The Assam government has come out with a startling revelation, as per which identification and deportation of Bangladeshis flooding the state is one supremely costly affair.

A goods train knocked down a herd of five elephants crossing the track on the outskirts of the city, killing two of them and injuring three others, including a calf, today.

The North East has breathtaking locales ideal for film shooting, but not good roads to lead Bollywood filmmaker there, Shyam Benegal said.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday renewed his call to militant groups, including ULFA, to come forward for talks to solve the state's vexed insurgency problem.

The government is learnt to have decided to allow only three private players to offer 3G mobile services but Rajasthan, Assam and the North East, which were not on the 3G map earlier due to unavailability of spectrum, will also figure in the bidding process.