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 …
Soil and water are two very scarce important natural resources without which crop production is not possible. Soil degradation due to erosion and the depletion of ground water resources are the two major environmental problems threatening agricultual production and productivity in the riverine belt of Assam.
Tezpur: Arsenic and fluoride existing in ground water in Assam's Sonitpur district has claimed five lives and caused several others to suffer from related diseases like stomach disorder, kidney and heart problems. Consumption of water poisoned with arsenic and fluoride regularly was suspected to be the cause of five deaths …
The Assam Power Projects Development Company Pvt Ltd (APPDCL), a joint venture company on Tuesday signed two small hydro power implementation agreements with two companies. The projects are to be implemented under the public private partnership (PPP) mode and commissioned by April 2012. Pahumara small hydro power project of 2 …
Against the backdrop of frequent man-elephant conflicts in certain villages in Assam, a project aimed at securing man's peaceful coexistence with the animal has won international laurels. 'Assam Haathi Project', a collaborative conservation project launched jointly by UK-based Chester Zoo and EcoSystems India to bring down such incidents, has been …
They are educated and industrious youths leading a generation living in an economically tough world, who have stepped forward to steer in a green revolution in greater Puthimari area. It needs to be mentioned that at a time when lakhs of youths have been reeling under the burning unemployment problems …
TEZPUR: The Sonitpur district administration has initiated move to allot title certificates to the Scheduled Tribes, forest-dwellers and other traditional forest-dwellers under Forests Right Act, 2006 (FRA-2006). In connection with this agenda of the district administration here, altogether 3121 ST forest dwellers, including 58 public institutions, such as schools and …
Most of the interior areas of Sonitpur district, which have been identified as endemic to malaria and diarrhoea, have been provided with the 108 (Mrityunjoy) services for which people of these interior areas have benefited a great deal. This was stated by the Joint Director, Health, Sonitpur district, Bireswar Kalita. …
Alarmed over rise in the poaching of highly endangered one-horned rhinos in the Orang National Park in lower Assam, the government has decided to set up five anti-poaching camps to protect the animals. One Horned RhinoThe state's Forest Minister, Rockybul Hussain, had ordered a high-level probe following which chief conservator …
At a time when the cultivators of Assam are spending their days in hopelessness and agony because of the long spell of drought, a new method of cultivation named SRI has brought a ray of hope to them as by this method Ahu rice production can be doubled. This new …
Many water supply schemes in Sonitpur district, which were constructed by spending of lakhs of rupees sanctioned from the Government under the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department, are yet to start functioning. It is necessary to mention here that though constructon works of several schemes have been completed at a …
An earthquake of moderate intensity, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, rocked the city around 12-58 am today. According to the Central Seismological Observatory (CSO) sources, the epicentre of the earthquake was at Latitude 25.4 degree North and Longitude 94.8 degree East on the Myanmar-India (Manipur-Nagaland) border region. It needs …
At a time when hundreds of farmers in Sonitpur district have been reeling under the on-going drought-like situation and the resultant uncertain future, a section of farmers of Saraka, Saraka Baligaon Purani Ghatwa, etc., areas under Bihuguri development block and Tezpur and Dhekiajuli revenue circles of Sonitpur district have been …
Over 15,000 hectares of sali crop area including more than 25,000 families have been affected due to the drought-like situation in Sonitpur district as out of the total area of sali paddy almost 80 per cent areas has remained uncovered due to the deficit rainfall during the month of June …
A low-intensity earthquake rocked the State around 4-15 pm (IST) today. According to sources in the Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) here, the location of the epicenter of the tremor, measured to be 4.9 in magnitude on the Richter Scale, was found to be near Sonitpur district at latitude 26.6 degree …
The overall flood situation in the State has improved considerably with the improvement in the weather condition, said Water Resources department (WRD) sources here. So far, reports of 18 breaches in the embankments of the Jiadhol-Kumatia in Dhemaji district, Kakoi, Ranganadi, Singara, Dorpang in Lakhimpur district and Brahmajan channel in …
