Everything you need to know about North Lakhimpur: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about North Lakhimpur: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Beijing, May 20 (Xinhua-ANI): The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired another short-range missile between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. local time after launching a missile on Monday morning, Yonhap News Agency reported.
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) What began as an impulse to help those in need of dire medical attention in isolated areas of Assam, where the mighty river Brahmaputra is both a lifeline and a curse, is today a unique mission to reach healthcare to almost a million people spread over 13 districts of the far-flung northeastern state.
Toronto, May 9 (IANS) Hindus comprise 1.5 percent, Sikhs 1.4 percent and Muslims 3.2 percent of Canada's population of around 35 million, according to the 2011 National Household Survey conducted by Statistics Canada.
Washington, May 9 (ANI): Chewing gum company Wrigley has paused production and sales of its caffeinated gum, as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating the safety of added caffeine.
Washington, April 26 (ANI): Your drink would warm more than twice as much in humid weather compared to in dry heat, according to University of Washington climate scientists.
Sochi, April 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Sochi 2014 organisers have issued unequivocal security assurances in the wake of the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, with the chief organiser promising the safest Games in history.
Washington, April 17 (ANI): Two international teams of astronomers studying long-lasting gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have concluded that they likely arose from the catastrophic death of supergiant stars hundreds of times larger than the Sun.
Moscow, April 16 (IANS) Russian police have searched the offices of the company supervising the development of North Caucasian tourism cluster, including several Olympic venues in Sochi, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
Mumbai, April 5 (IANS) The shipping ministry plans to create an additional port capacity of 280 million tonnes this year, mainly through the public-private-partnership (PPP) mode, with a focus on efficiency and increasing draft, Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan said here Friday.
Islamabad, April 4 (Xinhua-ANI): At least three people were injured when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit parts of northern Pakistan on Thursday morning, said local media.
Washington, Apr 2 (ANI): A little-known 1948 contract between the estate of Orville Wright and the Smithsonian has the museum legally bound to call the Wright brothers first in flight.
Washington, March 25 (ANI): A single Powerball jackpot ticket that was sold in New Jersey has been declared the winner of 338.3-million-dollar jackpot after matching all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing, according to lottery officials.
Four men were recently jailed for providing matchmaking services for ghosts. They supplied 10 female spirits for 10 lonely male spirits. The female ghosts have been returned to their original graveyards.
Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): After meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, former American basketball player Dennis Rodman is now en route to Rome with the goal of meeting the Catholic Church's next pope.
Guwahati, March 6 (IANS) A mentally-imbalanced patient in Assam Wednesday beheaded a quack, who had been treating him for years without success, police said. He later carried the victim's head to a police station and surrendered.
Moscow, Feb 26 (IANS/RIA Novosti) French actor Gerard Depardieu plans to make a movie about Chechnya, the regional government said.
London, Feb 5 (ANI): A tiny "genetic patch" can be used to prevent a form of deafness that runs in families, a new research has shown.
London, Jan. 18 (ANI): Scientists from US, have used materials that have properties purposefully designed rather than determined by their chemistry called metamaterials, to build an imaging system, which samples infra-red and microwave light.
Guwahati, Jan 4 (IANS) Police in Assam's Lakhimpur district have arrested a CRPF trooper for allegedly raping a physically challenged woman, police said Friday.
Patna/Guwahati, Jan 4 (IANS) In the midst of the nationwide rage over rape and other forms of sexual assault, two troopers were under arrest Friday - one from Assam Rifles for allegedly molesting a woman who jumped from a train in Bihar and is in critical condition and the other from the CRPF on charges of raping a physically challenged girl in Assam.
Lakhimpur (Assam), Jan.4 (ANI): A trooper of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has been arrested by Assam Police for allegedly raping a handicapped woman.
London, Jan. 3 (ANI): A 999 time-waster stretched emergency services on New Year's Eve by asking a paramedic to measure the temperature of a dog.
Moscow, Jan 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia will hold large-scale naval drills in the Mediterranean and Black Sea in late January, the defence ministry said Wednesday.
Moscow, Dec 27 (IANS) A 34-year-old Muslim cleric was found shot dead inside his car in southwestern Russia's North Ossetia republic, RIA Novosti reported Thursday.
