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 …
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 …
GUWAHATI, May 7 – The Kamrup (Metro) district administration has launched its second phase of cleaning and de-siltation to cope with the problem of artificial flooding that has assumed a perennial status in the city. According to official sources, the second phase has been extended to some of the important …
Jahirpur (Kamrup), April 9: Five thousand faces, which have watched the Brahmaputra eat away their home and hearth for the past 50 years, today stood on the river bank applauding chief minister Tarun Gogoi as he launched a flood and anti-erosion project which will probably be the largest in the …
GUWAHATI, March 4 – The deplorable living conditions in as many as 16 villages on the city outskirts, which are bereft of even the basic amenities of health, education, power, water, communication, etc., stand in sharp contrast to with the oft-repeated government rhetoric of all-round development. An on-the-spot assessment by …
GUWAHATI: The All Assam Shramik Krishak Kalyan Parishad (AASKKP) has lashed out at Dispur constituency MLA Akon Bora for giving permission for the setting up of industrial units on agri land in the Dimoria area. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati today, All Assam Shramik Krishak Kalyan Parishad general secretary …
GUWAHATI: For the development of the backward Greater Dimoria Area, the Star Cement Manufacturing Company Limited is setting up a plant at the Chamatapathar area. But the development of the Greater Dimoria Area has its dark side too. Noor Mohammed, a local resident of the area, alleged that the Star …
Guwahati, Dec. 27: Police today resorted to lathicharge and used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse anti-dam protesters blocking National Highway 52 in Lakhimpur district of Assam. Lakhimpur superintendent of police David Neitam told The Telegraph that the police were compelled to use force when around 800 anti-dam protesters …
GMCH to set up new lab to test sputum for micro bacterium tuberculosis For the first time in the North-east, an intermediate reference laboratory is going to be set up at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) for the culture and drug sensitivity test of sputum for micro bacterium …
Finding the going uphill in their bid to sell their produce for good economic returns, raw jute farmers from different parts of South Kamrup area are facing acute crisis. Too poor to afford the input costs, the marginal farmers who practice the cultivation on a massive scale in thousands of …
GUWAHATI: Social Welfare Minister Akon Bora today announced irrigation projects for Greater Dimoria in Kamrup (metro) district. All the three projects announced have a total budget of more than Rs 1,300 crore. The projects include a Rs 5 crore project at Kursia, another Rs 5 crore project at Kahikuchi and …
Dhubri, Oct. 10: An NGO working for the preservation and protection of forests and environment has demanded vulture habitat centre status for Rajapara reserve forest. According to Aranya Suraksha Samiti, the NGO, Rajapara is the largest natural habitat of the birds after the vulture captive breeding centre at Rani reserve …
More than five months after the ban on use of plastic pouches containing tobacco products by a Supreme Court verdict came into effect, which stated that manufacturers of gutkha, tobacco and pan masala are restrained from using plastic material in the sachets, the manufacturers of chewing tobacco and pan masala …
Nagaon: In what should send alarm bells ringing, the drinking water sources in 571 rural areas in Assam are fluoride contaminated. This situation has been confirmed by the State government to the Union government about two years ago. It is also reported that the Nagaon district has the highest contamination …
The State Government is planning an urban transport authority for regulating public transport in Guwahati. The draft legislation for the purpose is under preparation. The State Government is also contemplating introduction of dedicated bus corridors for the exclusive use of public transport buses in the existing city bus routes of …
Kokrajhar, Aug. 25: Another person died of Japanese encephalitis here today, taking the toll to four. Bimal Mondol, 35, of Saptagram in Dhubri district died at Kokrajhar Rupnath Brahma civil hospital, where he had been referred to after falling ill. Earlier, Judeswari Goyary, 55, of Khargaon village in Kokrajhar had …
GUWAHATI, July 27 – The Census of India-2011 Provisional Population Totals (Rural-Urban Distribution Assam) which was released on Monday has recorded a decadal urbanisation growth of 27.61, which is much lower than the corresponding figure of 38.24 per cent of the previous decade. The urban population of Assam now stands …
GUWAHATI: Tobacco consumption poses serious health hazards. The District Tobacco Control Cell is waging a war against tobacco use. With the objective of creating awareness among people, the District Tobacco Control Cell had organized an orientation programme on tobacco control and its implementation recently, in collaboration with the Kaliram Barua …
Disruption in power supply and lack of awareness among the farmers have made the existing cold storage facilities of the State ineffective, despite there being a growing demand from the farming community and the intelligentsia for more such facilities. The State has so far two cold storage facilities. One cold …
