Kaziranga National Park: The Kaziranga National Park in Assam has come up with some fresh ideas to save its tigers. There are about 81 to 131 of them there. CNN-IBN's Arijit Sen travelled inside the park to learn about the technology that has been put to use to spot the big cats. Kaziranga National Park Director SK Bora said, "The habitat we are trying to protect appears to be quite...
09:27 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: It's the second day of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visit to Myanmar and he will be travelling to Yangon to meet pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. This will be his first meeting ever with the Nobel laureate. Singh will be accompanied by External Affairs Minister SM Krishna. The two leaders met Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Monday. It seems India is road to Myanmar on more practical...
06:31 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is heading to Myanmar for the first visit by an Indian PM in 25 years. CNN-IBN has accessed secret military junta documents that shows Myanmar's keenness to develop relations with India to counterbalance China. The documents also say "friendly" Indian diplomats must be cultivated aAnd that the Indian diplomats' advice and help on influential US Congressmen must be sought. The documents clearly indicate Myanmar's...
08:20 AM, May 27, 2012
On the afternoon of July 15, 2004, 12 women disrobed themselves and stood naked in front of the Indian paramilitary headquarters in Imphal. Together they ...
10:27 PM, May 05, 2012
Guwahati: They are the only means of transport between the North and South banks of the Brahmaputra in Dhubri in Assam but these flimsy, ageing and overcrowded boats are also omens of impending tragedy, like the one that happened just two days ago. "In this accident an entire family of nine got swept away," says a resident. But for locals there is often no other lifeline to civilisation. "We have...
10:13 PM, May 02, 2012
Guwahati: It has been over 36 hours since the tragic accident in Dhubri in Assam. By Tuesday morning, 103 were confirmed dead. From then on, there has been no recovery of any more bodies, as bad weather continues to hamper rescue operations at the site. Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is expected to visit the accident site on Wednesday at 2 pm. Rahul will be accompanied by Chief Minister Tarun...
09:34 AM, May 02, 2012
Dhubri: More than 100 people have been found dead and the death toll from the boat accident in the Brahmaputra River in Assam's Dhubri continues to rise. As rescue teams searched for survivors, the families of those who died and those who were missing were inconsolable. A day after the ferry capsized, very few bodies have been recovered. There is no clarity on the number of people dead. While there...
09:08 PM, May 01, 2012
Bangalore: There is a controversy over the death of a student from Manipur at Bangalore's Acharya Institute of Architecture on April 17. Richard Loitam died of a cerebral haemorrhage in his sleep hours after he got into a brawl with a fellow student over the remote control while watching an IPL match. He had reportedly been punched in the head by a fellow hostelmate after a brawl over the TV...
07:18 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Silchar: No work, no pay, no food and left to die, CNN-IBN has exposed hunger deaths in the tea gardens of Silchar in Assam. While the Assam government has rubbished all claims of hunger deaths and reopened the garden on promises, CNN-IBN saw a different story. 35-year-old Ratna Goala is among the ten plantation workers who died out of hunger, lack of medical care and malnutrition in this Assam tea...
06:21 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Silchar: Just weeks after CNN-IBN exposed starvation deaths at a tea garden in Silchar, the Assam government has acted. The government has appointed a one-man inquiry committee to look into the tea estate deaths in Cachar district. The inquiry is to be headed by the additional chief secretary. Four people died as a result of hunger in Silchar as the tea garden in question remained closed for four months. Work...
09:49 PM, Mar 01, 2012
In the Bhuvan Valley Tea estate in Assam, temporary plantation workers get paid forty rupees a day. The permanent lot is a little better off. ...
12:51 PM, Feb 21, 2012
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