Moscow, Dec 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A group of lawmakers from the lower house of the Russian parliament have introduced a bill that would ban sales of energy drinks in Russia, the State Duma website said.
Moscow, Dec 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian police have uncovered the country's largest counterfeit currency network responsible for monthly producing over 40 million rubles ($1.3 million) of fake banknotes, including euros, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
London, December 12 (ANI): British Labour Party politician, Ed Miliband has revealed how he fell for his wife Justine on the campaign trail - and revealed that their idea of a romantic night in is to talk politics.
Washington, Dec. 12 (ANI): Lost presidential candidate Mitt Romney is finally a winner - for speaking a load of gibberish.
Washington, December 11 (ANI): Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have been able to discover how North American porcupine quills easily penetrate tissues and why, once lodged in flesh, they are often difficult to remove.
London, Dec. 3 (ANI): Turkey has requested NATO to deploy Patriot missile defences on its territory.
Guwahati, Dec 2 (ANI): With the aim of creating employment opportunities in Assam, the Institution for Culture and Rural Development (I-CARD) at Bhagchung in Jorhat district is training uneducated youth, mainly school drop outs.
New Delhi, Dec 1 (ANI): Expressing concern over the problems being faced in the construction of the 2000 MW Subansiri Lower Hydropower Project (SLHP) in Arunachal Pradesh owing to agitations launched by the KMSS, AASU and other organizations in Assam, Lok Sabha MP Takam Sanjoy has sought the Central Government's intervention to pave way for the expeditious development of the project.
Washington, November 28 (ANI): Giant carnivores like Tyrannosaurus rex dominated the Cretaceous period, but huge plant-eating theropods - close relatives of both T. rex and today's birds - also lived and thrived alongside their meat-eating cousins.
London, Nov 27 (IANS) A leading member of the UK Independence Party has likened allowing gay people to adopt to "child abuse", the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
London, November 21 (ANI): A good night's sleep could boost memory and help youngsters learn new words, according to a new research.
Islamabad, Nov 18 (IANS) At least two security personnel were killed and seven others injured in a bomb explosion targeting a security convoy in North Waziristan region of Pakistan.
Guwahati, Nov 16 (IANS) ULFA's anti?talk faction has called for a 12?hour dawn?to?dusk shutdown in Assam Monday to protest against the killing of three people in a staged gun?battle Nov 14.
Guwahati, Nov 8 (IANS) Four people have died of dengue in Assam and over 200 people have tested positive for the mosquito-borne disease, health officials said Thursday.
London, Nov. 7 (ANI): Footballer Ched Evans has lost his right to appeal against his conviction of raping a teenager in a hotel room in the UK.
Washington, Nov.6 (ANI): Kirstie Alley has revealed that she and Patrick Swayze began an intense emotional relationship while filming their 1985 miniseries 'North and South,' even though both of them were married at the time.
Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): People living in Pakistan's tribal belt have no access to police stations, courts, or any other form of legal help to report being wrongly targeted by drones, a Pakistani lawyer has said.
Gurgaon, Nov 2 (IANS) A man near Sohna town in Haryana killed his nephew over a row over sharing a quilt, police said Friday.
Guwahati, Oct 4 (IANS) Guwahati police recovered the bullet-ridden body of the spouse of a top Assam police official from a vehicle near the famed Kamakhya temple in the city Thursday evening.
Washington, Oct 4 (IANS) US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney Wednesday fought over economic topics including job creation and the government deficit during their first presidential debate held in Denver, Colorado.
Washington, September 28 (ANI): A North Carolina State University researcher has described a new species of freshwater fish that has several interesting - and perhaps cringe-inducing - characteristics, including a series of four hooks on the male genitalia.
Moscow, Sep 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) At least four militants have been killed in a special police operation in Russia's troubled southwestern Chechnya region, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said.
New York, Sept 19 (ANI): In North Caroline children were exposed to six minutes of pornography as they watched an animated movie in Disney channel.
North West Police have arrested three persons who were indulged in making obscene MMS of a girl and then harassing her.
Washington, Sept. 11 (ANI): Days after the Obama administration designated the Pakistan based Haqqani network as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation, the U.S. has hinted that it is still undecided about placing the Taliban on its list of foreign terrorist groups.
Washington, Sep 8 (ANI): President Barack Obama's speech during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, sparked off a surge in the number of tweets on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter.
