Kaziranga National Park, Sep. 12 : Floods in River Brahmaputra and its tributaries are an annual feature in Assam. This year the floods have also inundated large areas in the Kaziranga National Park, displacing hundreds of people in the region and forcing wild animals out of their habitats.
And, this year nearly 80 per cent of the national park has been flooded, which has happened first time in a decade.
Chandigarh, Sep. 12 : To promote the city as a major tourist destination, Chandigarh administration has introduced a special `Bed and Breakfast'''' scheme to provide budget accommodation to tourists along with a family environment.
Chandigarh happens to the second place beside Delhi to have offered such a scheme.
The registered homes under this scheme offer adequate space to the guests, including quality food prepared in hygienic conditions and proper sleeping arrangements.
Panaji, Sept 12 : British national Fiona Mackeown, the mother of murdered teenager Scarlet Eden Keeling, who was summoned by Goa''s Women and Child Welfare Department, failed to appear before the authorities today.
Fiona said that she did not have adequate time to make alternative arrangements for the safety and care of her other children.
New Delhi, Sept 12 : Naval relations between India and Seychelles have taken one more step forward with the Indian Navy agreeing to undertake major repairs of that country’s frontline patrol ship “Topaz”.
An Indian Naval Warship, waiting outside Seychelles territorial waters, will bring the “Topaz” into Indian waters on September 13.
This is the ship''s first port of call after the Indian Govt gifted her to the SCG in February 2005.
New Delhi, Sep 12 : The Army today dealt a severe blow to the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) by killing self styled Lieutenant Shashankar Baruah, its organising secretary, in upper Assam’s Tinsukia District along the state’s border with Arunachal Pradesh.
Acting on a tip off about Baruah entering Assam from Arunachal Pradesh, soldiers of 19 Kumaon Regiment surrounded Dirak and launched an operation to nab him.
Baruah was killed on the spot, and an AK-47 assault rifle was recovered from the slain militant, sources said.
New Delhi - A man wanted for allegedly stealing and smuggling uranium ore has surrendered to a local court in India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya, police told news outlets Friday.
The man, identified as John Khongmin, the son of an employee of India's state-run Atomic Mineral Division (AMD), surrendered on Wednesday and was later remanded to police custody, the PTI news agency reported.
Last week, the state police arrested four people and seized packets of substances suspected to be uranium ore from their possession in the West Khasi Hills district, near the state capital Shillong.
Khongmin had allegedly supplied them the packets bearing the seal of AMD and the government of India, sources in the state police told the news agency.
Kaziranga National Park, Sep. 12 : Floods in River Brahmaputra and its tributaries are an annual feature in Assam. This year the floods have also inundated large areas in the Kaziranga National Park, displacing hundreds of people in the region and forcing wild animals out of their habitats.
Chandigarh, Sep. 12 : To promote the city as a major tourist destination, Chandigarh administration has introduced a special `Bed and Breakfast'''' scheme to provide budget accommodation to tourists along with a family environment. 
Panaji, Sept 12 : British national Fiona Mackeown, the mother of murdered teenager Scarlet Eden Keeling, who was summoned by Goa''s Women and Child Welfare Department, failed to appear before the authorities today.
New Delhi, Sept 12 : Naval relations between India and Seychelles have taken one more step forward with the Indian Navy agreeing to undertake major repairs of that country’s frontline patrol ship “Topaz”.
New Delhi, Sep 12 : The Army today dealt a severe blow to the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) by killing self styled Lieutenant Shashankar Baruah, its organising secretary, in upper Assam’s Tinsukia District along the state’s border with Arunachal Pradesh. 
