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Assam Chief Secretary Ravi Kota conducted a thorough review and joint inspection of the preparations for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Moran in the Dibrugarh district on February 14. Accompanied by the state DGP and senior Indian Air Force officials, Kota focused on significant aspects of the visit, particularly the arrival of the PM's aircraft at Northeast's first highway-based emergency landing strip along the Dibrugarh–Moran route. He meticulously assessed various factors including security arrangements, traffic management, crowd regulation, and the technical readiness of the emergency landing facility. Additionally, Kota reviewed trial runs that began on February 8 and instructed…

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday launched a fresh political attack on the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) and its president Gaurav Gogoi, alleging internal discord within the party during its ongoing ‘Parivartan Yatra’. Speaking to reporters, Sarma claimed that the yatra, which began on a bus, was disrupted by an alleged disagreement between Gaurav Gogoi and former APCC president Bhupen Borah. “APCC president Gaurav Gogoi started the ‘Parivartan Yatra’ on a bus and got into a fight with former APCC president Bhupen Borah. You can ask him whether it is true or not. Just yesterday, inside the…

Assam's tea industry, one of the largest in the world, is at a critical juncture, requiring innovation and structural reform as emphasized during the 88th Annual General Meeting of the Assam Tea Planters’ Association (ATPA). The region, which produces approximately 1.25 to 1.3 billion kilograms of tea annually—half of India's total—is facing an economic challenge where despite global tea production increasing from 1.5 billion kilograms in 1950 to nearly 6 billion in 2023, prices have fallen, squeezing profit margins for producers. Industry leaders have highlighted the need to transition from merely increasing production to enhancing value through quality, branding, and…

Aaranyak, a leading biodiversity conservation organization, in collaboration with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), hosted a comprehensive awareness and sensitization program on vulture conservation at Sibsagar Commerce College. The event sought to educate students and faculty about the crucial ecological roles vultures play and emphasize the urgent need for their protection, as articulated in an Aaranyak communiqué. Wasima Begum, a conservation official from Aaranyak, highlighted the dangers posed by harmful bacteria found in animal carcasses and discussed how vultures act as nature’s "sanitation workers," preventing disease spread by effectively disposing of dead animals. She underlined the ecological services vultures…