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)
-
Railway line, concrete walls block jumbo corridors
The movement of Asiatic elephants to the famous Deepor Beel Bird Sanctuary has declined as the traditional corridors used by them while coming down from the Rani and Garbhanga Reserve Forests (RFs) to
-
India reports 37,000 dengue cases in 2012
India has recorded over 37,000 dengue cases, including 227 dengue deaths in 2012, the highest number in a year so far, parliament was told Tuesday. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of
-
Steps to check poaching in Kaziranga on cards
With an aim to check the poaching activities, mostly during flood time, concrete measures would be adopted to apprehend the antisocial elements and all required demands would be met before the arrival
-
Govt concealing crucial reports on NE dams
Both the State and the Central Governments are trying to conceal the crucial reports on the dam projects being undertaken in the NE region throwing into wind the set legal norms of the land. With such
-
Dengue claims 11 lives in State
GUWAHATI, Nov 29 – Dreaded dengue fever has taken a toll of 11 human lives in the State. Director Health Dr D Hojai told this newspaper that till November 26, the number of suspected victims of the disease
-
Unabated timber felling on at Kamrup East
MIRZA, Nov 29 – On the one hand, the Assam Government has been initiating several schemes to plant trees with the investment of crores of rupees but on the other, it has chosen to remain blind to the
-
Train-elephant collisions on decline
Recent efforts to reduce collisions between elephants and trains traversing natural habitats and corridors used by the animals appear to have made gains in Assam. Monitoring the movement of elephants
-
Over 1,500 hit by erosion in Morigaon dist
MORIGAON, Nov 25 – Erosion by the river Brahmaputra in three panchayats of Pokoria mouza under Mayong revenue circle in Morigaon district took a grim turn during the last three days affecting more than
-
NE-Thailand road connectivity by ’16: PM
PHNOM PENH, Nov 19 – Come 2016 and one can drive all the way from the North-East to Mae Sot in Thailand, with India, Myanmar and Thailand managing to firm up a date for completion of the ambitious trilateral
-
Concern over fluoride in city groundwater
Poisonous chemical fluoride has been found beyond the permissible limits of 1parts per million (ppm) in the groundwater of many Guwahati areas causing worries to experts. In most parts of the city groundwater