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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Erosion posing threat to Barkshetri
The remaining works of the Rs 21 crore Mukalmua anti-erosion project initiated by the Central government and cleaned by the Central Water Resources Commission (CWC) is likely to be resumed from the
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Environment awareness camp at Saukuchi
In collaboration with the Ministry of Forest and Environment and Assam Science Society, the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, Assam branch, organised an environment awareness camp in its Gram
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Sattradhikars move to protect Majuli from erosion
The public of Majuli have in a meeting constituted a committee under the Sattradhikars to launch a phasewise movement for pressurising the Government to initiate measures for protection of Majuli
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Focus to be laid on diseases prevalent in region
The Institute of Communicable Diseases (ICD), which was set up the Assam Medical College and hospital premises somewhat loosely on the lines of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD),
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ICAR project for NE farmers
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has launched a project to ensure optimal use of weather forecast by farmers of the region to help them raise their agricultural produces. ICAR launched
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Meghalaya plan to check eco-degradation
To check environmental degradation and ensure better sustainable development in Meghalaya, an update on the latest situation on environment has become need of the hour, State's Forest Minister Singh
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Polio eradication
New WHO Director-General Dr Lee Jong-Wook recently announced plans to rapidly step up the global effort to eradicate prolio, as the programme enters a critical phas. From the end of August to
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Encroachment threatening Sonapur rubber project
The Bogipahar Rubber Plantation Association, Sonapur, Assam, said large-scale encroachment on the sprawling 1,000 bighas of land reserved for rubber plantation and establishment of the Rubber
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Lost land
It is a well known fact that the great earthquake of August 15, 1950 had severely altered the topography and drainage system of the Brahmaputra valley. So excessive had been the flood and erosion
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Govt announces plan for Majuli development
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced a slew of schemes for protection and development of world's largest river island Majuli to assuage the hurt sentiments of the island's venerable Satradhikars and