Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Heat wave and scanty rainfall have badly affected tea production in Assam, India’s largest tea producing state, with planters fearing crop loss of nearly 10% this year. Pest attacks in some areas have worsened the situation, and it is feared that production of second flush will take a knock. The …
First, the bad news: Three elephants were killed when a local passenger train mowed through a herd in upper Assam's Jorhat district on Thursday. The good news: In Kaziranga National park, forest guards shot dead two poachers before they could kill any rhinos on Thursday. The Guwahati-Tinsukia Intercity Express hit …
The Jorhat forest division has submitted a Rs 1-crore plan to the Assam government to provide financial help to people affected by elephant depredation on the fringes of Gibbon wildlife sanctuary at Mariani in Jorhat district. Under the proposal, those affected by elephant depredation will be given assistance in kind …
A sudden storm with strong winds lashed Jorhat district in upper Assam on Sunday injuring 16 persons and killing eight Adjutant Storks, besides uprooting trees, electric poles and damaging tea bushes and farm fields. The storm hit over 50 villages between Jorhat and Dergaon towns for over 15 minutes around …
The team arrived with three speed motor boats, rubber boats, lifesaving jackets and other life saving gadgets etc Water level of the Brahmaputra river was flowing above the danger level at several places affecting more than 45 villages in Assam's Jorhat district, official sources said today. The water was flowing …
Flash floods have destroyed paddy and vegetables in 14 villages in Titabar area which have been gobbled up by the waters of the swollen Kakodonga river since last week. As flood water has inundated many villages, some educational institutes have remained closed. According to government officials, the flood has caused …
Over 30,000 people of 10 revenue circles in the three upper Assam districts of Dhemaji, Jorhat and Golaghat were affected by floods on Thursday. District administration officials opened 23 relief camps in Dhemaji and Golaghat districts for the flood victims. About 4,000 people took shelter in the relief camps. According …
While the flood waters receded in Bongaigaon and Sivsagar districts, fresh inundation occurred at a dozen villages in Nagaon even as four districts continued to reel under the impact of floods in Assam today. “Fresh inundation has occurred in 12 villages in the low-lying areas of Samaguri revenue circle of …
With no sign of relief from flood waters in Assam, the situation continued to remain critical as 27 more villages were submerged on Thursday. With this, about 1.2 lakh people have been affected in nearly 450 villages, official sources said. According to Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), 27 villages …
The flood in Assam is gradually taking more areas under its grip with around 30 additional villages inundated today, affecting a total of nearly 2,000 hectares of agricultural land in seven districts. According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), Brahmaputra and its tributary Jia Bharali is flowing over …
GUWAHATI: Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS), an NGO, will start pilot projects for watershed management in Bokakhat and Dergaon of Golaghat district and Teok and Mariani in district. The go–ahead was given by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi when the activists of SPS met him at his official residence recently, stated a …
The Assam government today said it would install solar power fencing to check the increase in straying of elephants from their shrinking habitats into human settlements. Forest minister Rakibul Hussain made the commitment while answering a query posed by Congress legislator S. Basumatary regarding elephant depredation in Goalpara district, on …
Assam has been susceptible to the effects of climate change, and this has dramatically impacted the lifestyles and livelihood options of thousands of marginalised women and their households in the remote areas of the State. This has been revealed by a study conducted by the Guwahati-based Centre for Environment Social …
Jorhat, Nov. 9: The Tinsukia district administration has decided to set up a common granary bank and a shelter house on a raised platform in each village in the highly flood-prone villages in the district, to tide over the difficult situation during the rainy season. In a novel initiative by …
GUWAHATI: The State government has signed a loan agreement with World Bank and Government of India for 320 million US Dollars in New Delhi on Monday. Sources said the loan is for improvement of State highways and district roads under the Assam State Road Project. The project would be implemented …
Jorhat, Oct. 29: Schoolchildren from 13 Assam districts were taken on a day’s tour today to Gibbon wildlife sanctuary at Mariani to sensitise them about the need to conserve nature and wildlife. The students, who have been brought to Jorhat for a three-day educational tour under the Gyan Jyoti scheme, …
Jorhat, Oct. 25: The age-old adage, it takes a thief to catch a thief, may be proved true once again if these 20-odd former poachers manage to curb rhino poaching in and around Kaziranga National Park. The ex-poachers got together at Dhubawati Bheloguri village near the park’s Agoratoli range today …
Jorhat, Oct. 17: Inclement weather and a resultant increase in pest attacks have brought tea production in Upper Assam down by more than 11 per cent till September. Talking to The Telegraph today, a scientist at Tocklai Experimental Station said, “Continuous rain and less sunshine hours, resulting in a fall …
Jorhat, Oct. 15: The state health department and the Assam unit of the National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) have asked the districts to create a list of public places which qualify as no smoking zones under the central anti-tobacco law, COPTA. If anyone is caught smoking in such areas, there …
The three waves of devastating floods in India's north state of Assam this year have left nearly 1.8 million children, along with their families, displaced, an assessment done by an NGO Save the Children, said Monday. The NGO found that the first round of flooding affected the districts of Barpeta, …
