
Guwahati: The Assam government on Saturday announced that its planned TV channel would go on air in January 2013 and it would focus on sectors like agriculture, education, health and tourism. This was decided at a meeting of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi along with senior members of his Cabinet and other senior state government officials in Guwahati. "The main aim of the channel would be to bring a progressive turn...

06:46 PM, May 19, 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

West Bengal govt had scrapped an IT park for Infosys and Wipro units. ...

10:50 PM, Sep 12, 2009