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 …
amid predictions of severe natural calamities in future, the Tripura government recently constituted disaster management teams at the village panchayat level and introduced disaster management as a subject in schools. Although the Union government's directive for the initiation of a panchayat level disaster preparedness programme dates back to 2002, it …
This paper is based on the empirical findings from the Supervision Mission of a project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The mission visited the two project districts from 3 May to 17 May 2004 and conducted assessment on the on-going programmes in Karbi Anglong District of …
india's recent decision to initiate the construction of the Rs 5,000 crore Tipaimukh dam project on River Barak on the Assam-Manipur border is facing stiff opposition from Bangladesh. Dhaka's disapproval of the project, envisaged way back in 1955, is not new and now it has decided to raise the matter …
Studied were conducted to monitor the terminal pesticide residues in unpolished, polished and parboiled rice. Fifteen rice varieties were collected from Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS), Titabar of Assam Agricultural University during 2002. Each variety was tested in terms of unpolished, polished and parboiled form, for the presence of pesticide …
Seventy-year old Kashem Ali sleeps on the roadside. There is a deathly silence all around, occasionally broken by shrill cries of people even as vultures and crows hover overhead to feast on bodies and animal carcasses strewn all over. A few metres away, 50-year old Raijuddin Shaeikh sobs inconsolably. He …
the fury of floods reached Assam's power centre when Guwahati's prominent markets got flooded and experts noticed a crack in the city's only crossover bridge over Brahmaputra river. The breach was repaired in record time. But the crisis in the rest of the state hasn't been assuaged to the same …
You live in Bhutan? Or Assam? No, I don't. Sorry, but you were talking of that area. I am a journalist; occasionally travel there. I have also travelled all over that region. Bhutan. Deep into Assam, Siliguri. Really? I used to carry explosives to the region. Explosives! I work for …
Every year the Brahmaputra and its tributaries bring death and destruction to Assam. Yet, there is no long-term plan to tackle floods in the State. AS 50-year-old Madan Kalita, was trying to reach a safe place on a small country boat with his wife and son through the surging floodwaters …
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
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
