MEA leads envoys to Kaziranga as Assam seeks travel ban end

External Affairs minister S Jaishankar and heads of missions of 61 international locations visited Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a UNESCO world heritage site. The Assam authorities hopes that by way of the go to of those heads of missions, the hostile travel advisories laid down by a number of international locations, can be lifted. A number of international locations have given journey advisory to its residents to chorus from visiting Northeast India following the insurgency and different troubles.

Jaishankar and the heads of missions witnessed a grand Jhumar dance, which is the normal dance of the tea tribes, carried out by round 8,600 dancers in Guwahati to mark the 2 hundredth anniversary of Assam’s tea trade.