Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of S D Loda Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/04/2025. The state of Arunachal Pradesh and Itanagar Municipal Corporation was directed by the NGT, April 8, 2025 to file their counter affidavits on the setting …
Sushanta Talukdar Such projects in upper reaches of Arunachal rivers may hit areas downstream in Assam GUWAHATI:The Assam Assembly's House Committee, which studied the impact of the construction of big hydro-electric dams in the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra in Arunachal Pradesh on the areas downstream in Assam, has recommended …
Narmada Bachao activist leads massive protest rally Noted environment activists and the spearhead of Narmada Bachao Movement Medha Patkar today led a massive protest rally here demanding immediate halt to construction of mega dam projects in ecologically fragile and tectonically highly sensitive Northeastern region, especially in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, …
Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar with Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti leader Akhil Gogoi (right) addresses a protest rally in Guwahati on Wednesday. Guwahati: Social activist and Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar on Wednesday led thousands of protesters in laying a siege to Deputy Commissioner (DC) Pratik Hazela's …
ITANAGAR, July 14: MG-NREGA implementation in the State is set to receive a boost with the just concluded first ever training programme for representatives of media and Bar Council by SIRD here. It was decided that as part of this novel venture of the State Government carried out by SIRD …
Tangru Miji lives on the border of Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh. He used to be a skilled hunter until the park authorities recently convinced him to be a part of their anti-poaching efforts in the reserve. Like other forest guards, Miji leaves for patrolling in the morning and …
GUWAHATI, July 13: Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar today came down heavily on the government for going ahead with the construction work of Lower Subansiri Hydel Project at Gerukamukh along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border even after the expert committee had recommended immediate cancellation of the project. Talking to newsmen …
Guwahati: Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar has raised her voice in support of the growing people's movement against construction of mega dams in ecologically sensitive Northeastern region. She has been invited by Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) to lead a rally against mega dam in the city on Wednesday. …
ITANAGAR, July 12: The three-day Orientation cum Awareness Programme on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA 2005) for members of the Media, Bar Council and Government Lawyers began today at the conference hall of SIRD here. Inaugurating the programme, RD and PR Commissioner Tape Bagra informed that …
A Planning Commission survey has found startling lapses in the celebrated Mid Day Meal programme of the government. While it is aimed at enhancing enrolment, retention and participation of children in primary schools, not only do teachers have to frequently take time out of their duties to help prepare the …
ITANAGAR, July 8: Alleging the NHPC of failing to act on the recommendation of an expert panel that pointed out perils of ongoing Lower Sunasiri hydropower project, the All Assam Students
ITANAGAR, July 5: The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has condemned former MP and BJP National Secretary Tapir Gao for his statement lambasting the numerous hydro-power projects being implemented in the state by the Congress government. In a statement today, the APCC called Gao
ITANAGAR, July 5: Participating in the two days Regional Consultation on combating climate change in the North Eastern and Lower Himalayna regions of India at Guwahati today, Arunachal Citizens Right (ACR) Chairperson Bamang Tago stressed that tribal communities of Arunachal Pradesh are traditional owners of mountains, rivers and forests, which …
Sushanta Talukdar Guwahati: The Expert Group constituted to study the downstream impact of the ongoing 2,000-MW Subonsiri Lower hydro-electric power project of the National Hydro-electric Power Corporation (NHPC) at Gerukamukh on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border has recommended that the mega dam not be built at the present site. From the …
GUWAHATI, July 1 ? The All Assam Students? Union (AASU) today demanded immediate steps to thrust aside the under-construction Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP) and also to shelve all the mega-dam hydel projects proposed in the NE region. The demand of the students? body came in the wake of the …
PASIGHAT, July 1: Despite being endowed with enormous bio- diversity with numerous perennial streams and evergreen forest covers, the Daying Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary
Guwahati:An Expert Group comprising experts from Indian Institute of Technology (Guwahati), Gauhati University and Dibrugarh has given its opinion against construction of the mega dam by the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC) at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh boundary considering the sensitive geological and seismological character of …
Traveling around in Arunachal Pradesh is an experience of a lifetime. With geographical and infrastructural hurdles, very less mortals must have done the globe-trotting business here except for Tomi Ete, a technocrat in various capacities as a government employee. At least he had the endurance to turn all his on-job …
ITANAGAR, June 18: Governor Gen J J Singh, who is also the President of the NERIST Society, would inaugurate the Integrated Bio Diesel Reactor System of 250 litres capacity per day, sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, at NERIST on June 22 next. ITANAGAR, June …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi June 18, 2010, 0:38 IST Will begin a feasibility study in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh India plans to embark on a programme to tap the shale oil reserves in the country after the directorate general of hydrocarbons (DGH) found substantial reserves of the gas in Assam …
