a company spokesperson said.This...
Pakistani shelling leaves civilian injured in Kathua
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Pakistani shelling leaves civilian injured in Kathua

JAMMU, Oct 20: A civilian was injured on Sunday as Pakistani Rangers shelled mortars along the International Border (IB) in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.The intermittent firing and shelling from across the border overnight was aimed at stalling some construction work in...
Planters� rebuff of Oxfam report flayed
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Planters� rebuff of Oxfam report flayed

TEZPUR, Oct 18 - The Joint Action Committee for Tea Workers Wage (JACTWW), has strongly condemned the rebuff of the planters associations of the report published by Oxfam on October 11 last that highlighted the shocking scale of human suffering of the workers that produce tea in the plantations of...
BJP, Cong pin hopes on victory
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BJP, Cong pin hopes on victory

SILCHAR, Oct 18 - With only a day left for campaigning for by-election in Ratabari LAC under Karimganj district, parties and candidates in the fray are leaving no stone unturned to woo the voters. The Karimganj district administration has taken elaborate measures to conduct the bypoll on October 21...
Childline tracks traffickers, rescue newborn baby girl
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Childline tracks traffickers, rescue newborn baby girl

DIBRUGARH, Oct 18 - In one of the most successful operations, Childline volunteers of Tinsukia and Dibrugarh district tracked down alleged traffickers and rescued a newborn girl child from a village here in the district on Wednesday. The baby was reportedly sold in front of LGB Civil Hospital,...
Sivasagar dist admn prepares tourism road map
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Sivasagar dist admn prepares tourism road map

SIVASAGAR, Oct 18 - In a bid to give a fillip to the district�s tourism sector, the DC, Sivasagar, Dr MS Lakshmi Priya has prepared a comprehensive tourism road map.With a vision and a mission to bring the historically, architecturally, mythologically and culturally rich and vibrant district to a...
ITA refutes Oxfam report findings
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ITA refutes Oxfam report findings

The in-kind wages paid by the tea industry in Assam to its workers is legal as per the country�s Minimum Wages Act. Even the International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions have also endorsed such in-kind wages, claimed the Indian Tea Association (ITA), the largest of the country�s tea...
Raktim Das of Sualkuchi selected for Kalam IGNITE award
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Raktim Das of Sualkuchi selected for Kalam IGNITE award

SUALKUCHI, Oct 18 - Raktim Das, a class X student of Dadara Sankardev Shishu Niketan under Dadara police outpost of Kamrup district was selected as one of the awardees of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Competition 2019. Raktim Das who participated in the competition along with 60,000 competitors from 544...
Balajan police oupost needs upgradation
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Balajan police oupost needs upgradation

GAURIPUR, Oct 18 - Balajan Police Outpost under Gauripur Police Station in the district of Dhubri was formally inaugurated on December 23, 2011 by Sunil Dutta, the then Deputy Commissioner, Dhubri in the presence of Pradip Kumar Saloi, SP, Dhubri and a host of local leading citizens and general...
ACIL gardens to apply new agri technologies to revive tea industry
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ACIL gardens to apply new agri technologies to revive tea industry

DIBRUGARH, Oct 18 - In an effort to rehabilitate and reinvigorate the stress-gripped tea industry in the country, BRS Ventures, the company which recently took over the ownership of 15 tea estates of the country�s oldest tea company � Assam Company India Limited (ACIL) today showcased new agri...
Silpukhuri karatekas shine
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Silpukhuri karatekas shine

GUWAHATI, Oct 18 - Karatekas of Silpukhuri Karate Do Academy here won 20 medals in the recently concluded UKAA�s 8th Lower Assam Inter District Karate Do Championship at the Ganesh Mandir Indoor Stadium in Khanapara here.All the medal winners are selected for the UKAA�s State championship to be held...
Sportspersons feted
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Sportspersons feted

GUWAHATI, Oct 18 - City based Bir Chilarai Sports Club felicitated 35 sportspersons including organisers, coaches and scribes among others on the occasion of the 119th birth anniversary of Singhapurush Radha Govinda Baruah in a function held at the RG Baruah Sports Complex here yesterday.The...
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