Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in matter of Himangshu Nath Vs Central Pollution Control Board & Others dated 12/09/2022. An application on the worsening air quality affecting the city of Guwahati and the resultant health effects was filed before the NGT. The NGT said that …
The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPVFR) Authority is framing the regulations for a compulsory licensing system under which a registered plant variety could be licensed to a third party for production of seeds, based on the demand from farmers. Registrar General of the authority R.C. Agrawal said …
Poisonous chemical fluoride has been found beyond the permissible limits of 1parts per million (ppm) in the groundwater of many Guwahati areas causing worries to experts. In most parts of the city groundwater is the only source of water for the residents. Increase in fluoride concentration and its presence in …
GUWAHATI, Nov 9 – The Pollution Control Board of Assam (PCBA) has issued directives to all the Deputy Commissioners of the State to keep a strict vigil on the bursting of firecrackers during the festival of Diwali. The board has also asked the authorities concerned to ensure a complete ban …
GUWAHATI: Rutted streets, littered roadside and stink from the drains continue to give the residents of Guwahati a nightmare. A recent survey of the roads of Ward Number 15, which include prominent areas of the city like Fatasil, Cycle factory, Bhaskarnagar, Barshapara, Dhirenpara, Ganeshpara, Anandanagar have shown that the condition …
The rapid urbanisation of Guwahati and the consequent boom in population and construction activities since the last couple of decades has pushed the city's fragile eco-system comprising its forested hills to the brink. Guwahati has 18 hills right within its municipal area. Apart from adding to the natural beauty of …
GUWAHATI, Nov 2 – As many as 183 confirmed cases of dengue have been detected by the Health Department in the State till date, of which three of them had lost their lives. This was informed by Joint Director of Health Services Dr RH Hazarika while talking to this correspondent. …
Jorhat, Oct. 29: Schoolchildren from 13 Assam districts were taken on a day’s tour today to Gibbon wildlife sanctuary at Mariani to sensitise them about the need to conserve nature and wildlife. The students, who have been brought to Jorhat for a three-day educational tour under the Gyan Jyoti scheme, …
Growth is happening faster than we ever imagined. Construction is booming and expansion is gobbling agricultural land I travelled to two different cities in two different states last fortnight — Indore and Guwahati. I came back with images identified by common distinctions: piles of garbage and glitzy new shopping malls. …
GUWAHATI, Oct 19 – The State Government is perhaps not interested to make public the report of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project (LSHEP). This attitude of the State Government has come to light with the reply of the Power Department to an RTI …
BOKAKHAT, Oct 19 – After pit poaching, electrocution and firing methods, poachers have now started to follow another method to take away rhino horns. On October 13, poachers cut off the horn of a female rhino near Sohola Beel under Agaratoli Range of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP). Forest department …
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 …
The Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) will conduct a techno-economic feasibility study of the proposed elevated monorail system in the city. An official source today told The Telegraph that the GMDA has submitted a proposal to the state government seeking Rs 1 crore for conducting the feasibility study. “After getting …
Guwahati, Oct. 14: The century-old Cotton College is looking to the sun to feed its boarders. The region’s oldest college has planned to use solar cookers or solar ovens to cook food in its hostels, as a cost-effective measure after the sharp rise in the price of LPG cylinders. There …
DERGAON, Oct 8 – The killing of rhinos at Kaziranga National Park (KNP) has been widely condemned by nature lovers across the State. The local people of nearby areas of KNP as well as several organisations including AASU, KMSS, etc., have registered their protest over the issue. While talking to …
'There is no specific treatment available for the disease but phase wise general treatment can cure it easily. People must not neglect even simple fever and they must consult doctors. Timely treatment can cure 90 per cent of the dengue-affected patients' Symptoms of Dengue Dengue fever, also known as break …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests had forewarned the State Government and the Forest Department to be on the guard against another wave of devastating floods in Kaziranga National Park and keep itself fully prepared (including Army deployment) against such an eventuality but the State authorities totally disregarded the …
GUWAHATI, Oct 5 – The present day students are becoming more concerned with the growing need of the society they are living in. This is reflected in their activities, particularly in the projects they develop for various purposes. One such project developed by two Class-VIII students of the city-based St …
GUWAHATI: As problems of artificial floods and water-logging continue to harass the people of Guwahati city, the cause of these problems are not far to seek. The occupation of the city’s wetlands— the reservoir of rain waters, have not just disturbed the ecology of the area but have also increased …
GUWAHATI, Oct 2 – The latest count of the city’s greater adjutant stork (hargila in Assamese) population, which has shown a declining trend over the past one decade, yielded a count of 258 this year – which is a bizarre departure from the decadal trend. The population of the greater …
GUWAHATI, Sept 30 – The Guwahati Waste Management Company Private Ltd (GWMCPL), a subsidiary of the Hyderabad-based Ramky Enviro Engineers, has slapped some conditions to continue with its solid waste management programme in Guwahati. The company is working in Guwahati since November 2008. Talking to this correspondent, sources in the …
