GUWAHATI: The Birla Corporation Ltd plans to sign a pact with the Assam government in September to set up a one million tonne (mt) cement plant in that state, Birla Corp chairman Harsh V. Lodha said here Tuesday.

‘Everything is in place, we are just waiting for the chief minister to recover fully and resume office,’ Lodha told reporters on the sidelines of an interactive session organised by Indian Chamber of Commerce.

GUWAHATI: Vehicles carrying forest produce in Assam are forced to pay a certain illegal tax to the Forest Department.

NDTV investigated the scam of illegal check gates in the state and found documentary proof of a well organized extortion racket run by government employees.

GUWAHATI: The National Security Guard (NSG) trained the Assam Forest Department newly recruited forest guards, which include women, for the first time since 1992 in martial arts, use of arms, physical fitness, theoretical and field survey of forest areas at Assam Forest School in Guwahati.

TEZPUR: A Nepali-origin businessman has been kidnapped by suspected NDFB militants in lower Assam’s Sonitpur district, police said today.

Two motorcycle-borne NDFB ultras came to the house of Madhab Bhatta Rai and called him out from his Kalamati Naharanigaon residence at around 10.30 pm last night.