Washington, Sept. 6 (ANI): Actresses Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Kerry Washington have been lined up to speak at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday.
Washington, August 31(ANI): An international research team made use of a dying star's fury to probe a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years distant.
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) At least three people were killed and five injured after a commercial building under construction collapsed here Thursday, police said.
Los Angeles, Aug 30 (IANS) Actress Jennifer Aniston and her fiance Justin Theroux stepped out for a dinner with actress Courteney Cox at the Sunset Tower Hotel's Tower Bar here.
New Delhi, August 27 (ANI): To give impetus to the North East market and source of livelihood to local people, a delegation of Arunachal Pradesh lawmakers will meet
Moscow, Aug 24 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Armed men in masks kidnapped a police officer in Russia's troubled southwestern region of Ingushetia, officials said Friday.
Washington, Aug 23 (IANS) About half of the aerosols affecting air quality as well as causing climate change over North America seem to be originating from other continents, including Asia, Africa and Europe, says a study.
Washington, Aug 23 (ANI): Pakistan's former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani has said both countries should abandon their stormy partnership to forge a "post-alliance future" based on ground realities, expectations and each country's self-interest.
Moscow, Aug 17 (RIA Novosti) US President Barack Obama has extended a legal act that lists Russia, among 16 other states, as a national threat, and allows for the freezing and confiscation of assets in the US.
Pyongyang, Aug. 3 (Xinhua-ANI): Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has called on all the officials, party members and working people to uphold Kim Jong Il's patriotism to build a prosperous country, the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported Friday.
Washington, July 28 (ANI): The proliferation of mobile phones in North Korea is reportedly becoming the catalyst for new forms of enterprise, according to a report.
Sydney/Shanghai/New Delhi, June 28 (ANI): Over four in ten corporate travel buyers expect number of trips to increase in latter half of 2012, even as companies are sending their employees on the road again, tempered by a growing emphasis on cost control and efficiency for corporate travel, a study undertaken by Egencia, the fifth largest travel management company in the world, has revealed.
Agartala, June 26 (IANS) The 61st meeting of the North Eastern Council (NEC), a regional planning body, would be held in New Delhi Wednesday to finalise strategies for improving connectivity and other infrastructure in the region, officials said Tuesday.
London, June 26 (ANI): A new breed of WAGs will be supporting their athletic other halves in the Wimbledon Championships, adding a spot of glamour to the sideline.
Guwahati, June 21 (IANS) A human rights group in Assam has sought intervention of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over alleged police atrocities on anti-dam activists in the state.
Guwahati, June 12 (IANS) The first wave of floods that hit Assam about a week ago continues to wreak havoc, affecting over 30,000 people in seven districts of the state till Tuesday.
Islamabad, June 5 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and seven others injured Tuesday when a truck fell into a deep ravine in Pakistan's northwest tribal region.
Guwahati, June 5 (IANS) Over 15,000 people across Assam were affected by floods triggered by incessant rains in the last two days, and officials Tuesday said water levels of major rivers, including Brahmaputra and Barak, are rising.
London, May 24 (IANS) Human rights violations -- including harassment to journalists for exposing abuses -- are still widespread across countries of the former Soviet Union, rights group Amnesty International has said.
Washington, May 24 (ANI): Researchers at the North Carolina State University have developed a computer model of "tumbleweed" Mars rover that would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain.
North Lakhimpur, May 23 (ANI): At least six persons died on the spot while scores were injured when two night passenger buses collided head on over a bridge here early Wednesday morning in Assam's North Lakhimpur district.
Guwahati, May 18 (IANS) Assam's farmer leader and anti-dam activist Akhil Gogoi has decided to start an indefinite hunger-strike here from Sunday to pressurize the state government to stop what he alleged were atrocities on anti-dam activists in Lakhimpur district.
Guwahati, May 4 (ANI): In what should be a major concern to the government, the Maoists are reportedly multiplying their numbers and expanding their operations in the state.
London, May 1 (ANI): British law enforcement officials have said that the seven terror suspects arrested on Tuesday, were allegedly involved in a plot to finance an Al Qaeda group using drug money.
Los Angeles, May 2 (IANS) Spanish Singer Julio Iglesias's eldest daughter Chabeli gave birth to her second child, Sofia, but he knew nothing about the new addition in the family.
