Page 2 - Supratim Dey

$48 million ADB loan to boost Assam power sector

The loan will help Assam enhance capacity and efficiency of its power distribution system and improve electricity service to end users

Assam tea industry sees potential in Patanjali to make green tea popular

Baba Ramdev has said that he felt green tea was good for health and the company had undertaken steps for research on green tea

Extremely low rate of urbanisation keeping Assam underdeveloped: Arvind Panagariya

56% workforce in Assam in 2011-12 were in agriculture and only 6.5% in industry and the remaining 37.5% in services

Centre to invest Rs 1 lkh cr for improving Assam's road

Gadkari said centre will increase central roads fund to Rs 800 crore from earlier sanctioned limit of Rs 450 crore

Manipur chief minister escapes militant attack

Reports say, two security personnel have been injured

Assam wants industry-specific tax exemptions for attracting investors

North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy, which provides exemptions to industrial units in the region, is set to expire in April 2017

Houston University to partner Oil India in improving production

The collaboration is aimed at augmenting company's reserve base and maximise recovery from its ageing oilfields

Assam would need Rs 2 lakh cr investments to touch double-digit growth: Assocham

The decadal growth clocked by the state during 2004-05 to 2014-14 had been around 6%

Assam halfway in achieving human development goals, finds HDR

Human Development Index of state is at 0.557; Kamrup Metro right on top, Jorhat is next; Hailakandi at the bottom

Assam calls for policy road map to boost infrastructure and road development

The major challenges that plagued the region include poor intra-state connectivity and lack of adequate physical infrastructure, said Assam's PWD minister Parimal Suklabaidya

RSS wants to deter me from working for the poor: Rahul Gandhi

The Gandhi scion today appeared before a court in Guwahati in connection to a criminal defamation suit filed against him by an RSS volunteer

Fund crunch affecting tea research works at TRA's Tocklai institute

Worried is the tea industry as it knows if research works are affected, it's surely going to hit it hard in the long run

16-year fast of Iron Lady of Manipur comes to an end

Irom Sharmila started her hunger-strike on November 4, 2000 two days after 'Malom Massacre' where 10 people at a bus-stop near Imphal were shot dead by security forces

14 killed, 20 injured in Assam attack

Police confirm role of banned militant outfit National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)-Songbijit faction

Electronic goods drive Amazon's growth in Assam

The state is fast-growing market for the e-retailer with 160% year-on-year growth

Bad weather makes Assam tea output to nosedive in July, industry worried

July is a peak tea producing month in Assam; production in July this year may dip by 21-30%

New line to bring Kohima on railway map by 2020

Suresh Prabhu lays foundation stone of 88-km rail line that will provide Nagaland's capital with direct rail connectivity

Liquor revenue in Assam dips after tax hike

Sale of India made foreign liquor and beer fell by 20.83% and 39.31% respectively last fiscal

Assam to undertake Rs 30,000 crore rural investment programme to double farm income

The five-year long programme is in unison with the vision of PM Modi to double the income of farmers

Assam industry wants govt to do away with entry tax

Industry is of the view that levying of entry tax is counter-productive and against the very spirit of Value Added Tax