Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
NEW DELHI, June 6 – Claiming that Assam is the seventh fastest growing State in the country, Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday called for faster clearances of coal and gas linkages to revive the State’s power plants to resolve the perennial power crisis. Hailing the State’s robust economy, the …
The Annual Plan for Assam for 2012-13 was on Tuesday finalised at Rs.10,500 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and State Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. At this level, the Plan size is over 16% higher than the outlay for the previous fiscal. Initiating …
The government on Monday signed a technical assistance grant agreement of $1.2 million with the Asian Development Bank to help sustain incomes and livelihoods of people in the erosion-prone main rivers. The assistance will help prepare the ‘Main River Flood and Bank Erosion Risk Management Programme’, which will enhance people’s …
Erosion by the Teesta River has rendered around 70 families of three villages under Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila homeless in the last four days. The affected villages are Kalmati, Tajpur and Gokunda. The erosion-hit people have taken shelter at their relatives' houses at the adjoining villages. The river devoured at least …
GUWAHATI, May 22 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today laid stress on solving the problems of flood and erosion. Once these problems are solved, the health of the State’s economy will undergo a fundamental change, he said while inaugurating a seminar on low cost technology for mitigation of flood and …
Dispur has moved the Centre through the DoNER ministry for setting up a centre to collect hydrological data with German help to ensure effective planning and execution of anti-flood and erosion projects in the state. State water resources minister Rajiv Lochan Pegu disclosed this to The Telegraph on the sidelines …
‘Master plan for other 56 basins, sub-basins of the Brahmaputra and Barak valleys has also been taken up by the Brahmaputra Board’ GUWAHATI: Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources and Minority Affairs Vincent H Pala said that the Brahmaputra Board, a statutory body under the Ministry of …
BHUBANESWAR: With many areas in the Capital city facing water crisis during summer, renovation of ponds and other water bodies has become a necessity. To address the issue, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has earmarked Rs 5 crore for renovation and beautification of ponds in the city this year. Altogether, …
NEW DELHI, May 7 – Contrary to reports about massive erosion of Majuli island, the Centre on Monday claimed that the total land mass of the river island has increased marginally. Based on satellite imagery, the land mass of the island was calculated at 520.26 sq km. The total area …
DIBRUGARH: Rapid erosion by Buri Dehing River at Tingrai under Duliajan police station in the last few days has left seven families homeless. The displaced are currently living along the edge of the Tingrai High School’s playground in makeshift shelters. The river waters continue to carry away huge chunks of …
Due to rampant illicit sand mining in Ma Oya the lands on either side of it have been eroded and washed into the stream and the sea at Kochchikade.Hence thousands of people who make a livelihood from the Oya are in dire straits.The number of acres that have been subjected …
Advanced biofuels from crop wastes are a “cleaner and greener” alternative to fossil fuels and conventional biofuels, but more research is needed to specify how much waste can be sustainably used, according to WWF’s study “Smart Use of Residues”. Advanced biofuels produced from agricultural residues have a role to play …
NEW DELHI: The rise in sea level by 1.29 millimetre every year along the Indian coastline has not caused any major erosion, science and technology and earth sciences minister Vilasrao Deshmukh informed the Rajya Sabha today. He said during Question Hour that the ministry of environment was conducting a study …
A large, global move to produce more energy from forest biomass may be possible and already is beginning in some places, but scientists say in a new analysis that such large-scale bioenergy production from forest biomass is unsustainable and will increase greenhouse gas emissions. Early suggestions that such a forest …
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today laid the foundation stone of the Assam Integrated Flood and River Erosion Risk Management Project at Jahirpur village in Gumi. The Rs 172.35 crore project at Gumi is funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). After laying the foundation stone for the project, Gogoi …
Jahirpur (Kamrup), April 9: Five thousand faces, which have watched the Brahmaputra eat away their home and hearth for the past 50 years, today stood on the river bank applauding chief minister Tarun Gogoi as he launched a flood and anti-erosion project which will probably be the largest in the …
GUWAHATI, March 13 – The State has lost an area of 5,95,155 bighas of land due to erosion by the Brahmaputra between 1971 and 2009 and according to information received from seven districts, a total of 40,246 families have been rendered homeless by erosion. Informing this while replying to a …
GUWAHATI, March 6 – Though erosion has become a major problem for Assam, it is still not considered as a natural disaster. This was disclosed by Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Prithibi Majhi in reply to a question by Abdur Rahman Ajmal (AIUDF) in the State Assembly today. The Minister …
Self-help solves irrigation problem - A Sivasagar village takes up tools to resist erosion, Baksa & Nalbari get aid for farming. Mushalpur/Nalbari, March 4: Once known as hotbeds of insurgency, Baksa and Nalbari districts in lower Assam are currently witnessing a revolution that has perhaps never been seen in the …
PURI: There is no tsunami threat to the Odisha coast. This was opined by Manmohan Mohanty, former Professor in Geology, Utkal University, at a workshop on ‘Beach Erosion in the State’ here on Thursday. The workshop comes days after some residents of Puri town had reported about buildings along the …
