GUWAHATI, Feb 21 – Tea industry has called upon the Assam Government to reduce the land revenue rates and cess on green leaf.

Burdwan district, with its advantageous position in transportation network and good resource endowments, spontaneously responded to the commercialisation of agriculture. Rice received considerable commercial importance in the second half of the nineteenth century. It found access to new markets within and outside Bengal and consequently rice trade flourished. Rice trade was carried on regularly in an organised way in Burdwan and expanded considerably from the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

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.

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 no

Unlike the rest of the subcontinent, Assam retained many elements of its tribal economy well into the 19th century. With the British invasion the picture began to change gradually. Opening up of the Brahmaputra Valley in 1826 brought about two major changes in the mode of surplus extraction. One, colonial capital flowed into tea plantations, along with indentured labourers from mainland India. Though immensely profitable for the planters, this had a limited impact on the larger peasant economy of Assam.

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.

A laboratory investigation was conducted to evaluate Campbell soil water retention model parameters, viz., pore size distribution index, notional air entry potential and saturation moisture and to develop pedotransfer functions for the soils of Central Brahmaputra Valley Zone of Assam.

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

Rohmoria, in the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, is severely affected by river-borne erosion. Efforts to get government help in combating this erosion passed through different stages of peaceful agitation and ultimately took a political character. People

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.

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