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Bhaskar Gupid
Battle in Bokakhat
Posted March 28, 2011 by Bhaskar Gupid
A constituency known for its sweet peda is gearing up for a bitter battle between sitting MLA and Independent candidate Jiten Gogoi and veteran AGP leader Atul Bora — both of whom face the challenge of keeping voters’ hopes afloat amid perennial threats of flood and erosion.

As one travels through National Highway 37 that connects the eastern and western ends of Assam, midway is the semi-urban Bo...
Bhaskar Gupid
Kaziranga simmers on fringes
Posted March 10, 2011 by Bhaskar Gupid
PEOPLE on the fringes of Kaziranga National Park are anxious. They fear eviction. On January 9, the Assam gover nment issued eviction notices to 10 families in the Kohora range of the park. Others in 16 villages, marked for park extension, fear it could be their turn next.

Residents of the villages marched in protest to the Golaghat district office on February 14 demanding their right to land. “W...
Bhaskar Gupid
At the time when misingOnline.com bloggers are discussing on the issue of the nomenclature of Mising-Miri,this blogger has came across of incident of disappointment to host of Mising students who were disappointed while they were competing for central government jobs in Assam.A beleaguered post graduate student named Munindra Chintey told MO that along with him many Mising tribal jobseekers especi...