Last week, Assam's best quality tea was priced 10% lower than five years ago.
Assam, in a red baseball cap and close-cropped beard, claims ties with the Iraqi fighters.
His father, Abdullah Assam, was a mentor to Osama bin Laden in the 1980s.
In the comfortable living room in the Jordanian capital, Hudefa Assam(ph) listens to his latest CD.
Some of the worst of the recent violence was in not Assam but Nagaland.
Assam, one of the states in India's troubled northeast, has been hit by several explosions recently.
Of the five explosions hitting different parts of Assam, two were grenade attacks, he added.
Flooding has also affected the Indian state of Assam and northern parts of Bangladesh.
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BJP's highest hope, by contrast, is its proposed alliance in Assam with the Asom Gana Parishad.
The same media is also silent on the Assam riots between Bodos and mostly, B'desh settlers.
Meanwhile, talks between trade unions representing tea labourers in Assam and the ITA have also fallen through.
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Anandita Dutta Tamuly, 28, achieved the bizarre and fiery undertaking in the Indian north-eastern state of Assam.
"In Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland, poverty in 2009-10 has increased, " the commission said in a statement.
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Four tribespeople have died in violence on the border of the north-eastern Indian states of Assam and Meghalaya.
They also got video messages with doctored images purporting to show the bodies of Muslims killed in Assam.
Durga Bhumij, president of the Assam Tea Tribes Students Association, said the strike won backing from workers across Assam.
Illegal Bangladeshi migrants are already sparking conflict in India's north-eastern state of Assam.
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Wildlife officials say in the last two years elephants have killed at least 180 people in Assam and Meghalaya.
For a while, Assam even had its own immigration policy, until that was struck down by the Supreme Court.
The Assam conflict also spread because people elsewhere sought to capitalise on it.
India is the world's largest tea producer, with Assam accounting for about 55% of its 856m kilogram production last year.
Hudefa Assam says he trained in Afghan camps as a teenager and later went to Bosnia to aid Muslims there.
Strauss denied a claim by the Assam Cricket Association that the teams had been prepared to play a shortened game.
The Chinese army penetrated to the plains of Assam with Indian formations retreating in disarray to the outskirts of Tezpur.
Locals here in Assam and the neighboring states of Manipur and Nagaland add fresh chopped chilies to the pot when cooking curries.
India has deployed aerial drones over Kaziranga National Park in Assam state in a bid to protect endangered one-horned rhinos from poachers.
Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said this was the first time that drones had been used for wildlife protection anywhere in India.
Mr Khandait said the union was also considering an indefinite strike in Assam's tea gardens if management did not accept their demands.
Ms Chanu's hunger strike started after soldiers of the Assam Rifles paramilitary force allegedly killed 10 young Manipuri men in November 2000.
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