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 …
it's a bad time to be a rhino in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. Twenty four animals have fallen to the poachers' hack since early last year. Poaching is, of course, not new to Kaziranga
In Assam, 61 poachers surrendered last month. Their confessions lay bare the workings of an entrenched racket, writes TERESA REHMAN AS HE SMILES, the sharp lines on his forehead and cheeks stress his tough skin and sturdy grit. Twirling his moustache, Dilli Boro
At least 17 persons, most of them children and women, have died in three Upper Assam districts of Golaghat, Jorhat and Sibsagar after having consumed wild poisonous mushrooms in the past four days. The state Government has now warned people not to consume unidentified mushrooms. While 10 persons have died …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has been implemented in Sivasagar district from April 1 this year. With the Government of India deciding to extend NREGA to all rural areas of all the remaining districts in the country from April this year, Sivasagar district administration has taken up a …
Four persons, including three children, died after consuming poisonous mushroom at Bohupathar in Khumtai LAC in Golaghat district today. The dead have been identified as Lakhimi Baruah (10), Lucky Baruah (8), Gautom Baruah (5) and Papu Ahmed (11).
In an almost unprecedented development, xatradhikars of 13 xatras (neo-Vaishnavite monasteries) based here today sat on a mass demonstration at Kamalabari Ferry Ghat to draw the attention of the Government towards the need for the permanent protection of the river island under the threat of erosion. The three-hour sit-in demonstration …
The Assam government today assured Assam Assembly to take necessary steps to safeguard historical monuments that are allegedly under threat because of ongoing seismic survey conducted in Sivasagar district of Upper Assam by a private firm called Shibani, contracted by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC). Most of …
The 29-km long embankment from Sitalmari to Doboka town along the left bank of river Jamuna built by the Irrigation Department in 1993 is breaking apart at seven different places. Though the Irrigation Department has temporarily managed to plug the breaches, floods in recent years has aggravated the problem. This …
Dumping of solid waste and garbage by the banks of the Kalang and the Morikalang is one of the main reasons of water pollution in the region, although people here have been using the water of these rivers for drinking since ages. The polluted water has caused many serious diseases …
The model for kala azar eradication is a cross-sectoral public-private partnership, writes Kavita Khanna in the second of a two-part series Globally, kala azar is the second largest parasitic killer after malaria. In India, Bihar is the epicentre of kala azar, home to, as per the state Kala Azar Task …
Banned outfit ULFA has warned ONGC and Oil India Limited (OIL) to desist from carrying out seismic exploration of hydrocarbons in the Brahmaputra valley in the interests of safeguarding historic monuments, archaeological sites and environment of the state as a whole. The ULFA' warning has given a new twist to …
Rural Development Minister, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh today was all praises for the flood control works undertaken under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) schemes initiative in BTAD area in Assam. Addressing a press conference to mark the extension of the NREGA schemes to cover the entire country, Union Rural Development …
Tests have so far detected the presence of excess fluoride and arsenic in 449 blocks in five districts and in 614 blocks in 18 districts of the State respectively. While samples of 33,000 water sources have so far been tested, tests on another 25,000 sources are on. Replying to a …
Though time and again the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi promised steps to help revival of the tea industry, the incentives offered in this year's Budget have fallen far short of the expectations of the industry and tea sources said that the incentives are far less than those offered by other …
A free mass vaccination-cum-treatment camp for the livestock of the fringe villages of Orang National Park was held recently. The camp vaccinated around 971 cattles and buffaloes against HS and BQ as a pre-monsoon preventive measures to form an immune belt in the park. This was stated in a press …
As a part of an awareness drive against Japanese Encephalitis, a vaccination camp will be organized by the NRHM from April 2 to April 22 targetting children between 1 to 15 years of age. A rally was taken out from Old Dak Bunglow here today. Tinsukia Deputy Commissioner KK Dwevedi …
In a major boost to attain self sufficiency in energy, the Centre today allotted a huge number of solar energy instruments to Asom. During the financial year 2007-08, a total of 750 solar home-lighting systems, 50 solar street-lighting systems and 500 solar lanterns were allotted to Asom. Sources from the …
The huge amount of solid waste generation and their disposal has become a major case of concern at present. In Guwahati city about 500 metric tonnes of solid wastes are generated daily. The solid wastes collected from the various parts of the city has different heavy metal content dependeing upon …
Contamination of groundwater by arsenic and its adverse effect on human being have been reported in 20 countries in different parts of the world. Groundwater arsenic contamination has raised its ugly head recently in Assam. Arsenic concentration in groundwater samples from the three blocks viz. Dergaon (Golaghat North), Kathalguri (Golaghat …
