PASIGHAT: The Pasighat district health department is going all out to control mosquito-transmitted diseases like malaria, dengue and recently detected Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the district. Headed
ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh on Monday launched the National Food Security Mission (NFSM), a flagship programme of the UPA government, to ensure food security for all. With the launching of the project by Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandary and Dairy Development Minister Setong Sena, Arunachal has become the second Northeastern state to do so after Assam to launch the project.
GUWAHATI: Guwahati, the capital city of Assam, is the gateway to Northeast India. Situated on the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra and surrounded by hills, this city is a fantastic combination of nature,
GUWAHATI: The flood situation continues to remain grim in the lower Assam’s Tihu revenue circle, Paschim Nalbari, Sarthebari and few other places as the Mora Pagaldia river’s water level showing no signs of receding. To take stock of the flood situation, State Agriculture Minister Nilomoni Sen Deka, on the instruction of the Chief Minister, toured the flood hit areas in lower Assam. Sources said that embankment along the Mora Pagaldia river was breached at three places making more new areas under the Tihu revenue circle vulnerable to floods.
GUWAHATI: A survey conducted by a voluntary association called ‘Jeevan Initiative’ has revealed the high presence of microbes in drinking water at various public places, including schools and hospitals in the city. The association collected samples from drinking water facilities installed at 10 prominent public places in the city and found that all of them failed in the bacteriological test, while four of them failed even in the chemical tests, after it was submitted at the State Public Health Laboratory for analysis.
IMPHAL: Jairam Ramesh, the Union Minister for rural development, drinking water and sanitation, was obviously not satisfied with the slow progress of construction works in the rural areas. Talking to reporters
SILCHAR: Alarmed at the fast dwindling dolphins in the river system of Barak in southern Assam, the nature campaigners, Powlen Singha, BK Dutta and SP Biswas, who are also academicians, have called for
Arunodoy Sangha, NGO, and the forest department of Cachar, on Tuesday launched save nature campaign on the occasion of the World Environment Day at Udharband, 13 km from here. The campaign began with the conveyance of the message of the day and through mass plantations of trees, both general and herbal. With the active participation of the students of various schools around the Udharband block as well as from the Diet located there, the celebration was made quite eventful.
The National Hydro-electric Power Corporation (NHPC) has obtained concurrence of CEA (Central Elelctricty Authority) for 600 MW Tawang-I and 800 MW Tawang-II Projects in Arunachal Pradesh. Environment
Jorhat: Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Mariani, formerly known as Gibbon wildlife Sanctuary or Hoollangapar Reserve forest, the only sanctuary in India reserved for Gibbon or long armed ape has now hit
GUWAHATI, June 1: The Assam Government often claims that it has achieved a lot in the field of agricultural development in the State. Though the State has seen some improvement in crop production, the
