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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 Nurunnabi Mian of village Kurtipaul in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur districts. of RpMP under the Narcot...

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 widespread criticism and concerns raised by environmentalists from home and abroad over the years. As...

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 INDMAX fluid catalytic cracking unit at IOC’s Bongaigaon refinery, which will boost high-yield of ...

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 Bangladesh. It provides transit access to Bangladesh for its trade with Nepal and Bhutan. AFP Tourists enjo...

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 conference. “This shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment to develop a modern Assam,”...