Photos
Planting paddy
Farmers at a paddy field at Kathiatoli, 32 km from Nagaon, Assam on July 27, 2009. All 27 districts of the state have been declared as agricultural drought hit since there was 34 per cent less rainfall this year compared to the same period last year, Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma said. Due to deficit rainfall during the monsoon period of June 1 to July 22, a total of 13 lakh hectare of cropland have been affected.
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Hemanta Kumar Nath
Planting paddy
Farmers at a paddy field at Kathiatoli, 32 km from Nagaon, Assam on July 27, 2009. All 27 districts of the state have been declared as agricultural drought hit since there was 34 per cent less rainfall this year compared to the same period last year, Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma said. Due to deficit rainfall during the monsoon period of June 1 to July 22, a total of 13 lakh hectare of cropland have been affected.
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Hemanta Kumar Nath
Fist-off
Two sub-junior boxers fighting it out at the 35th All-Assam Inter District Boxing Championship at Nagaon in Assam on July 26, 2009.
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Hemanta Kumar Nath
Electioneering
Former Assam Chief Minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta at a Municipal election campaign meeting at Raha in Nagaon district of Assam on July 26, 2009.
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Hemanta Kumar Nath
Flying high
A greater adjutant stork, known locally as hargila, flies over the outskirts of Nagaon, Assam on July 26, 2009.
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Hemanta Kumar Nath
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh