The North Eastern Tea Association on Wednesday demanded fixing of uniform and reasonable prices for green leaf in the entire Brahmaputra valley to provide relief to small growers. ssociation chairman Manoj Jalan said the sharp decline in tea prices had triggered a chain reaction with the price of the green leaf of small tea growers going down proportionately. This was detrimental for the industry, he said.Altogether 10 illegal saw mills were demolished while two heavy generators and 600 cubic feet of illegal timber were seized by the forest department from various parts of Nagaon and Morigaon during the second phase of the special operation launched by the department.A septuagenarian was charred to death when his house was reduced to ashes in a devastating fire at Hija village in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lower Subansiri district. It is not known how the house caught fire. The Sonitpur district unit of All Assam Gorkha Students’ Union on Wednesday demanded the withdrawal of Sixth and Seventh clauses of the Indo-Nepal Act of 1950 in order to check infiltration from Nepal. Justice H.K.K. Singh of Gauhati High Court said the Aizawl bench was the finest among all the benches in the region. Singh said this at a farewell dinner hosted for him by the Mizoram Bar Association and the High Court Aizawl Bench Employees’ Welfare Association on Tuesday. The Mizo Zirlai Pawl, apex students’ body of Mizoram, on Wednesday passed a resolution urging the state government to decide on a convenient day to be observed as Students’ Day every year. Union minister for development of the Northeast C.P. Thakur on Wednesday assured a delegation of the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) that hostels for students of the region would be opened in Calcutta and Bangalore. The delegation was headed by NESO chairman Samujjal Bhattacharjya. Ajoy Lekharu was elected president of the BJP’s Guwahati City District Committee on Sunday. Achyut Sarma was elected observer.
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To Rohini Kumar Das, advocate of Gauhati High Court, for being conferred the President’s homeguards and civil defence medal for meritorious service
