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 …
Heat wave and scanty rainfall have badly affected tea production in Assam, India’s largest tea producing state, with planters fearing crop loss of nearly 10% this year. Pest attacks in some areas have worsened the situation, and it is feared that production of second flush will take a knock. The …
Taking cognizance of a petition alleging that activities of some PSUs in and around the Dehing-Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary in Tinsukia district have been affecting the environment, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday sought responses from the Centre and the Assam Government. Acting on the petition filed by wildlife biologist …
National Green Tribunal on Tuesday sought a response from the Centre and Assam government on a petition alleging that work of some state-owned companies in and around the Dehing-Patkai wildlife sanctuary in Tinsukia district was affecting the environment. Based on the petition, the tribunal also issued notices and sought responses …
The flood in Assam is gradually taking more areas under its grip with around 30 additional villages inundated today, affecting a total of nearly 2,000 hectares of agricultural land in seven districts. According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), Brahmaputra and its tributary Jia Bharali is flowing over …
DIGBOI: With the unexpected discovery and detection of worm like aquatic creatures in drinking water this morning by the residents of Digboi Borbil in Tinsukia District being supplied by Digboi unit of Assam Public Health Engineering Department (APHED), the negligence of the department concerned has quite been felt by the …
The Tinsukia district administration has launched an ambitious project, “Mission Orange”, to increase cultivation of the citrus fruit manifold in the next five years with an aim to bring economic prosperity to the local people and thereby tackle the growth of Left-wing extremism. According to the National Horticulture Board figures, …
Two sub-basins of the Brahmaputra will be the focus of the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme — an international collaborative project that aims to generate knowledge about the impact of climate change on natural resources, ecosystem services and the communities depending on them. The upper Brahmaputra basin in China will …
Use bicycle for your health and the environment — with this message, 14 young environmental activists from Tinsukia pedalled a distance of 540km and reached the city today. The youths from Parivesh Suraksha Samiti, a Tinsukia-based environment group, pedalled through the city’s nook and cranny, distributed leaflets urging people to …
Jorhat, Nov. 9: The Tinsukia district administration has decided to set up a common granary bank and a shelter house on a raised platform in each village in the highly flood-prone villages in the district, to tide over the difficult situation during the rainy season. In a novel initiative by …
Jorhat, Oct. 17: Inclement weather and a resultant increase in pest attacks have brought tea production in Upper Assam down by more than 11 per cent till September. Talking to The Telegraph today, a scientist at Tocklai Experimental Station said, “Continuous rain and less sunshine hours, resulting in a fall …
The three waves of devastating floods in India's north state of Assam this year have left nearly 1.8 million children, along with their families, displaced, an assessment done by an NGO Save the Children, said Monday. The NGO found that the first round of flooding affected the districts of Barpeta, …
DIBRUGARH, Sept 27 – Many tea gardens in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts are reeling under a severe shortage of piped natural gas, and garden managers are finding it difficult to overcome the crisis. The worst-affected tea gardens include Lepetkata. Borborooah, Jamirah (all in the vicinity of DibruwArh) and those in …
The flood situation in central and lower Assam turned critical, with the water level of the Brahmaputra rising alarmingly and flowing above the danger mark in most places. The situation continued to be grim in upper Assam too. The death toll in the current wave of the flood has gone …
TINSUKIA, Sept 24 – With the water levels of rivers receding, the overall flood situation in the district showed slight improvement today. But the north bank of Sadiya is still cut off from the mainland as normal ferry services could not be resumed till today. The areas under the six …
Indian Air Force, Army, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) are being engaged in relief and rescue work The flood situation remained grim in the State on Monday with more new areas submerged across 16 districts, including some parts of Guwahati city, marooning nearly 14 …
GUWAHATI: The flood situation in the State has deteriorated on Sunday with 15 districts reeling under its impact. More than 8 lakh people have been affected in the current wave of floods. Sources said seven people have died in floods in Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Chabua during the past one week. …
GUWAHATI, Sept 23 – Rediscovery of a medicinal plant well known for its anti-cancer property in the rain forests of upper Assam after 98 years of its first collection has fuelled hopes of a new breakthrough in cancer cure. The plant, Nothapodytes nimmonina (Mabberly), was found and collected by Divisional …
DIBRUGARH, Sept 20 – Incessant rainfall since past few days has severely affected Upper Assam districts, causing flood and claiming lives in several places in the region. Two boys - Dilip Malla (17) and Raja Choudhury (19) drowned in flood water in Dholla in Tinsukia district today. Flood situation turned …
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 …
The flood situation in Assam has suddenly turned from bad to worse overnight with the Brahmaputra damaging embankments and inundating over 200 villages, affecting over 1.5 lakh people in just two districts. The authorities have already pressed in the Army and the IAF in addition to the National Disaster Response …
