Silsako Beel

Women staged a semi-nude protest in Assam's largest city Guwahati against an eviction drive in Silsako Beel (lake) area on Friday, as excavators ravaged to the ground several houses to clear alleged encroached land of the wetland.

A youth's body was on Tuesday fished out from a wetland here in which scores of people entered to collect Indian currency notes that were found floating on the water. The youth, in his early 20s, had dived into the Silsako Beel on Tuesday morning along with some other eager beavers to look for and pocket the currency notes floating on the water, po...

Women staged a semi-nude protest in Assam's largest city Guwahati against an eviction drive in Silsako Beel (lake) area on Friday, as excavators ravaged to the ground several houses to clear alleged encroached land of the wetland.

A youth's body was on Tuesday fished out from a wetland here in which scores of people entered to collect Indian currency notes that were found floating on the water. The youth, in his early 20s, had dived into the Silsako Beel on Tuesday morning along with some other eager beavers to look for and pocket the currency notes floating on the water, po...