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)
-
Chamling for modern methods in agriculture
Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling has called for shifting from traditional methods of cultivation to harnessing modern techniques. It was also decided at the meetings to introduce bio-fertilisers,
-
Fluorosis-hit people seek safe drinking water
Deadly fluorosis has deprived a large section of population in Karbi Anglong of their childhood and youth. Drinking water in many parts of Karbi Anglong hill district particularly in Tekalangjun,
-
Mizoram minister may face action
The ghost of a
-
3,000 children died due to poor sanitation in India everyday'
Poor sanitation in India leads to the death of more than 3000 children every day. Most of these deaths are easily avoidable, said Henk Van Norden, Chief WES, UNICEF, on Sanitation, Hygiene, Child
-
5,500 hectares of wasteland to be reclaimed
More than 5,500 hectares of wasteland situated in the eastern corner of the Tinsukia district of Assam would be made useful either for agriculture or for other purposes from which the people of
-
Wanton destruction of valuable trees on in south Kamrupaneans
At a time when the government and other NGOs are adopting several measures for the preservation of forest resources and the Supreme Court has imposed ban on felling of trees, wanton destruction of
-
Fighting fluorosis
Nothing so tellingly illustrates the inefficiency of the Assam Public Health department than the heart-rending photograph appearing in the media of a young girl with decayed teeth holding up a bottle
-
Brahmaputra, Barak floods crippling Assam economy
Floods caused by the rivers Brahmaputra and Barak and their 52 major tributaries cripple the socio-economic development of Assam and according to a report prepared by the State Water Resources
-
Future of NE lying with its forests: NEC
The NE region of the country is not backward. It is resourceful and has the potential to emerge as the centre of development in the country, said secretary of the North Eastern Council (NEC) PL
-
Dysentry, viral fever spreading in Badarpur areas
Many people have been affected by severe dysentery and viral fever which have spread throughout Badarpur town and its village areas, in Assam, for the last one and a half months. Diseases like