BEHRAMPORE: A major share of the MPLAD funds allotted for Murshidabad MP, Mr Abdul Mannan Hossain, was used to construct metal and concrete roads both in rural and urban areas of his constituency.

The tsunami of December 26, 2004, devastated many coastal areas in Sri Lanka. Curiously, the tsunami spared several areas which had mangroves - dense forests of salt-resistant trees and shrubs that grow in brackish, low-lying coastal swamps in the tropics and subtropics.

New Delhi: Arunachal Pradesh has reacted with shock over China

His family left Manila when Buencamino "Boy" Talabucon was only three years old to settle in Davao del Sur. They were

poor and so after graduating from high school, he started working by driving a passenger's vehicle.

Sushanta Talukdar

A view of the Balijan Tea estate eroded by the Brahmaputra in Rohmoria village in Dibrugarh district of Assam.

Over the past 20 years, the river has eaten into paddy fields, homes, schools and plantations in the 38 villages of Rohmoria under the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency.

GUWAHATI

PATACHARKUCHI, April 3