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North Cachar

• Landslips leave over 2,000 rail passengers stranded

  About 2,400 passengers of four trains were stranded due to landslips at over 50 locations along the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of southern Assam’s Dima Hasao (erstwhile North Cachar Hills) district since the early hours of Tuesday. The trains were stranded at three places in the hill section. The Up Cachar Express proceeding from southern Assam’s Silchar town to central Assam’s Lumding is stranded at Maibang station and Down Cachar Express at Harangajao.

  • 28/06/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • North Cachar
    • Landslides
    • Rail Transport
    • Rainfall
    • NGO
    • Barak Valley
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Assam
    • Natural Disasters

• Birla Corporation plans to set up cement plant in Assam

  Signs MoU with Assam Mineral Development Corporation to Birla Corporation, flagship company of the M. P. Birla Group, is planning to set up a one-million tonne cement plant in Assam at an investment of around Rs.450 crore.

  • 14/01/2011

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Cement Industry
    • Assam
    • North Cachar
    • Industry
    • Birla Corporation

• Slow progress of NE projects worries Centre

  GUWAHATI, Nov 14

  • 15/11/2010

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • North East
    • North Cachar
    • Assam
    • Silchar
    • Habitat And Urbanisation
    • Development

• Report of the evaluation study on hill area development programme in Assam and West Bengal

  The Hill Area Development Program (HADP) has been introduced by the Government of India to initiate socio economic development in the hill areas of India since the inception of the Fifth Five Year Plan.

  • 30/06/2010

  • Planning Commission
  • • Sustainable Development
    • Environment
    • West Bengal
    • Watershed Development
    • Ecology
    • North Cachar
    • Darjiling (D)
    • Shifting Cultivation
    • NGO
    • Biodiversity Conservation
    • Agriculture
    • Irrigation
    • Deforestation
    • Assam
    • Karbi Anglong

• Unscientific mining affecting Kopili hydel project

  Unscientific coal mining in Jaintia Hills has claimed a victim, affecting functioning of Kopili Hydel Project, by discharging dangerous toxic waste from the mines and acidifying the project

  • 02/01/2010

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • North East
    • Jaintia Hills
    • Mining
    • Kopilli
    • Hydroelectricity
    • North Cachar
    • Toxic Wastes

• CAG points out gross financial irregularities in NC Hills

  The North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council has been in the news for wrong reasons for quite some time and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has also pointed out some glaring financial irregularities committed by the Council in the past.

  • 24/08/2009

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Economy
    • Assam
    • North Cachar

• Jaiprakash plans cement plant in Assam

  NEW DELHI: Jaiprakash Associates, the flagship company of Jaypee Group having interests in civil engineering, cement, power, real estate and hospitality, on Saturday signed an memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Assam Mineral Development Corporation Limited (AMDC) for setting up a two million tonnes per annum capacity cement plant in Assam.

  • 02/08/2009

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Mineral-Based Industry
    • Cement Industry
    • Assam
    • North Cachar

• Green cover downs in insurgency-hit Assam districts

  Guwahati: Insurgency has claimed yet another casualty in Assam in the form of decreasing forest cover in strife-torn hilly districts, though the state still boost of a better forest cover than the national average. The forest cover in districts such as Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills has gone down according to Forest Survey report, 2005, Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain informed here on Wednesday. These districts have been encountering serious insurgent problems with tribal militant groups creating grave law and order problems in these virgin lands.

  • 18/09/2008

  • Shillong Times (Shillong)
  • • Forest Resources
    • Deforestation
    • Assam
    • Karbi Anglong
    • North Cachar

• Bid to rehabilitate jhumias of Wari village

  HAFLONG

  • 13/05/2008

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Displacement
    • Rehabilitation
    • North Cachar
    • Haflong
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  On edge

  Can bamboo become the basis of a thriving industry? Can the northeast cash in the most?

  • 30/10/2005

  • • Forests
    • North East
    • Forest Products
    • Bamboo
    • India
    • Assam
    • North Cachar
    • Mizoram
    • Tripura