Islamabad, Apr 28 (ANI): The latest talks on ending a diplomatic deadlock between the United States and Pakistan ended in failure on Friday over Pakistan's demands for an unconditional apology from the United States for the deadly airstrike by NATO craft in its territory.
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) Families of whistle-blowers who were killed after they raised voice against corruption joined Anna Hazare's day-long fast at Jantar Mantar Sunday and expressed full faith in the movement for a stringent anti-corruption law.
Washington, Mar 22(ANI): American lawmakers have rejected Pakistan's demand to end drone strikes in that country.
Washington, Mar 22(ANI): American lawmakers have rejected Pakistan's demand to end drone strikes in that country.
Washington, March 15 (ANI): Many teenage students regularly carry rucksacks for school which top 10 to 15 per cent of their body weight and risk back pain and other related disorders, a new study has revealed.
London, Jan 30 (ANI): Preston North End manager Graham Westley left his players bewildered after he sent a late-night text asking them to be prepared for a 9/11-style terror attack.
London, Jan 30 (ANI): Preston North End manager Graham Westley left his players bewildered after he sent a late-night text asking them to be prepared for a 9/11-style terror attack.
Pyongyang, Jan 18 (ANI): Former North Korean leader Kim Jong il's eldest son has predicted that the new regime will not last long, with or without reforms, under the rule of his half brother Kim Jong Un.
Islamabad, Jan 11 (ANI): Two US missiles have reportedly destroyed a militant compound in Pakistan's tribal area near the Afghan border, killing four militants late on Tuesday, security officials have said.
Islamabad, Jan 9(ANI): The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is likely to resume drone strikes that were apparently halted following the deadly November 26, 2011 NATO airstrike on Pakistan's border posts.
Tokyo, Jan 8 (ANI): Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of Kim Jong Il, has given his own frank account of late North Korean leader in his upcoming book, including his reluctance to let any of his sons take power, it has emerged.
Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): A scientist has come up with a revolutionary new technology that protects confidentiality and authenticity, seamlessly and simultaneously.
Guwahati, Dec 29 (ANI): Members of the All Assam Students Union carried out a torch march against the Assam government to condemn the recent police action on activists who were opposing construction of dams in the state.
Washington, Dec.20 (ANI): Korean-Americans believe that the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il raises the hope that the event could ultimately lead to the reunification of North and South Korea after nearly six decades.
Washington, Dec 1 (ANI): Some Smartphones models that have been specifically designed to support Google's Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hackers to bypass the operating system's security features, making them more vulnerable to attack, a study has revealed.
Sydney, Nov 28 (ANI): Australian pace sensation Patrick Cummins' manager has said the pacer should be allowed to play in all three international formats for Australia.
Washington, Nov 17 (ANI): Katy Perry has raised more than 8,000 dollars for a charity by selling off a stage outfit from her 2011 'California Dreams' world tour.
Gurgaon, Nov.2 (ANI): Unveiling its 2012 Corporate Travel Forecast and Hotel Negotiability Index, leading travel management company Egencia has predicted that airline average ticket prices (ATPs) and hotel average daily rates (ADRs) for top corporate travel destinations will be slightly up overall in North America and Europe.
Islamabad, Oct 25(ANI): Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has categorically denied that he had ever struck a deal over allowing the United States to conduct drones strikes inside Pakistan or unilateral military action against Osama bin Laden.
London, Sept 19 (ANI): Researchers have unearthed a pair of fossilized teeth on the Bureau of Land Management property in northeast Oregon, which they believe are the earliest record of living beavers in North America.
New Delhi, Sep 18 (ANI): Mild tremors were felt in parts of North and East India on Sunday evening after an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit Sikkim.
Kandy, Sep 11(ANI): Former Australian batsman Geoff Marsh insists that it was 'nerve-racking' to see his son, Shaun, survive the nasty nineties and make a historic century on debut in the second Test against Sri Lanka.
Washington, Sept 11 (ANI): A new study has found that men are consistently happier than women with their work-life balance.
Tripoli, Sept 8 (ANI): Human Rights Watch has reportedly discovered many sites in Libya where surface-to-air missiles are missing, raising concerns that the weapons could arm an Iraq-style insurgency if it falls into wrong hands.
Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Scientists have uncovered the skull of a previously unknown species of ancient rhino, a woolly animal that came equipped with a snow shovel on its head.
