Flooding has also affected the Indian state of Assam and northern parts of Bangladesh.

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Anandita Dutta Tamuly, 28, achieved the bizarre and fiery undertaking in the Indian north-eastern state of Assam.

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INDIA's two biggest tea companies, Tata Tea and Williamson Magor, have been accused of aiding insurgents in the north-eastern state of Assam.

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Small drones, such as flying cameras, are already available worldwide, and non-military surveillance were recently introduced to track poachers in the remote Indian state of Assam.

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India's top federal investigation agency will probe a series of attacks on rare one-horned rhinos by suspected poachers in the flood-hit state of Assam, a senior minister has said.

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But now Mizoram is a state by itself, no longer part of Assam and the MNF - which was born of the Mautam - is in power.

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The ruling Congress party in India's Assam state has suspended a politician accused of rape after he was set upon and beaten by crowds in a village.

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But the gate at Srirampur - on Assam's border with the neighbouring state of West Bengal - does not have a microchip reader so many of the elephants could be taken out undetected.

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Madhusudan Khandait, secretary of the Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangh or Tea Workers Association, which has one million members, said the state government must take the blame for the deadlock.

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