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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicBrahmaputra river

Topic: Brahmaputra river

For first 300 yrs of their history, Ahoms were more Thai than Indian. Here’s how they changed

Describing Turks as aliens but Ahoms as nationalists erases all their complexities.

Another year, another deluge in Assam — why northeast floods are getting grimmer

Floods have displaced millions of people in northeast India and Bangladesh this year. Driving the annual phenomenon is a volatile confluence of factors that make a bad problem worse.

Longest vessel sails on Brahmaputra with cargo fit for 3 trains: How it was done & why it matters

With a length of 90 metres and width of 26 metres, MV Ram Prasad Bismil Tuesday completed pilot delivery of cargo that included nearly 1,800 metric tonnes of steel rods.

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Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.