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  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

  • 12/01/2018

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Assam
    • Dengue
    • Vector Borne Diseases
    • Health Insurance
    • Health

• Closure of stone quarries throws 500 workers out of jobs

  The stone quarries in the Deuduar-Gopeswar hill range in Assam have been closed down for almost one year now with the result that over 500 workers have been thrown out of employment even as the

  • 06/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Mining

• Poachers with kunki elephants held

  Following stepped up vigil within the Digboi forest division, Assam, initiated by the DFO there, Kamal Kumar Sarmah, four poachers and two kunki elephants were held at Kherjan recently. A single

  • 04/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Wildlife

• Measures adopted to check elephant depredation in Biswanath

  Elephant depredation arising out of depletion of forest cover due to illegal felling and smuggling of trees has become a matter of serious concern for both the Sonitpur East and the West forest

  • 04/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Wildlife

• Training on joint forest management held

  The Assam Forest Department and the Regional Centre National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board (NAEB) organised a four days training at Assam Forest School, Jalukbari from January 26 to March 1

  • 04/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Forests

• Encroachment posing threat to Kochmara RF

  Rapid encroachment poses a serious threat to the Kochmara Reserve Forest of Dhing, Assam, and as a result of which animals are facing extinction. Despite encroachment and deforestation, the

  • 07/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Wildlife

• Sikkim forest cover up 6.75 pc

  Sikkim has recorded a area of the state, a report published by the government report PTI. There was a net increase of 479 sq. Km in forest cover till 1997- which amounted to 6.75 per cent of the

  • 09/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Forests

• Strategy to tackle man-elephant conflict drawn up : Bordoloi

  State Forest Minister Pradyut Bordoloi today stated in the floor of the Assembly that the only way to tackle the rising trend of man-elephant conflict was to sensitise the people on the need to

  • 14/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Wildlife

• Disaster Management Bill on the cards

  The State government has prepared a Disaster Management Bill for improving disaster management schemes in the State. This was disclosed by Revenue Minister Mithius Tudu in response to a question by

  • 13/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Environment

• Brahmaputra Board's bid to check erosion in upper Assam

  For the Brahmaputra Board engineers, used to prepare master plans to save the region from the vagaries of floods and erosion in the region, actually executing a flood and erosion control scheme is a

  • 13/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Environment

• Call to develop green chemistry to counter pollution

  India today needs to design, develop and implement the green chemistry, or, the clean chemistry, as it is known otherwise, for ensuring its sustainable development by eliminating the use of the

  • 16/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Environment