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 …
AGP shows solidarity with protesters; submits memo to Governor Assam’s north bank continues to be tense following the heavy protest programmes initiated by various organizations agitating against the transportation of turbines to the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project site at Gerukamukh in Lakhimpur district. The agitators are not allowing transportation …
Northern Assam's Lakhimpur district administration on Thursday halted the movement of an Over Dimensional Consignment (ODC) trailer carrying equipment for the 2000 mega watt lower Subonsiri hydro-electric power project under construction at Gerukamukh in Arunachal Pradesh after 4000 anti-big dam protesters blocked National Highway 52 to prevent the trailer from …
Authorities in Lakhimpur district in eastern Assam were on Thursday compelled to stop forcible movement of an over-dimensional consignment comprising machineries to the 2000-MW Lower Subansiri dam and hydro-electric project in Arunachal Pradesh after several thousand protesters blocked the highway shouting slogans against construction of the dam. “We have suspended …
HALEM, Nov 7 – Continuous erosion by the Brahmaputra on the southern part of Gohpur constituency has become a major problem for the people living under Lohitmukh, Raonamukh, Pichola, Subansiri and Bartamuli gaon panchayats, in Pub-Chaiduar development block. In the last five years, the Brahmaputra has eaten up villages like …
SILAPATHAR, Oct 17 – For the mega projects of Dhemaji and North Lakhimpur districts, boulders are being collected from the river beds of Likabali, Siji, Garo, Padi and Ego in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh for construction works. The people of West Siang feel that largescale collection of boulders …
The flood situation continued to be grim in the state with 29 districts and more than 25 lakh people badly affected by it. With 10 more deaths reported in the past two days, the toll in flood and rain-related incidents rose to 123. All major rivers were flowing above the …
GUWAHATI, Aug 25 – The floodwaters of the Jiadhal and Gai River have inundated 24 villages for the second time, since August 15, today. The fresh flood has affected around 13,000 people of these villages. Dhemaji District Disaster Management Authority (DDDMA) sources attribute this development to the rains that is …
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 …
Kolkata Government-owned Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has decided to set up 10 more steel-processing units across the country, once its expansion programme of ramping up hot metal capacity from the present 14 million tonne (mt) to 24 mt per annum is completed by 2013. Union steel minister Beni Prasad …
GUWAHATI, Aug 22 – Even as the floodwaters of the rivers are receding due to a slight improvement in the weather condition, the overall flood situation in the worst flood-ravaged district of Dhemaji is still critical, said Dhemaji District Disaster Management Authority (DDDMA) sources today. Road communication between a vast …
GUWAHATI: Many schemes under the State Irrigation Department are in the inoperative state. But the department is now gearing up to expedite the process of renovating these schemes to improve irrigation facilities in the State. Talking to The Sentinel, Irrigation Department chief engineer Tilak Chandra Das said, “There are schemes …
Nearly two lakh persons have been affected by the flood that has hit Assam's twin districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji. 200 villages inundated Four people have lost their lives so far in the flood that has inundated nearly 200 villages in the worst-affected Jonai sub division, official sources said here …
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 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today staged a massive protest meeting at Gerukamukh demanding a halt to construction of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project at Gerukamukh. The protest meeting which was attended by several State-level leaders of BJP, besides the former president of the party Rajnath Singh, was participated by …
Guwahati, Sept. 21: The Centre has agreed to include Assam in the green revolution scheme and has asked the state to prepare an action plan. Bihar, Jharkhand, eastern Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal are included under the scheme, called Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana programme.
