Correspondent

CORRESPONDENT
BARPETA, Jan 13

The Brihattar Pub Barpeta Brahmaputra Garakhahaniya Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has threatened to block the Barpeta-Chenga- Daulashal road for 1,000 hours from January 5 and lock all government institutions in the East Barpeta area to protest the apathy of the government towards the grave problem of erosion in their area by the mighty Brahmaputra.

GUWAHATI, Dec 19: Although culling operations are over in various parts of the state, Asom is concentrating on reducing bird flu infection risk in humans as cases of its relapse have been reported.
Such cases had been reported from Barpeta district where culling operations formally got over, official sources said today.

GUWAHATI, Dec 9

BARPETA

The avian flu virus has now been detected in the diseased poultry populations in pockets of Barpeta and Nalbari districts too. Earlier, the virus was detected among the diseased poultry populations in three pockets of Kamrup and Kamrup (Metro) districts.

BARPETA

BARPETA, Sept 3: As a result of continuous rainfall during the last 10 days, the flood situation in Barpeta district remains grim. With Brahmaputra and its major tributaries flowing above the danger level the flood situation in the district continued to assume dangerous propositions.
According to the Water Resource Department sources of Barpeta the water level of Brahmaputra has risen to 42.50 meter which has exceeded the danger level by 1.20 meter and the level has been showing a risen trend continuously.

BARPETA, Sept 2

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