Assam’s Rupamoni Gorh: First Woman from the State to Summit Mount Everest with ITBP All-Women Team | Guwahati News

Rupamoni was also the first among the 11 team members to set foot on Everest Guwahati: When the Indo-Tibetan Border Police’s (ITBP) first-ever all-women team made history by summiting Mount Everest on May 21, it was a proud moment for Assam, too, as Rupamoni Gorh became the state’s first woman to conquer the world’s highest…

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Operation RAZEPILL: NCB busts pharma factory hired for Rs 50,000/day to produce ‘jihadi drug’ Captagon

NEW DELHI: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a pharmaceutical unit in Uttarakhand, which was allegedly being used by an international cartel to manufacture captagon, a powerful psychotropic drug said to be widely used by Islamic State (IS) fighters.In a separate operation, NCB has arrested a Myanmar-based drug kingpin from Delhi who was long wanted…

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Separated for decades by rail tracks, India’s only ape species now gets bridges for the gap

GUWAHATI: For decades, the railway tracks running through Assam’s Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary (HGS) in Jorhat district did more than just carrying trains. It cut the forest canopy into two, turning treetop highways into dead ends and splitting families of India’s only ape species, the Western Hoolock Gibbon, inside their only home in the country.Hoolock gibbons…

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