Finally, Kaziranga breathes free
GUWAHATI: Mining permissions granted without required approvals, unscientific mining and lack of a mechanism to ensure compliance with environmental safety standards. These were some of the rampant violations
Times Of India (Guwahati)
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Locals put up a fight against Dotung floods
At a time when the state is busy in electioneering, the flood-prone people of Paglam Circle put up a fight against a possible deluge during the coming rainy season and conducted a social service at Dotung
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Power, forest minister miss NGT deadline again
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and the ministry of power have yet again failed to file their replies before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday on NHPC's Lower Subansiri Hydro
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Kaziranga loses third rhino in five days
Kaziranga national park lost its third rhino in a span of five days as poachers continued to bleed the one-horned pachyderm at the Unesco world heritage site. The latest carcass was recovered on Sunday
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National Green Tribunal seeks reply in three weeks on Subansiri dam
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has given an ultimatum of three weeks to the Assam government to file its reply on the Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Power (LSHEP) dam on Monday. Earlier, the tribunal
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Kaziranga loses two more rhinos
Kaziranga National Park lost two rhinos on Thursday. While one was killed by poachers at Kukrakata reserve forest adjoining the park, the other one died after the animal fell into a muddy pit. With
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Complete water project in 6 months: HC to Manipur public health engineering department
The Manipur high court asked the state public health engineering department (PHED) to complete a long-delayed water supply project at Chowainamei Makhan village in Senapati district within six months.
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Majuli erosion: HC seeks govt report
The Gauhati high court on Monday asked the state government to set up a high-level committee to examine the steps taken by it and the Brahmaputra Board (BB) to check erosion in Majuli and also asked it
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Rhinos being killed with alarming frequency in Assam
The killing of seven rhinos in the state within a span of a month-and-a-half has proved once again that poachers can still strike the one-horned pachyderm at will and almost with impunity. Of the seven
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Another rhino killed in Kaziranga
Barely a week after poachers killed an adult female rhino at Kaziranga National Park, another rhino was killed by poachers in the park's Agoratoli forest range on Saturday. Poachers shot dead the pachyderm
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UNEP lauds villagers' conservation efforts
GUWAHATI: The residents of Doyang village in Nagaland have transformed a killing field of Amur Falcons into a successful conservation story by shunning traditional hunting last year. Now, their efforts