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PASIGHAT: The Siang water is not at all fit for human consumption. Turbidity NTU is 482 while Iron as Fe, mg/l is 1.65 which are found to be beyond permissible limit. This was what the findings of the water testing report of the State Water Quality Testing Laboratory (SWQTL), under the Chief Engineer (Sanitation) PHE & WS department in Itanagar submitted the water testing report of Siang River based on the water sample collected and sent on last week.  Experts say at normal levels, iron is not deadly to any aquatic animals but unusually high amounts of iron exist in water may lead to adverse changes in colour, odour and taste of water and has negative effects on aquatic populations...

Kokrajhar: Despite counter insurgency operations, rebels are moving without any hindrance in BTAD areas if repeated encounters, arrest of NDFB(S) are any indication. ·         Security forces claimed  to have arrested two NDFB-S rebels during a combing operation in Kokrajhar on Wednesday. Acting on some inputs army, police and para military forces launched a combing operation inside the dense jungle of ·         Haltugaon forest area near Jharbari  where two rebels were caught. Identified as Konjit Basumatary alias B Khamdw and Swmkwr Basumatary they confessed to have been working for NDFB(S). A...

GUWAHATI:Yet another sensational murder case in Guwahati sends no less shock and anger across the state on Tuesday. The victim is a college girl who was kidnapped by a youth to be killed in his house in the heart of the city as she refused to be with him. Sweta Singh, the KC Das College student went missing on Monday on her way back to home from college. She was allegedly kidnapped by Govind Singh in Bharalumukh area where he killed her following a quarrel at his house. Then she was set on fire to destroy evidence. Acting on a complaint from Sweta' father, police recovered thr charred body and arrested the youth, his mother and another whom a local court in the city remanded to five days...

 TINSUKIA: The All Adivasi Students Association of Assam (AASSAA) staged sit in for two hours in Tinsukia demanding that the Centre must make public the Naga peace framework to allay the apprehension of the state’s territorial integration. Talking to Assam Times, AASSA president Raja Kujur, General Secretary Ramanuj Lakra said the silence of the Assam Government over the recent Nagaland sub division on the soil of Assam, deterioration of law and order situation along the Assam-Nagaland border have raised doubt over the role of the Government at the Centre and state.   They made it clear that the Government would be responsible for any untoward incident if takes place after the...