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 …
Environment pollution has become a major cause of worry in the cities and towns of Assam and a recent study revealed that a large number of people are suffering from various diseases including skin infection, lung problems and even cancer due to high pollution level. There is urgent need for …
Already 16 lives lost, Sivasagar worst hit district, Centre nixes Health department’s belated vaccination proposal Guwahati, June 21: The knee-jerk reaction of Assam government to yearly outbreaks of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) seems to go by the old saying ‘Chor gole buddhi, boroxun gole jaapi’. This vain groping around for a …
Guwahati: Amid intensifying crackdown against poachers, Kaziranga National Park lost second rhino within a week on Sunday. The poachers killed a female rhino and took away the horn in the Bagori forest range of Kaziranga. The first incident had happened while forest minister Promila Rani Brahma was on a visit …
Guwahati: Assam government has decided to constitute an expert committee to be sent to China for studying the Yellow River (Huwang He) Management Strategies and prepare a road map to stop flood and erosion caused by the Brahmaputra river here. Chairing a high-level review meeting of the Water Resources Department, …
Guwahati: A pre-monsoon shower lasting for about half an hour had the entire city under water on Wednesday. From RG Baruah Road to Zoo Tiniali, Chadmari, Dispur, Hengerabari, Tarun Nagar, Anil Nagar, Lachit Nagar, Bhangagarh, G S Road and Athgaon, there was water everywhere causing immense hardship to commuters. The …
Trying to send a strong message that it would not take rhino poaching lightly, the Assam government has suspended Kaziranga National Park director Mufakkar Ali on charge of "negligence in his duties pertaining to protection of rhinos." Forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma has already made it clear that the government …
The draft national policy on wetlands has been strongly opposed by Green Heritage, a conservationist group from North Lakhimpur. This was stated during a media interaction by the group near Satajaan Wetland on the banks of the Ranganadi river at Pahoomara here recently. Addressing reporters, Dr Prabal Saikia, secretary-general of …
Japanese Encephalitis has taken a serious turn at Lahorighat and Bhurbandha blocks of Morigaon district, claiming six lives and affecting more than 200 people of several villages so far. According to Dr Biplab Kumar Gohain, Joint Director of Health, Morigaon, four death cases due to Japanese Encephalitis and dengue were …
Guwahati: Assam continues to be plagued by Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) with 24 positive JE cases and seven casualties reported so far till Monday. Assam witnessed 863 deaths due to JE from 1996 to 2007. In 2001, 160 succumbed due to JE. The following year, 472 JE cases were reported. …
Kamrup Deputy Commissioner Vinod Seshan today formally launched the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) at the Tularam Bafna, Kamrup District Civil Hospital. The PMSMA has been simultaneously launched in all the 77 health institutions of Kamrup district. In his speech, Seshan said the PMSMA service on the 9th of …
Assam's Guwahati became the first city in the country to have its own city animal with the district administration declaring the Gangetic river dolphin as the mascot. In a press conference, Kamrup metropolitan deputy commissioner M Angamuthu said that the animal, locally known as 'Sihu', would be the city animal …
Wildlife crime experts suggested that the new BJP-led government in Assam, for whom curbing rhino poaching was one of the major election promises, should seek cooperation from neighbouring Northeast states for helping tackling the crime. As poachers from the neighbouring states often comes to Assam to kill rhino and its …
Barring Assam, the process to collect bread samples for laboratory tests is yet to gain momentum in the rest of the Northeast, a week after a Delhi-based NGO warned that cancer-causing chemicals were being used as additives while making bread. A study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment …
No action taken against hospitals or blood banks, says RTI activist In the last 17 months alone, 2,234 persons across India have been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while getting blood transfusions. The maximum number of such cases — 361 — was reported from Uttar Pradesh due to unsafe …
Following heavy landslides due to incessant rain, several roads and houses of villages like Muolhoi, Khonsai, Disgao Raji, Upper Bagetar, Gilgal and Lower Haflong were damaged, leaving the people to pass sleepless nights. The residence of Lamhao Gamlhou, village secretary of Khongsai village, Haflong was completely damaged by landslide on …
Around 4,000 people from 800 families were rendered homeless due to floods at Dharmanagar, the headquarters of North Tripura district, while the arterial Assam-Agartala National Highway remained water logged cutting the state off from the rest of the country. Due to incessant rain since Tuesday night, entire Dharmanagar town and …
Guwahati/Silchar/Karimganj: At least 11 persons, including five of a family, were killed and seven others injured on Wednesday in separate landslides in Assam’s Barak Valley districts of Karimganj and Hailakandi along Mizoram. In Hailakandi district, two massive landslides claimed five lives in Bilaipur and injured a six-year-old boy in Ramchandi …
Heavy rain in Dima Hasao has affected normal life in the hill district of Assam causing landslides at several places, including its headquarters in Haflong, official sources said. Due to incessant rain and landslips since Monday, Haflong was completely cut off as land and train services were cancelled between several …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs Union of India & Others dated 13/05/2016 regarding dumping of municipal solid waste (MSW) on the Deepor Beel, Kamrup District, Assam. Tribunal notes that the affidavit filed by the State of Assam lacks …
In a development which may have a significant bearing on the State, the Union Power Ministry has announced that it is in the process of preparing a framework for hydro-power development in India and the same will soon be taken to the highest level in the Government. This was announced …
