Star Cement official kidnapped from Jorabat
02 Sep. 2010
NETV Bureau, Guwahati
Close on the heels of the rescue of two Kokata-businessmen from the Jorabat area of Guwahati, another person, a top official of a cement company was kidnapped on Thursday from the same area. Barely 36 hours after the police rescued two Kolkata businessmen from their abductors in Jorabat area on Wednesday, another person was kidnapped from the same area on Thursday. This time, a top functionary of a Cement company was kidnapped. Narendra Nimodia, a director of the Star cement company was kidnapped from a food joint at Jorabat Thursday afternoon when he went there for lunch. According to the driver of his [...]..More news ...
After dam, China plans hotel on B’putra
02 Sep. 2010
NETV Bureau, Guwahati
China, which is rapidly expanding the infrastructure in Tibet with billions of dollars of investments, would soon build a five star hotel at the picturesque Brahmaputra Grand Canyon to make it an international tourist spot. A Chinese tourism company said it would build a five-star hotel near the Brahmaputra Grand Canyon. The announcement came amidst concern over a proposed mega dam, dubbed as the world’s largest hydel project, on the Great Canyon by Beijing. A Chinese tourism company announced Tuesday that it would build a five-star hotel near the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, a renowned scenic spot in Tibet, to enable visitors to better enjoy the dramatic sights. The hotel would be built atop a hill in Paizhen [...]..More news ...
Mammoth rally in Gerukamukh
02 Sep. 2010
NETV Bureau, Guwahati
It was a mammoth rally AGP organized at Gerukamukh on Thursday in protest against the Lower Subansiri Hydel power project. From early in the morning over 20,000 people gathered from 9 assembly constituencies covering Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts. With banners and festoones the protesters gheraoed the project site for several hours. AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary along with former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, MPs Birendra Prasad Biashya, Kumar Deepak Das lashed out at the Centre for allowing NHPC to continue the construction works defying the expert panel recommendations. Apprehending any untoward [...]More news ...