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Assam losing 8,000 hectares every year due to erosion: Gogoi

The loss of land due to erosion is a permanent one and the affected people have nowhere to go once the flood water recedes, the Assam chief minister added.

Cabinet may approve agriculture varsity in Bundelkhand

The jurisdiction of the university shall extend to the Bundelkhand region covering seven districts in Uttar Pradesh and six in Madhya Pradesh.

Stop fratricidal killings: Nagaland warns underground groups

The minister said it was with genuine intent that he sought the reconciliation of the cadres of various factions to the agreed ceasefire ground rules.

Nitish Kumar ties rakhi to trees to promote environment protection

The CM tied rakhi to trees at a programme here at Eco park and appealed to the people to do so to protect trees which are a necessity for environment safeguard.

LoC firings: India, Pak should talk to resolve issues, says US

The US has said it believes that India and Pakistan can resolve their differences through dialogue and it's policy on Kashmir has not changed.

Puducherry: Man sentenced to life term for acid attack

In one of the fastest trials that lasted four months, a local court on Tuesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the fatal acid attack on a software engineer.

Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Nalini appears in Vellore court

The Judicial Magistrate Court-I, Judge Mummoorthy, will inspect on 23 August the prison cell where, Nalini the life convict in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has been lodged.

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik inaugurates BJD's website

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today asked partymen to use social media to woo young voters, who constitute above 40 per cent of the total electorate in the state.

51 trucks carrying illegal sand seized in Madhya Pradesh

The trucks were loaded with illegally mined sand from the banks of the river Tawa.

Freedom! Animals from Udaipur zoo to be released into forests

Rajasthan Forest and Environment Minister Bina Kak on Monday said zoological parks are not the right place for animals as she announced state government's plan to shift animals of Udaipur Zoo to Sajjangarh forest.

Last batch of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims to leave base camp tomorrow

The annual Amarnath yatra began on 28 June this year and so far over 3.50 lakh pilgrims have performed darshan of the naturally formed ice-lingam of Lord Shiva in the 3880-metre high cave shrine.

MP receives full quota of rainfall with one month to go in Monsoon

The state is bound to get surplus rain as almost a month is left before monsoon recedes, Met sources said.

Land resource dept spends 20 yrs, Rs 1000 cr, but fails to computerise records

The two schemes, initiated way back in the 1980s, were merged into modified and improved National Land Records Modernization Programme (NRLMP) in 2008.

Three injured as bomb explodes outside Manipur hotel

The bomb, which was hurled at the hotel at Mantripukhri area on the outskirts of Imphal at around 9 pm yesterday, exploded injuring three persons who were working in the hotel, they said.

UIDAI issues over 40 cr Aadhaar numbers till date

According to the release, only in the month of July, 2013, about two crore Aadhaar numbers have been generated.

Akhilesh brings bureaucrats face-to-face with media

The chief minister instructed his principal secretaries and chief secretary Javed Usmani to take queries directly from the media on the agenda.

UP's Dilip Trivedi to take over as new CRPF chief

Senior IPS officer Dilip Trivedi has been appointed as the new chief of the country's largest paramilitary force CRPF.

Death toll rises to 11 in Odisha mine mishap

Ahmedabad airport tops in customer satisfaction

The survey covered the airports at Chennai, Kolkata, Jaipur, Goa, Ahmedabad, Pune, Lucknow, Srinagar, Calicut, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram.

Assam plans fund to rehabilitate women, children: Gogoi

The chief minister said that a specially trained Assam Police women commando force Virangana has been raised to deal with crime against women.

RS passes Bill to declare Assam's Barak river as National Waterway

The Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 22 March and was referred to Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Centre to conduct pan-India Time Use Survey

For conducting the country-wide TUS, an expert group has been constituted by the statistics ministry.

Manipur makes high-power body to look into Indo-Myanmar fencing problem

The committee would look into the construction of fencing at the border areas near Moreh border town.

Five killed, 4 injured in road accident near Agra

Fire plunges half of Nagaland into power outage for 24 hours

Power supply in Dimapur improved today morning but other districts had to bear with the power cut till the evening.

HC to decide on jurisdiction before hearing Sadhvi Pragya's bail plea

The Bombay High Court said that it would first decide on its jurisdiction to hear the bail petition of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, who is an accused in the Malegaon bomb blast case, before ruling on her bail plea.