Dibrugarh

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Dibrugarh

(dĭb`ro͝ogər), city (1991 pop. 125,667), Assam state, NE India, at the confluence of the Brahmaputra and Bibru rivers. The town is on a narrow plain adjacent to hills and is often threatened by monsoon floods. It is a district administrative center and a terminus for rail and river traffic. There are four airfields, which were used by the British against Japanese forces in Myanmar during World II. Dibrugarh is surrounded by tea plantations and has tea factories and rice and oilseed mills. There is some coal mining and petroleum production.

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Summary: Dibrugarh (Assam) [India], Aug 25 (ANI): Dibrugarh Police on Sunday busted a drug racket at Kalibari and seized around 1 kilogram of heroin and over Rs 19 lakh in cash during a raid.

Assam: Drug racket busted, around 1 kg heroin, over Rs 19 lakh seized

Built over the Brahmaputra River near Dibrugarh city, the 4.9 kilometre Bogibeel Bridge is aimed to boost transport connectivity and logistics operations in areas bordering China.

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A security personnel stands beside Bogibell Bridge in Dibrugarh. Image Credit: PTI

Lobby group welcomes visit to Assam by Indian PM Modi

Dibrugarh: Prime Minister Modi, seeking to create more jobs, called for value-addition of natural resources and creation of ancillary units.

Modi seeks to create more jobs

Research Scholar, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam.

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In Dibrugarh 11 machines were replaced in Lahowal, Duliajan, Dibrugarh, Tingkhong and Chabua.

Over 90 faulty EVMs replaced in Assam

So when Dibrugarh journalist Ikbal Ahmed invited me for the Fifth International Bodo Festival and Third Sonowal Kachari Cultural Festival at Dibrugarh, I did not think twice before accepting the invitation.

A day in Dibrugarh

Sources said as many 24 executives--all managers and assistant managers--fled their estates in the three Upper Assam districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sivasagar despite additional security personnel being deployed in the tea-producing belts of both the Brahmaputra and Barak valleys.

Tea planter murder triggers exodus

Summary: Dibrugarh (Assam) [India], Aug 22 (ANI): The Forest Department of the district administration on Thursday rescued a leopard, who had strayed into the city.

Assam: Leopard rescued in Dibrugarh

Dibrugarh: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to inaugurate the new rail-cum-road bridge over river Brahmaputra at Bogibeel near here on December 25, a demand has come up for naming it after the founder of the erstwhile Ahom Kingdom of Assam, Chaolung Siu-ka-pha.