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 …
India's elephants are squeezed for living space, stressed by development, and growing increasingly violent. So are its people. A report from ground zero on the spreading conflict between one of the world's last great elephant populations and the people who share their habitat.
sky's the limit: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to launch a European satellite into orbit from its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle by the end of 2005. ISRO chief Madhavan Nair said this would be the first EU satellite to be launched by the country. The organisation recently …
The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine that public welfare is a core obligation of the state. IT could be coincidence. Or it could be the case that committed public interventions …
Human population increases and development in Northeast India have reduced and fragmented wildlife habitat, which has resulted in human-wildlife conflicts. Although species such as tigers (Panthera tigris) and rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) cause conflict, elephants (Elephas maximus) have become the focal point for conflict and conservation issues. This article presents several …
The bamboo industry in India has an industry growth rate ranging between 15 and 20 per cent. The tallest grass has nearly 1,500 recorded uses ranging from medicines and handicrafts to construction. Though India offers a large potential for growth in this sector, poor management and delay in cultivation can …
Massive erosion along the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in its 150-kilometre course from Hatimura to Kapilimukh in Nagaon district in Assam has placed people's lives
the Brahmaputra has unleashed its destructive force again in Assam. The sudden massive erosion caused by the river along its southern banks in Nagaon district, around 120 kilometres (km) east of Guwahati, has hit many villages hard. The waterbody began wreaking havoc in October. "From October 8 onwards, it washed …
function opentab() { var popurl="image/20031130/25-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } some amphibian species are fast disappearing from Assam, according to a recent study. Around half of the species studied showed a decrease of more than 50 per cent in their population density. Observations were made over a five-year period (1998-2002) in Garbhanga reserve …
Dillip Chhetri was looking for a suitable site. He was to conduct a doctoral thesis on the stump-tailed macaque. He had been roaming the Northeast Indian states for a year searching for a patch of forest with a resident macaque population. The macaque is rare
an exotic fungus may help save your favourite cup of tea. Scientists are planning to introduce a rust fungus to combat a weed that is strangling India's tea crops all over Assam and Darjeeling. However, the biological agent to kill Mikania micrantha may not be as good as claimed
function opengr4(){ var popurl="html/20030715_gr4.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=425,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Example: India & China Developing countries today are passing through what nutrition experts call a ‘dietary transition’. The dietary transition consists of a number of interlinked shifts: • A change in the methods of food production, processing, storage and distribution. As a capitalist economy …
function opengr3(){ var popurl="html/20030715_gr3.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Land of the Fat In the last week of June, the big fight regarding obesity in the US took on real flesh as more than 100 lawyers, consumer advocates and activists landed up at Shillman Hall in Northeastern University, Boston, US, to attend a …
Economists C P Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh call this phenomenon the “calorie consumption puzzle”. Delving into the data released by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSS) on nutritional intake in India
after the heat wave the deluge. Flash floods, triggered by torrential rains over the past two weeks, have rendered at least four lakh people homeless in Assam. This at a time when several states in the country have not yet recovered from a severe dry spell. The monsoon which arrived …
rice has been a staple food of West Bengal from antiquity and thus was grown in abundance all across the region. At one time, 60 varieties of rice were cultivated in Bengal. Pantabhat, which is basically cooked rice soaked overnight in water, was probably a way of preserving rice as
FIRST there was the mounting suspense. All of India awaited with bated breath the arrival of the south west monsoon. Would it arrive? Miraculously, politicians went into intricate calculations: would the bounty be enough to sustain the GDP growth projected in the Tenth Five Year Plan? Then came the rains. …
Majuli, a river island within the two arms of the mighty Brahmaputra river, is a site having extreme historical and cultural importance, and warrants immediate exposure to the scientific community. The island faces an acute erosion problem as no permanent anti-erosion measures based on proper geohydrological models have been adopted …
Northeast India occupies 8 per cent of the country's geographic area, and supports 3.8 per cent of India's total population (2001 census figures). The average population density of the Northeast is 149 persons per square kilometre (sq km), a figure far below India's population density (324 persons per sq km). …
