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Four held with 10-kg ganja in Rangpur 353 10 kg of smuggled ganja and arrested four drug traders from Modern Mour area under Tazhat police station in the metropolis on Tuesday evening. “An operational team of Tazhat police station conducted a raid there and arrested four drug traders with the smuggled ganja,” said a press release issued by Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (DB) of RpMP Uttam Kumar Pathak today. Ali of village Kuthi Chandrakhana in Phulbari upazila of Kurigram and Nur...

Govt to drop 9 coal-fired plants Shamim Jahangir Reports sound alarm on growing impact of coal projects Govt focuses on LNG, renewable fuels The government has decided in principle to scrap nine proposed coal-fired power plant projects having the combined capacity to generate 7,461 megawatts (MW) of electricity. The decision came at a monthly review meeting of the Power Division chaired by Power Secretary Md Habibur Rahman. The government’s latest decision on coal-fired plants comes after w...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi GUWAHATI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday on his third visit in one month to poll-bound Assam at Dhemaji, dedicated three energy infrastructure in the state worth over Rs 3,000 crore to the nation. Modi also inaugurated the state’s seventh engineering college at Dhemaji and laid the foundation for the construction of eight engineering college of the state at Sualkuchi near Guwahati remotely from Dhemaji. The energy infrastructure projects included the Rs 2,600-crore ...

View: Enhancing Siliguri corridor for ease of trade and transit in South Asia SECTIONS View: Enhancing Siliguri corridor for ease of trade and transit in South AsiaBy Bipul Chatterjee, Prashant Sharma, ET CONTRIBUTORS Last Updated: Feb 20, 2021, 11:44 AM IST Share Synopsis All three immediate neighbours of India on its eastern side - Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal - depend on this trade and transit corridor for their direct as well as third country trade to connect with ports in India and Banglad...

GUWAHATI: On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on his third visit in one month to poll-bound Assam when he arrives at Dhemaji. His visit has been labelled as one that gives a push for developing a ‘modern Assam’ when he dedicates three projects of petroleum ministry worth over Rs 3,000 crore to the nation. Modi will also open the first course of Dhemaji Engineering College and lay the foundation for construction of eight engineering colleges at Sualkuchi near Guwahati via video ...

Correcting Historical Mistake Of Neglecting Assam: PM Modi The Prime Minister virtually launched the Rs 3,231 crore "Mahabahu Brahmaputra" project on Thursday, which includes the construction of an inland water terminal at Jogighopa and tourist jetties at Pandu, Jogighopa, Neamati and Biswanat ghat. Updated: February 19, 2021 8:18 am IST Efforts are underway to make the state and the northeast the hub of cultural, business relations: PM Modi Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted ...

The bridge between Dhubri in Assam and Phulbari in Meghalaya will cut the distance from 250 kms to 19 kms, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 18 during the launch of multiple initiatives in poll bound Assam. “Distance between Assam and Meghalaya is around 250 kms by road. In the future, it will only be 19-20 kms. This bridge will also prove to be significant for international movement of traffic to other nations,” said PM Modi.

PM Narendra Modi launches multiple development initiatives in Assam through video conferencing, in New Delhi on Thursday GUWAHATI: PM Narendra Modi on Thursday virtually kicked off multiple road, water and digital connectivity projects worth Rs 9,500 crore in poll-bound Assam, which includes work on inland waterways, for an alternative connect with the northeast to reduce the region’s dependence on the strategically vital chicken’s neck or the Siliguri corridor. Modi also laid the foundati...

Phuloni (Assam) [India], February 18 (ANI): Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that the Dhubri-Phulbari bridge will reduce the distance between the two places by 203 kilometres. He was addressing a gathering in Assams Phuloni at the foundation stone laying ceremony of a bridge over the Brahmaputra river between Dhubri in Assam and Phulbari in Meghalaya. "Demand for a bridge over river Brahmaputra, between Dhubri, Assam and Phulbari, Meghalaya is 10 years old. With this, the distance...

On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated multiple development projects in Assam aiming at connectivity & development across eastern parts of India.