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, Nov 18: With the sightings of leopards at various places and one death in different parts of the district, the Forest Department has gone into a tizzy, yesterday. On the other hand, the nights are taken up with warding off a herd of wild elephants making inroads at Northwest …
JORHAT, Nov 12: More than 100-strong herd of wild elephants which has been terrorizing villagers in upper Assam for the last few years is back at the Nimati-Hatisal and Kokilamukh areas along the Brahmaputra here. Villagers, apprehensive of the herd ravaging the ripe paddy, are keeping a night long vigil …
JORHAT, Nov 12: With much fanfare and high expectations, the Rs 1.7 crore National Fishery Seed Farm was opened at Jalukonibari in the district in 1986. Today, the place stand in ruins with dense overgrowth covering the 120 bighas of land allotted for the purpose. Non-feasibility of the project initiated …
Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable death in the world today. Tobacco kills a third to half of all people who use it, on an average 15 years prematurely, a press release stated. Keeping in view its harmful effects, the District Tobacco Control Cell of Jorhat has …
A two-day seminar on danger of construction of big river dams was organised by NEEDS, a Jorhat-based NGO, at the Fishery Training Centre here on October 10-11. The seminar discussed about the danger of the
FORTY-FOUR people died of Japanese encephalitis, a viral infection, at the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh on July 28. The same day another 68 patients suffering from the viral disease were admitted to the hospital that receives patients from across the state. T R Borborah, principal of the medical …
The National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), Nagpur, has undertaken an ambitious project to assess the State
The efforts of the State to overcome the adverse impact of the drought-like situation have perhaps bearing fruits. About 88 per cent of the targeted 18 lakh hectares of sali paddy area of the State has so far been covered with seedling transplantation. It is expected that the State will …
JORHAT, Aug 9: At a time when the State Government as well as the Centre emphasized on the development of all sides in the State with their much touted claims like
JORHAT, Aug 5: The sharp increase of leopards in the last one decade in the district has proved conservation efforts successful but in the absence of a concrete project to sustain and help in further multiplication, the wild cats are increasingly coming into conflict with man with the former losing …
JORHAT, July 15: More than a 100 strong elephant herd which has been creating havoc in areas of North-West Jorhat since last month is now exploring the isles along the Brahmaputra. Forest Department sources said that, the herd moved from Kartik Sapori to Aruna Sapori last night and that forests …
MANOJ ANAND The Assam government on Wednesday declared drought-like situation in 14 out of 27 districts due to erratic monsoon that recorded far less than normal rainfall across the state this year. In this regard, a formal notification was also issued by the state revenue department after a review meeting …
JORHAT, July 6: As many as 19,000 hectares of land comprising 4,717 hectares crop area and 41,000 population have been affected in the first wave of flood in Majuli sub-division of Jorhat district. According to the report received from district administration of Jorhat, more than 40 villages of the riverine …
MANOJ ANAND The first wave of flood that hit the state on Thursday washed away the 100-metre stretch of the state-of-the art Matmora embankment. More than 2,00,000 people have been displaced and over 300 villages submerged in the past two days in Assam following flash floods, triggered by heavy monsoon …
Jatropha (Jatropha curcas Linn.) is a non-edible oilseed plant with adaptability to marginal semi-arid lands and wastelands. The Indian Government is promoting jatropha to reduce dependence on the crude oil and to achieve energy independence by the year 2012, under the National Biodiesel Mission. Adaptive trials on J. curcas were …
JORHAT, May 12: The man-animal conflict in Jorhat has received a new dimension with hordes of rhesus monkeys menacing villages in North-West Jorhat. The area which comprises cultivable farms of fruits, vegetables and paddy are facing depredations on a daily basis. A farmer of Madhya Goru Mora village, Robin Bora, …
JORHAT, May 7: The flood displaced people of Majuli, the reverine island of Asom, are still residing on the embankment at North-West Jorhat under Dergaon legislative assembly constituency. As many as forty families which are displaced from their original homesteads of Majuli are still languishing in the open at no. …
