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Caught in the floods

A group of one-horned rhinos in the floodwaters at Agaratoli under Kaziranga National Park, Assam on August 2, 2009. The 430 sq km sanctuary is home to the world's largest concentration of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. In all, 2,048 rhinos were found in Kaziranga National Park, followed by 84 in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, 64 in Orang National Park, and five in Manas National Park, in the last census in the state. In all, 132 persons have been arrested for poaching 46 rhinos in Assam since 2006. Nine were poached in 2006, 21 in 2007, and 16 in 2008, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said recently.

Camera used: Canon EOS 350D

Copyright: Hemanta Kumar Nath

[ Image uploaded on August 6, 2009 ]

Date	Headline
18/07/2009	Steps for flood-hit in Lakhimpur
07/07/2009	Kaziranga under flood waters
06/07/2009	Assam govt finds someone to blame for floods: Malaysian firm
04/07/2009	Brahmaputra flows above danger level, 19000 families affected
03/07/2009	A number of rivers in spate, Bhutan releases waters
03/07/2009	Matmora dyke washed away; suddenly it's floods
19/06/2009	Lakhimpur flood project can be replicated
17/06/2009	Break in embankment of Hingora river
16/06/2009	Nalbari flood team on alert
13/06/2009	NHPC role irking public in Assam
13/06/2009	Centre can bail out Assam on flash floods
08/06/2009	Assam to study downstream impact of Ranganadi project
04/06/2009	Landslide blocks Tsangpo, creates reservoir
04/06/2009	Breached embankments yet to be repaired
04/06/2009	Arunachal toll is 11
03/06/2009	Assam yet to set up panel on floods
29/05/2009	Floods at Matmora
29/05/2009	Flood havoc in Assam, nine swept away by turbulent rivers
29/05/2009	Travellers stranded in North Sikkim
28/05/2009	Landslide cut off Tawang, Kameng

The Northeast and its Bandhs

Entry added by Subir Ghosh on August 7, 2009
Blogs: Knots by Northeast

We have seen two, virtually spontaneous, bandhs in the Northeast in the days just gone by. One was a relatively-short 12-hour Assam bandh called in protest against the letting off of the accused in the botched-up Parag Das murder case. The other was a much more gruelling 48-hour bandh called in Manipur over the cold-blooded, fake encounter of a former militant. Bandhs have been so rampant in the Northeast in the last 20 or so years that people have become inured to them. And bandhs, more often than not, are a success without the advocates of the bandhs having to drum up much support for them.