Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Guwahati: The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 (2015-16) states only 10.4% of households in Assam have a family member covered by a health scheme or health insurance. NFHS-4 was carried out under the aegis of the ministry of health and family welfare with the Mumbai-based International Institute of Population …
Cotton College is set to embrace solar energy in a big way, and as the first step, it has entered into a joint venture with the Regional Office, Ministry of New and Renewed Energy (MNRE), Government of India, for setting up a 1-MW solar power plant in the college campus. …
BSF forced to shift outposts frequently, criminals taking full advantage, cattle smuggling on the rise Rampant land erosion by the mighty Brahmaputra is creating great difficulties for BSF jawans when it comes to patrolling the Indo-Bangla border. Due to the erosion problem, the BSF often has to change their border …
For a couple of days there has been no rain in Kaliabor and scorching heat has been making the life of people miserable. Due to unbearable heat caused by blazing sun and dearth of rain, the number of children going to school has also decreased. Although it has been raining …
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday took stock of nine baby rhinos rescued from the recent spate of floods and kept at a rehabilitation centre in the Kaziranga national park. Sonowal interacted with officials and got a briefing on the status of the baby rhinos, baby elephants and some …
The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday slapped an environment compensation of Rs 25 lakh on Assam- based Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) for destruction of forest cover in Golaghat district to construct a boundary wall for a golf course. While directing NRL to demolish the boundary wall near Deopahar protected reserve …
GUWAHATI: For the first time in the city, a project has been initiated to study the emission of black carbon particles by vehicles and their impact on public health and the local environment. Black carbon is the most strongly light-absorbing component of particulate matter (PM), and is formed by the …
Agartala/Aizawl : A 5.5-magnitude earthquake in the Myanmar-India border region on Tuesday rocked Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya and some other parts of northeast India, but there was no report of major damage, officials said. “The 5.5-magnitude quake hit various states of the northeastern region of India at 7.41 a.m. on …
GUWAHATI , India is battling with a two-pronged problem of environment as well as energy crisis.Together with its prolonged struggle to remove the evils of inequality, poverty and improvement of the human development indicators, a constant degradation of environment and ecological destruction has become a runaway problem, leaving a large …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs. Union of India & Others dated 24/08/2016. The application was filed against the alleged illegal activities including operation of stone crushers, brick kilns, tea factories and other polluting activities in the No Development Zone that was demarcated …
NTPC Bongaigaon on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Forest department to contribute for plantation of one million trees in the State through the Forest department, official sources informed here. The MoU was signed by D Mathur, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Head of Forest …
Guwahati, the gateway to the North Eastern Region (NER) of India is the largest and fastest growing commercial and industrial centre in the Region. The pressure of the ever increasing human population and expanding commercial and industrial activities has resulted in generation of enormous municipal as well as other wastes …
- Health workers intensify operations Altogether 66 new cases of dengue were detected in Kamrup (metro) today, taking the number of people affected by the disease to 378 in the district and 458 in the state. Kamrup (metro) has been the worst hit with the disease claiming the life of …
GUWAHATI- At a time when development is the buzzword both at the government and societal levels and Swachh Bharat campaign launched by the Government is making inroads in wiping off waste and filth from our surroundings, there seems to be no end to the burgeoning problem of municipal solid waste …
It was first of its kind in north east. A solar operated water purification plant planned and designed by NIT Silchar was installed in the Uttar Krishnapur Part III village, on the eastern fringe of this town, inhabited by a mixed population of Nagas and Bengalis, on Sunday last. It …
Dengue has claimed its first victim in Assam this year with a 36-year-old woman succumbing to the vector- borne disease that has assumed epidemic proportions with Kamrup (metro) identified as the worst-affected district. Official sources today said the woman, hailing from Noonmati in Kamrup (Metro), died on August 9 after …
Hundreds of primary schools located along either bank of the Brahmaputra were flooded this monsoon. For several weeks, students of schools in flood-prone areas missed classes. To make matters worse, the state government set up relief camps in schools, further inconveniencing students and affecting classes. Such interruptions, frequent in a …
According to State Forest minister, 1,024 people died between 2001 and 2016 across Assam in man-elephant conflicts As many as 1024 people died during the period from 2001 to 2016 due to human-elephant conflicts. State Forest and Environment Minister Pramila Rani Brahma revealed this in the Assembly today in a …
Around 40.92 lakh people have been affected so far in the devastating floods this year in the State with 41, 426.48 hectares of agricultural land being exposed to immense loss. This was informed by Minister of State for Revenue and Disaster Management Pallab Lochan Das in the Legislative Assembly on …
The Central Government will take the final call on the under-construction 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project (LSHEP), even if a verdict to be passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) goes in favour of the project. Construction activities of the project have remained suspended since December 2011, following popular …
