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 …
GUWAHATI, Sept 28 – Peculiar geo-morphological condition of the Himalayan foothill areas have made the Dhemaji district rivers deposit sand, and, in some cases some amounts of silt, on their beds. Thus, they have developed the tendency to change their course said the Dhemaji district engineers of the Water Resources …
AHMEDABAD: Picture this: Unusually heavy rains triggers rapid soil erosion. Huge portions of highways sink and unexpected floods wash away railway tracks - the city is marooned. These grim scenarios could well turn to a reality if precautionary measures are not taken on time, when infrastructural is being readied. A …
Gauhati High Court today directed the Brahmaputra Board to submit a status report on steps taken for the protection of Majuli island from floods and erosion. The board will have to furnish the report before the court on or before November 22. The interim order was passed by a division …
Realising that illegal mining from the Ravi in Kathua district is posing a threat to the road and rail bridges on the Jammu-Pathankot road, the Kathua Deputy Commissioner has imposed Section 144 of the CrPC near the river. Zahida Khan, Deputy Commissioner, Kathua, told The Tribune over the phone that …
The overpowering stench of municipal waste hits one hard on entering Boragaon. Women and children from the nearby squatter’s colony squabble over the garbage unloaded by trucks from Guwahati, the sprawling business hub of northeastern India and a million-plus city of Assam. A sole adjutant stork, an endangered bird, meditates …
GUWAHATI: Work on the 9th Agricultural Census, 2010-11 will finally begin in Assam towards the end of September. The Agricultural Census is conducted in India every five years to prepare statistical data for planning in the agri sector. While work on the Agricultural Census, 2010-11 began in other parts of …
Guwahati, the sprawling million plus city of north eastern India has grown at the cost of vital wetlands. While the rich legally bought the water-bodies, the poor ‘illegally’ encroached on them. With major storm water basins in the city disappearing, every monsoon, Guwahati reels under flashfloods. The June 22 police …
MALDA/BALURGHAT, 1 SEPT: With erosion wrecking havoc, the only school under Hiranandapur gram panchayat at Bhutni islet, Munilaltola Primary School with 200-odd students, is facing serious consequences. On Wednesday, the village education committee (VEC) had proposed to put the school on sale. Mr Ramprabesh Mandal, the chairman of the district …
BERHAMPUR: Along with the rain, sea waves have again posed threat to villages on the Ganjam district coast. During last two days, two coastal villages witnessed the fury of catabolic action of sea waves. Arjyapalli and Podempeta in Chatrapur block of the district are inhabited by fishermen. On Monday night, …
Many rail bridges in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are facing threat of being damaged due to illegal quarrying of stone and other building materials from the riverbeds by the mining mafia. Illegal mining has increased in these areas due to steep rise in price of building material. …
1.93-lakh families registered for the central scheme Two lakh sixty five thousand and ninety five persons in the district have been issued job cards for the centrally sponsored Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS), for which 1,92,995 families have registered, District Collector C.N. Maheshwaran has said. Speaking at a …
Agartala: Experts suggested to carry out comprehensive study for conservation and management of Rudrasagar Lake, only lake palace in Northeast and other potential water bodies besides, strengthening a geo-information system based data and knowledge centre to facilitate mapping and policy planning of resource-potentials of Tripura. A three day national seminar …
On a hot morning, there was an unusual bustle around the temple at Velingirayanpettai village in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. There were around 50 people gathered under a tree outside the temple. A kilometre or two down the road were vanloads of policemen clustered around a canopy. People from …
Flashflood triggered by incessant rainfall and hilly water claimed four lives in Bandarban in the last few days. Flash flood in the district damaged several hundreds houses and inundated crop land and disrupted road communication. Flood water has started to recede from low-lying areas but several thousands of people still …
Climate Change is a significant change in temperature, wind patterns and precipitation that occurs over a long period of time. Some of these changes occur in cycles over decades, hundreds, thousands and millions of years; some could be random occurrences. Both, Global Warming and the opposite phenomenon Global Cooling, result …
Mumbai’s latest unwelcome maritime visitor, MT Pavit, could cause severe erosion of the iconic Juhu beach if it is not towed away soon, warn marine science experts. It might be recalled that the unmanned MT Pavit was found grounded near Mumbai’s Juhu-Versova beach early on July 30. The Panama-flagged oil …
GUWAHATI: BJP MLA Ranjit Kumar Das has expressed concern over the dam in Kurisu river in Bhutan and in this regard he has written a letter to the Chief Minister of Assam. Talking to The Sentinel, Das said, “The dam in Kurisu river in Bhutan constructed for power production is …
Wild horses on the vast rangelands of Wyoming can continue to roam free, for now, after the U.S. government's Bureau of Land Management postponed a planned roundup, horse advocates said on Tuesday. The roundup was due to start on August 16 to reduce horse overpopulation on more than 700,000 acres …
Soil erosion below the railway tracks led to the derailment of the Guwahati-Bangalore Express and the subsequent collision with the Azimgunj Fast Passenger in Malda district of West Bengal on Sunday evening, a preliminary inquiry has revealed. Railway officials probing the collision said a major tragedy was averted as the …
The sand slipped off at Vaitaran Bridge on Western railway on Vaitarna Creek due to heavy rainfall of last two days washed away the railway tracks at Vaitaran on Westerns railway on Monday morning. Thousands of daily commuters who reside between Virar and Palghar as well as long distance train …
