The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
GUWAHATI: A formal meeting between the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) and the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) and the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) on the controversial 2,000MW Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Power Project was held here today for the first time. An eleven-member team of the KMSS …
GUWAHATI, Aug 26 – The water level of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries maintained a rising trend today with five districts of Assam reeling under the third wave of floods, reports PTI. Heavy and incessant rainfall in the catchment areas during the last few days has led the water level …
Aug. 16: Garbage dumped by people on the banks of the Brahmaputra is leading to pollution of the surroundings around the rock-cut sculptures of Vishnu Janardan on the river bank near Sukreswar temple, said officials of the Guwahati circle of the Archaeological Survey of India. These beautifully engraved life-size sculptures …
The State’s expert committee formed in 2009 to study the impacts of the proposed Chinese diversion of the Brahmaputra on the Assam part of the river has become redundant. It failed to lay its hand on the data concerning the Chinese part of the river. According to chairman of the …
With the conservation effort in India still tiger-centric, the threatened birds need Right at the start, this book sets the argument in motion by rapping the conservation effort in the country across the knuckles. Most of the action, it notes, is tiger-centric, with little attention paid to other taxa. Threatened …
Developed by BITS Pilani, it can be operated by any person Scientists at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) in Pilani have developed a new bio-sensor device to detect arsenic content in drinking water. The device can be operated by a layman and is based on a rare …
The district agriculture department will distribute free vegetable and paddy seeds to flood-hit farmers in Jorhat district. It has also set up community nurseries to grow seedlings for sali crop. District agricultural official (Jorhat) Jyotish Chandra Deka told this correspondent today that 250 packets of vegetable seeds have arrived here …
SIVASAGAR: With the rising water levels of mighty Brahmaputra and its tributaries causing unprecedented havoc in Assam, ONGC conducted relief operation to help the flood affected people of the State. ONGC has so far taken a slew of initiatives to give respite to the people hit hard by nature’s fury. …
A study of the Assam part of the Brahmaputra was last conducted in 1996 GUWAHATI: The main reason for the perennial flood and land erosion problems in Assam is the Brahmaputra but the State Government has failed to conduct a detailed study of the behaviour of the river since 1996 …
A s the silver waters of the Kishanganga rush through this north Kashmir valley, Indian labourers are hard at work on a hydropower project that will dam the river just before it flows across one of the world's most heavily militarised borders into Pakistan. The hum of excavators echoes through …
Ironically, flooding is vital for Kaziranga’s ecology. But as governments dither on an integrated river management plan, a sediment-laden Brahmaputra is killing too many too often. Jay Mazoomdaar and Ratnadip Choudhury report on a recurring tragedy ITS GAZE transfixed on the busy road, the hog deer was shivering. Shoulder-deep in …
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam, which had shown signs of improvement last week, took a turn for the worse on Wednesday following heavy rainfall in some parts of the state in the past 48 hours. Official sources said over 75 villages in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts have been inundated …
Climate change effects are likely to continue to cause intense flood and drought in Assam. The recent unprecedented floods, accompanied by the erosion of the Brahmaputra, has brought the influencing factors of flood and erosion processes in Assam into focus. First, recent research indicates the likely impact of climate change, …
India's annual monsoon has claimed 109 lives since rains started in June and left at least 400,000 people homeless in the northeastern state of Assam, in a tragedy experts say was made worse by corruption and poor management of the Brahmaputra River. A senior member of the Assam Human Rights …
India's annual monsoon has claimed 109 lives since rains started in June and left at least 400,000 people homeless in the northeastern state of Assam, in a tragedy experts say was made worse by corruption and poor management of the Brahmaputra River. A senior member of the Assam Human Rights …
Deluge Worse Than The One In 2004, Govt Bracing For Another Wave, Pegs Damage At 11,316cr Guwahati: Assam is no stranger to floods. But this deluge is the worst it has seen in many years. The first wave of floods—from April to June—claimed 126 lives. More than 700 animals in …
New Delhi: Everything about the Brahmaputra is so grand it seems inevitable that the river’s fury would be larger than life. Experts say the river is prone to flooding due to natural reasons. Yet it’s possible to tackle its fury to an extent. The basin’s topography, water flow and seismicity …
The Assam government today renewed its plea to the Centre for funding a project to strengthen 3,340 kms of “vulnerable” embankments along the Brahmaputra and several of its tributaries. Stating that the rise in the level of river beds increases the risk of floods, state water resource minister Rajib Lochan …
Many Run Over By Trucks While Fleeing. It’s a wildlife catastrophe. The flood toll at the Kaziranga national park has risen to 573, with several animals being run over on NH-37 by speeding trucks in the last one week while trying to reach elevated ground to escape the Brahmaputra’s swirling …
Yet again, floods have caused death and destruction across Assam. A hundred lives have been lost, more than two million homes came under water, scores of houses have been swept away, and hundreds of cattle have perished. We saw the Prime Minister and Congress president touring parts of Assam, looking …
