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 …
Jorhat, May 20: A forest guard, Ananta Dev Sarma, in-charge of the Pichhla anti-poaching camp in Orang National park, was suspended today for alleged dereliction of duty after an adult female rhino was killed by poachers last night and its horn and tail taken away. A park official said there …
Assam is likely to be the first state in the country to expand the central anti-tobacco campaign to all its districts, with Jorhat as the role model. Satisfied with the performance of the National Tobacco Control Programme in Jorhat, the Centre has asked the state government to start the drive …
Jorhat, April 29: Asam Sahitya Sabha, the premier literary organisation of the state has decided to join the anti-tobacco campaign of the state tobacco control cell. Sabha general secretary Paramananda Rajbonshi told The Telegraph over phone from Guwahati today that since tobacco is consumed as part of social traditions in …
GUWAHATI: For implementation of the Total Sanitation Campaign in Assam, National Coordinator of New Delhi’s Sulabh International Social Service, Rupal Roy, met Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday. Roy briefed the Chief Minister as to how this sanitation programme should be carried on in the State. The Total Sanitation Campaign is …
Jorhat, April 22: A lonely cowherd who spent lazy afternoons planting trees while his cattle grazed along a sandbar on the Brahmaputra and single-handedly grew a forest, was honoured by the Jawaharlal Nehru University with title of “Forest Man of Assam” on Earth Day today. Jadab Payeng, popularly called Molai, …
JORHAT: Within only a week, three leopards lost their lives in Dergaon area with the third one having been found dead in Karunating tea garden on April 14 last. The other two leopards had earlier lost their lives at the hands of the villagers of Bahikhowa and Khakandguri on April …
March 21: On World Water Day tomorrow, when UN experts will mull ways to save the world’s shrinking freshwater resources, animals in Gibbon wildlife sanctuary in Jorhat will wake up to another thirsty day. Water sources inside the sanctuary, which is home to at least seven species of primates, are …
NEW DELHI, March 19 – The Centre has on Monday claimed comprehensive technical studies were carried out for safety of dams including dams in the North-East. In a Rajya Sabha reply to a question by Biren Baishya, Minister of State for Planning and Earth Sciences, Dr Shwani Kumar said the …
JORHAT, March 18 – Veteran filmmaker, director and scriptwriter Robin Chetia is making a full-length feature film dealing with man-elephant conflict. Titled Mur Desh, Mur Hati, the story, script and dialogues have been conceived, prepared and written by Chetia who also directs the film. Talking to this correspondent, Chetia pointed …
Jorhat, March 14: The forest department has shelved the plan to use kunkis (trained elephants) to chase three rhinos back to Kaziranga National Park from Jorhat following objections from Kaziranga authorities. The national park authorities fear that such a move might make the rhinos aggressive and lead to human casualties, …
JORHAT: Incidents of man-leopard conflicts are on the rise in the nearby areas of Gibon wildlife Sanctuary in Jorhat district. After a leopard attacked a person in Kathalguri tea estate on Monday, another person was injured in leopard attack yesterday at Meleng tea estate. During the last one week, dead …
Jorhat, March 7: Assam Tea Corporation Limited will soon add milk to its tea. The PSU, which has 15 tea estates across the state with over 15,000 permanent workers on its rolls, will foray into dairy farming as part of its efforts to shore up its revenue. ATCL chairman-cum-managing director, …
- Institute to foray into production from March to make medicines available at affordable prices The CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology, which has so far concentrated on research, has decided to foray into production from March with the manufacture of two herbal medicines. Director P.G. Rao said the …
A grand procession of trained elephants will trail a rhino family in Jorhat all for the noble cause of herding the wayward trio back to the safety of Kaziranga National Park. The forest department has hit upon the plan to use kunkis (trained elephants) to chase the animals, which had …
The Assam Gas Company Limited is all set to introduce compressed natural gas as a fuel alternative for vehicles, first in Jorhat and then all over the state Jorhat, Feb. 26: Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) will finally be available on a commercial scale in Assam. The Assam Gas Company Limited …
Jorhat, Feb. 3: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will help the tea industry study the impact of climate change on tea bushes. The additional vice-chairman of Tea Research Association, Prabhat Bezboruah, said the recently formed working group on global climate change would take help from Nasa to study climate …
JORHAT: Nikhil Bharat Krishak Sabha, Jorhat district committee today staged a demonstration at the gate of the Deputy Commissioner’s office, protesting against the failure of the district administration and the Forest Department to protect the lives and properties of the villagers of the north-west region in the Jorhat district from …
To unearth the priorities in Assam to cope with floods effectively, the prime objective of this research study is on assessment of the adaptation measures, structural and non-structural, to floods in three districts of Assam, viz. Dhemaji, Jorhat and Dhubri representing North Bank Plains, Upper Brahmaputra Valley and Lower Brahmaputra …
JORHAT, Jan 17 – Visiting the erosion-hit areas at Salmora, Majuli this afternoon, P K Bansal, Union Cabinet Minister of Water Resources and V H Pala, Minister of State for Water Resources, stated at a meeting held in the Majuli College playground near Daria Bridge that Majuli has enough potential …
JORHAT (ASSAM): The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Friday appealed to the Nagaland government and its people to help the organisation resume oil exploration in the state. Production from Champak oil field in Nagaland was 150 tons per day till its operation was stopped in 1994 due to …
