After showing signs of improvement in the past one week, flood situation in Assam worsened on Sunday because of heavy rain in Arunachal Pradesh. About 71,819 people in five districts are affected by flood while 28,600 in three districts had been hit by the deluge. Sonitpur and Nagaon were added …
The 2012 floods in June this year because of heavy rains and breaches in embankments of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries have caused colossal loss of life and property across the state. However, there are some districts that have been worst hit namely Morigaon, Sonitpur and Nowgaon affecting more than …
TEZPUR, June 29 – Altogether 2.22 lakh people of 243 villages have been affected by the flood in Sonitpur district and 1.77 lakh people are taking shelter in 100 relief camps in different places of the district. On the other hand, 1200 people have been shifted to safe places. Meanwhile, …
IAF air-drops food packets in Tinsukia, where 50,000 people are still marooned Floods continued to wreak havoc in Assam on Tuesday, as the Brahmaputra and its tributaries sent more areas under water, and 50,000 people were still marooned in the worst-hit Tinsukia district. The Indian Air Force (IAF) air-dropped food …
Guwahati: More than 10,000 people have been affected in the first wave of flood in Assam with almost all major rivers, including the Brahmaputra, maintaining a rising trend as the monsoon hit the state as well as adjoining areas. The first wave of flood had so far affected the five …
The Power Grid Corporation of India, a Government of India enterprise, which is in the business of transmission of power from power projects in the north-eastern region, through their 800 KV, 400 KV, + - 800 KV and 132 KV lines, is allegedly dealing with extra high tension power in …
Folic acid debacle SIVASAGAR: The Sivasagar district unit of All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) today staged a three-hour protest at Doul Mukh Charali in Sivasagar against ‘folic acid poisoning’, in which several hundred girls in Sonitpur and Darrang districts fell ill after consuming the folic acid tablets distributed free in …
Who will now be held responsible? Whose negligence is all this? And will the guilty face the music? GUWAHATI/ TEZPUR/ MANGALDOI: At least 350 girls in Tezpur and 45 in Mangaldoi fell ill after they were given folic acid tablets under a National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scheme in Sonitpur …
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 …
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 …
GUWAHATI: Protests have started in northern Assam since Wednesday morning to thwart an attempt by the authorities to transport turbines to the NHPC big dam site at Gerukamukh in Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. Supporters of several organisations, including the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), All Assam Students Union (AASU) and Asom …
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 …
GUWAHATI, Oct 28 – Alleging that the State Government has failed to protect the interests of the people living on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, the locals of the area complained that the State is losing its land due to Arunachal's aggression. Arunachal Agrasan Pratirodh Samity, a forum to protest the …
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 …
Guwahati, Sept. 5: The Elephant Task Force of the Union ministry of environment and forests has called for setting up of conflict management task forces in Sonitpur and Majuli, the two places in Assam that are witness to the highest incidents of human-elephant conflict. The move has been necessitated as …
- BRO hill-cutting puts habitat of Sonitpur animal reserves in danger Guwahati, Aug. 20: The Assam forest department has allowed the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to widen the Balipara-Bhalukpong road in Sonitpur district, putting in peril the habitat of the Sonitpur elephant reserve and the buffer of Nameri tiger reserve. …
Farming is a multifold activity and the prime occupation of the majority of people living in rural India. It is important to develop an ideal agricultural production plan which can provide at least the minimum requirement of a farm family in terms of food, fuel and fibre. In this article …
