Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Khroo L Pariat Vs State of Meghalaya & Others dated 25/02/2025. The applicant through a letter petition complained about dumping of muck generated during construction of road thereby causing damage to river ecology affecting aquatic life, flora and fauna. The …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Assam: PCCF MK Yadava accused of illegally clearing protected forest for Commando Battalion" appearing in the Northeast Now News dated 25.12.2023 dated 23/04/2024. The application, registered suo-moto, issue involved is about legality of diversion of 44 hectares …
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding News Item titled "Assam: PCCF MK Yadava accused of illegally clearing protected forest for Commando Battalion" appearing in the Northeast Now News dated 25.12.2023 dated 14/03/2024. In the application registered suo-moto, issue is about legality of diversion of 44 hectares of protected forest …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Assam: PCCF MK Yadava accused of illegally clearing protected forest for Commando Battalion" appearing in the Northeast Now News dated 25.12.2023 dated 23/01/2024. The original application was registered suo-moto on the basis of the news item titled …
The three districts of Barak valley region — Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi — remained the worst affected with around 450 relief camps and relief distribution centres opened and around 1.6 lakh people staying in the relief camps. The flood situation in Assam, especially the Barak valley region, remained grim on …
GUWAHATI/IMPHAL/AGARTALA: Five people drowned in the current spate of floods in Assam on Sunday, taking the death toll to 11 in the state since the first wave hit the state five days ago. Three persons drowned in Cachar district and one each in Hailakandi and Karimganj districts in Barak valley. …
Binnakandie haor (big water body cum low lying area) is one of the biggest water-bodies in Barak Valley which falls under Binnakandie development block in the Lakhipur sub division of Cachar. It is surrounded by a number of villages adjacent to the haor area among which Gosai Nagar, Krishna Nagar, …
Guwahati/Silchar/Karimganj: At least 11 persons, including five of a family, were killed and seven others injured on Wednesday in separate landslides in Assam’s Barak Valley districts of Karimganj and Hailakandi along Mizoram. In Hailakandi district, two massive landslides claimed five lives in Bilaipur and injured a six-year-old boy in Ramchandi …
A massive landslide that occurred today evening at Umling, about 43 kms from Guwahati on National Highway 40 that connects the Assam capital with Shillong, has brought traffic to a standstill, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded on both sides for several kilometres. Ri Bhoi district deputy SP (Traffic) Rymphang Pde …
Landslides on national highways in Meghalaya and Assam's Dima Hasao district have cut off the Barak Valley, Tripura and Mizoram for the last 30 hours. Reports said trees, boulders and mud came down the hills on NH-6 connecting Silchar with Shillong at Tansen in East Jayantia Hills district of Meghalaya, …
Pollution in and around the vast areas of Chittaranjan Avenue located in the south–east side of the town with heavy concentration of population is assuming serious proportion with no remedial measures in sight. According to a resident, Pranab Brahmachari, it has become difficult to have fresh air and this has …
SILCHAR: Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) has asked the people of Barak Valley to oppose the proposed multi-crore Tipaimukh hydroelectric project located at the confluence of the Barak and Tuivai rivers in Manipur, claiming it would do more harm than good to the area and its people. "The proposed 1,500-MW …
An example of wayward implementation can be seen in rural areas, far or near. At some places, poles have been laid or erected and left abandoned. At other places, high voltage wires are lying in bundles and rusting as if the scheme is non–existent. Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) …
The shut–down of coal mining in Meghalaya has badly affected the working class people of Barak Valley. Along with them, the sufferers are businessmen, owners of truck and other public carriers with serious ramification on socio–economic life. Not only are the labourers thrown out of job, they are also subjected …
The members of four different organizations named Youth Against Social Evils, Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), Sara Bharat Krishak Sabha and Sara Assam Nirman Shramik Union along with the inhabitants of Manikpur GP under Borkhola constituency staged a protest demonstration in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner …
The environmental pollution across Barak Valley is assuming serious proportion with its harmful effects on human body and people in general seem to be ignorant, deliberate as well as beyond his capability to encounter it for its elimination. Pollution in fact has its diverse dimension in this age of industrialization …
“Plant tissue culture is all set to bring about revolution in agriculture which will lead to socio–economic uplift and change the rural face of Assam”, pointed out Nilamani Sen Deka, Minister of Agriculture and Parliamentary Affairs Secretary, while inaugurating the plant tissue culture laboratory and hardening units at Bagbahar part …
When the whole world joined the chorus to save nature and protect its flora and fauna, Cachar forest division, on the other hand, remained a mute witness to the merciless axing and felling of trees in Rengti Hills under Dholai range, close to Mizoram border. Despite media reports and exposes …
SILCHAR: Barak is the main river among not less than 11 of its tributaries that meander through the length and breadth of Barak Valley after emerging from the hills of Dima Hasao, Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura. Barak, the lifeline, has been identified as becoming increasingly polluted due to several factors. …
SILCHAR : The consumption of tobacco and its related products are one of the causes of the dreaded disease cancer and the best way to keep oneself away from its spectre is to avoid the bad habit, pointed out Dr Ravi Kannan, eminent onco-surgeon and director of Cachar Cancer Hospital …
- 100KW capacity plant will soon come up on the campus, biogas unit also on the cards. Silchar: The National Institute of Technology, Silchar, will soon start work on producing clean solar energy to meet its energy needs. The institute was converted into an NIT from its earlier incarnation, the …
