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 …
Forest department proposes plantation to check elephant menace The forest department has proposed a food paradise on the island of Majuli to rein in depredating elephants. Jorhat range officer Pankaj Kalita said the department has submitted a Rs 43-lakh proposal to Dispur to plant trees on 123 hectares of land …
GUWAHATI, : Problems galore in the Agriculture Department in the State. Many posts of senior agriculture officers have been lying vacant, and agricultural infrastructure in the State is very poor. In the past five years, there was little development in the agriculture sector in the State. In order to boost …
Jorhat, May 20: A mini-Kaziranga is in the making on a sandbar along the Brahmaputra in northwest Jorhat. A herd of wild buffaloes have been sighted inside Molai Kathonibari, a wooded area 16km from Jorhat town, for the first time. The area already has a sizeable population of deer, a …
- Two drought & waterlogging-resistant varieties to be released in Nov. Jorhat, May 19: The Tocklai Experimental Station of the Tea Research Association will release two new tea clones during the scheduled World Tea Congress to be held here in November.
- NGO identifies three endangered species in different pockets of Sivasagar district Jorhat: Seven Look, an NGO, has launched several awareness schemes in Upper Assam to conserve turtles.
Jorhat, The number of people infected with the HIV virus is on the rise in Jorhat. Although the names of AIDS patients are never declared, the number of cases have reached an alarming rate. The Health Department stated that more cases were coming to the light as more and more …
Jorhat, April 17: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) and other agencies, including the North East Institute of Science and Technology are conducting microzonation surveys in the Northeast to mitigate the effects of natural disasters. The Northeast is an earthquake-prone zone, with more than six major earthquakes occurring in the …
Sahpuria, a village on the north west outskirts of the Jorhat town, is all set to bag the title as the first tobacco free village in the entire north eastern region of India. As many as 500 villagers took part in an oath taking ceremony in which they vowed to …
- More than 200 families take community oath to kick the killer habit Jorhat, March 21: If the surest way of sticking to a resolution is to get your friends and family involved, then villagers of Shahpuriagaon have gone the whole hog and even tapped their neighbours
Jorhat, March 1: The Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, plans to construct a Northeast regional agricultural complex with state-of-the-art facilities. The Centre has sanctioned Rs 50 crore to make Assam the agriculture hub of Southeast Asian countries. Fifty per cent of the amount sanctioned by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research …
Jorhat, Feb. 10: The Central Muga Eri Research and Training Institute (CMERTI) at Lahdoigarh on the eastern outskirts of Jorhat town is undertaking a number of infrastructure development projects to facilitate transfer of know-how to silk farmers and weavers, personnel of the department of sericulture and other non-government organisations. The …
Jorhat, Feb. 8: Seven satradhikars of Majuli, accompanied by hundreds of their disciples, today visited the erosion-affected areas on the island. This is the first time that the satradhikars, the head of the Vaishnavite monasteries, made such a tour for an on-the-spot-assessment of the damage caused by erosion to the …
Jorhat, Jan. 25: Five more educational institutions of Jorhat district will be declared tobacco-free on Republic Day, giving a further boost to the anti-tobacco campaign. The announcement will be made by the Jorhat deputy commissioner, who is also the chairman of the Jorhat District Tobacco Control Cell. TheJorhat cell
Jorhat, Jan. 13: In what may be termed as a path-breaking find, a team of researchers from the Rain Forest Research Institute (RFRI) here, led by Rajib Kumar Borah, claimed to have pinpointed the fungus which causes formation of agarwood, and ultimately, agar oil, used widely in the multi-million dollar …
Jorhat, Jan. 6: The Assam forest department will conduct a five-day statewide elephant census in the last week of February. The census was scheduled to be held from November 22 to 27 last year but had to be postponed as many areas of Kaziranga National Park were inaccessible. Assam
Jorhat, Jan. 3: The Assam State Transport Corporation has allotted 15 new buses for rural routes across the state as a New Year gift for people living in the remote areas. The buses will start plying with immediate effect. The ASTC has set guidelines for the base stations and buses …
The Assam government will launch an exclusive literacy programme for child labourers in the age group of 14 to 17 years in the urban areas tentatively from January. Official sources said the plan has been initiated after a statewide survey in the urban areas four months back by the directorate …
Jorhat, Dec. 14: The agri-engineering department of Assam Agricultural University has designed a biogas plant which will address both the needs of renewable energy sources and organic farming in a more effective manner. The department has also produced fuel from poultry litter in the same plant but the process is …
