Order of the Gauhati high court in the matter of Syeda Mehzebin Rahman Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/06/2021. The matter related to assistance in the form of food grains and other materials to people living in slums and other areas. The High Court directed the Secretary, District …
GUWAHATI, March 24: According to the State Forest Department sources, about 18 per cent of reserve forest area in Guwahati has been illegally encroached upon. Around 65,894 families have encroached upon 71 per cent government land area in 16 hills in Guwahati’s Jalukbari, Gotanagar, Lankeswar, Fatasil and Gorchuk areas. Out …
GUWAHATI: There is no let up in the problem of land erosion caused by the Brahmaputra and its tributaries in Assam. Official records stated that the State lost 46,939 bighas of land due to erosion caused by the rivers in 2012. The district of Sonitpur in upper Assam lost 29,025 …
Three elephants have been found dead in different areas of Assam, official sources said here today. The carcass of a wild elephant with its trunk, tail and tusk removed, was recovered from a reserve forest in Assam's Kamrup (Metro) district today, forest officials said. An adult male elephant was electrocuted …
Gauhati High Court today asked the Kamrup (metro) district administration, GMC and the GMDA to submit action-taken reports for solving the city’s hills encroachment problem by April 1 next year. A division bench of Chief Justice A.K. Goel and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh issued the directions during hearing of a …
Gauhati High Court (GHC) Chief Justice AK Goel and Justice NK Singh has asked the Kamrup (metro) Deputy Commissioner, Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) to submit a report within three months on the steps that would be taken by their respective …
GUWAHATI, Nov 29 – Dreaded dengue fever has taken a toll of 11 human lives in the State. Director Health Dr D Hojai told this newspaper that till November 26, the number of suspected victims of the disease was 1051 in the State. Of them, 739 were confirmed to be …
MIRZA, Nov 29 – On the one hand, the Assam Government has been initiating several schemes to plant trees with the investment of crores of rupees but on the other, it has chosen to remain blind to the massive felling of trees in the reserve forests of Assam. Vibrant Reserve …
GUWAHATI, Oct 17 – Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) today resented the failure of the Government to supply adequate relief materials to the flood-hit people of a vast area of the Rangiya and Hajo Legislative Assembly Constituencies (LACs) in Kamrup district. The floodwaters of the Puthimari and the Baralia inundated …
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 …
MIRZA, Oct 14 – The Assam Government’s tall claims of serving the poor people by initiating a host of anti-erosion measures to protect the flood and erosion ravaged people have been running into rough weather and in every case the so-called erosion measures launched in the last 50 years have …
GORESWAR, Oct 10 – A well-attended representative meet was held at No. 24 Agdala LP School recently under the aegis of the Brihattar Baihata Chariali Krishi Bhumi Paribesh Sangrakshan Samiti (BBKBAPSS) to discuss the unabated sale of agricultural land located in and around the vast Baihata Chariali area falling under …
GUWAHATI, Sept 24 – The overall flood situation in the State has worsened further with nearly 14 lakh people in 1,972 villages under 63 revenue circles of 16 districts reeling under flood. In Tinsukia district, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and Army have been pressed …
GUWAHATI, Sept 23 – Incessant rains are to be blamed for the present flood situation in the State. The present flood situation has no connection with release of stored water by China in the upstream of the rivers that have originated within the Chinese territory. This was the assertion made …
GUWAHATI: Dispur is not taking the Assam’s inter-State boundary problem with Meghalaya seriously and has left the villagers living along the Meghalaya border at the mercy of the neighbouring State. This was alleged by the Greater Baisistha Development Coordination Committee. According to the Greater Baisistha Development Coordination Committee, several acres …
Shillong, July 9: In the wake of the assault on RTI activist and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti leader Akhil Gogoi, the National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information (NCPRI) today demanded a strong and effective Whistleblowers’ Protection Bill to protect RTI users and anti-corruption crusaders. Akhil was assaulted while he …
Guwahati: The flood situation is improving in Assam but at least 13 districts are still under flood waters, the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) said Sunday. The death toll related to floods and landslides had gone up to 124 till Sunday. While 108 persons have died due to floods, the …
July 4: The Kamrup (metro) district administration will now seek the help of IIT Guwahati to conduct a study into the perennial problem of waterlogging in the city. The study will be undertaken to find a permanent and lasting solution to bail out the residents from recurring flash floods. The …
Guwahati, June 29 (IANS): The deadly Japanese Encephalitis has claimed three lives in Assam in the past few weeks, health officials here said on Thursday. So far, one person has died in Sivsagar district in Upper Assam, and two others have died in Guwahati. Joint Director of Health Services (Kamrup …
Incessant rainfall in catchment areas during the last week have led to a rise in the water level of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries, inundating vast tracts of farmlands and villages in several districts of both Upper and Lower Assam. The water-level of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries was maintaining …
Guwahati, May 22: Assam plans to prepare a people’s bio-diversity register, which will document the biological resources in the state, their medicinal or any other use or any other traditional knowledge associated with them. Assam forest and environment minister Rakibul Hussain announced this during a function organised here today on …
