Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
London: Four natural sites of India, including Kaziranga National Park and river Ganges have qualified to represent the nation in the New7wonders of Nature Global Contest, organiser said on Wednesday. Kaziranga National Park of Assam, river Ganges, Sundarban forest and Pangong Lake have qualified under the rules of participation, a …
One hundred rhinos have died in the current year at Kaziranga National Park. Out of them 93 died of natural causes. Seven of these were killed by the poachers. The rhinos who died of natural causes include those killed by tigers and those who died of old age, and due …
Manas (Assam): It was a freedom stroll in the wild for three female one-horned rhinoceros of the UNESCO world heritage site, Manas Sanctuary in the foothills of the Himalayas, last week. Hand-raised by the wildlife experts for more than six years at a rescue centre in Assam's Kaziranga National Park, …
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today asserted that the Government of India has not abandoned the four-lane highway project from Nagaon to Dibrugarh and only the alignment of the road has been changed to bypass Kaziranga National Park. In a statement here today, Gogoi said that during the tenure of the …
In a major initiative to prevent accidental death of rhinos and other endangered spices in road mishaps, the Centre has modified its earlier proposal clearing a four-lane Kaziranga National Highway bypass. Briefing newsmen after the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), Union Minister of State in the …
Development of a road brings cheers anywhere especially in the North East where transport network is very poor and in bad shape. But widening of the National Highway- 37, which rips through the famous Kaziranga National Park, has rung alarm bells for the forest officials and the conservationists. The road …
The Conversion of NH-37 to Four-Lane Demand Committee (Kaliabor to Bokakhat) has urged the Government and the National Highways Authority of India to rescind the decision to exempt the Kaziranga portion (Kaliabor to Bokakhat) from expansion of NH-37. In a statement, the committee argued that the move would have an …
From our Correspondent NAGAON, Oct 17: The unabated encroachment by the thousands of Bangladeshi immigrants in a planned way inside the Kaziranga National Park and its surrounding areas posed a great threat to the security and existence of the park. The Nagaon Upabhokta Suraksha Samiti alleged that the forest authorities …
The Kaziranga National Park, the last home of the highly endangered one-horned rhinoceros, is facing a peculiar phenomenon: while a considerably large number of rhinos are dying due to old age, tigers are also contributing their own way by killing at least 20 rhino calves every year. This year, for …
At least 700 birds, all open-billed storks (Anastomus Oscitans), were killed when branches of a banyan tree crashed apparently due to the increasing weight of nests, in a village in Karbi Anglong district of Assam on Monday morning. The tree is believed to be about 200 years old. The birds, …
DIBRUGARH, Sept 11: The future of the government plan to move a few rhinos from Kaziranga National Park to other areas will be decided after animal experts ascertain the causes which made a translocated animal to move out of its new habitat. A male rhino, which was tranquillized and moved …
Sushanta Talukdar DRIVEN TO DESPERATION: A herd of hog deer searches for food in the Burapahar range inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam on Sunday.
Samudra Gupta Kashyap GUWAHATI, SEPTEMBER 7: With the rain gods taking a holiday on Sunday after a gap of nearly a month, the overall flood situation in Assam looked slightly better though nearly 14 lakh people across the state continued to reel under water, with the Brahmaputra and several of …
Guwahati: After poachers, floods have turned out to be a major killer of one-horned rhinos at the famed Kaziranga National Park, a world heritage site located on the southern banks of the Brahmaputra in Assam. Altogether 168 rhinos have died due to floods between 1974 and 2007. During the period, …
JORHAT, Sept 3: The centenary Kaziranga National Park has lost four hog deer and a rhino calf in the current spell of floods which hit its ranges on August 22. About 50 per cent of the total area of the conservation hotspot, abode of the one-horned rhino, has been submerged. …
Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati, September 2: Brahmaputra has already submerged 60 per cent of Kaziranga National Park. However, thanks to the efforts of the conservation and protection staff and volunteers, the world-famous rhino habitat has been able to put up a brave fight against floods.
