Free insurance policies to students for dengue
Students of nine schools of Kamrup district received free insurance policy of Rs 20,000 for dengue under the collaboration of a social-based organisation Drishtee and CAFE India under the Behtar India
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Admin steps to mitigate landslide disasters
With the city witnessing three deaths from landslides so far this month, the Kamrup Metro district administration and the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) have now decided to enhance capacity
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50,000 affected in Bongaigaon dist
BONNGAIGAON, Flash flood has affected 22,000 people in 30 villages in Srijangram and 29,901 people in 16 villages in Bijni Revenue Circle in Bongaigaon district. At least 3,245 hectares of crop area
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NGT coal mining ban hits Cachar Paper Mill
An indirect fallout of the ban on coal mining in Meghalaya by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is the near closure of the Cachar Paper Mill (CPM) in Panchgram, Assam. The mill, a unit of the Hindustan
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3 NE cities among 10 cleanest in India
IMPHAL, The capital cities of three North Eastern States – Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura are listed among the ten cleanest cities of the country in a survey conducted by New Delhi-based research and advocacy
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Call to remove encroachment on hills, wetlands
The president of Assam Real Estate and Infrastructure Developers’ Association, PK Sarma, has stressed the need to free the city hills and wetlands from encroachment in order to prevent the recurrence of
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Move to free water bodies from encroachments
The Kamrup Metro district administration today directed all the circle officers (COs) to remove encroachments from the water bodies, natural channels and drains in and around Guwahati. The COs have
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Flash floods torment public yet again
A torrential downpour this afternoon brought back the misery of water-logging and artificial flood to many localities in the city. The shower, which started just after 3 pm and lasted almost an hour,
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NGO welcomes decision to test bakery products
Achik Youth Council (AYC), of Garo Hills, has thanked the Meghalaya Government for its initiative of testing bread and bakery products to check for the presence of cancer-causing chemicals. “We welcome
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Bread samples from Meghalaya sent for tests
Breads samples from Meghalaya have been sent to the Assam Public Health Laboratory and the results are awaited if these contain any carcinogenic compounds. Most of these samples were sent from the State
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Pollution posing health hazards, finds recent study
Environment pollution has become a major cause of worry in the cities and towns of Assam and a recent study revealed that a large number of people are suffering from various diseases including skin infection,