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: The death toll in the Assam floods Thursday rose to 100 even as the waters started to recede in most of the 27 affected districts except Dhemaji. However, the rising water level of the Jiadhal river submerged several villages in the morning. The surging waters have also affected parts …
As per preliminary assessment done by state government agencies, Assam would need around Rs 2,500 crore “as immediate fund requirement” for restoration of infrastructure damaged by floods. This year’s flood has been the worst in Assam since 2004 and caused severe damage to state’s infrastructure and agricultural crop. Government sources …
Stressing the need for scientific river management to effectively control the annual menace of floods and erosion in the State, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that the State Government was in touch with various agencies to mitigate the problem. While stating that there has been no comprehensive scientific study …
Guwahati, July 3: Dispur is working on an ambitious project to involve China and Bangladesh in tackling the perennial flood problem in the state. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi today said he met representatives of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) during his recent visit to US and discussed the scheme. …
GUWAHATI, July 2 – The Water Resources Department is very soon going to submit a proposal to the government for a comprehensive study of the Brahmaputra involving experts from the country and outside. This was announced by the Chief Engineer of the department on Monday before protesting members of the …
United Nations The UN is monitoring the floods situation in India and Bangladesh and is ready to provide assistance to the countries where more than a million people have been displaced due to heavy monsoon rains. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that nearly 30 people …
In 2004, when Assam was struck by its last major flood, the state and Central governments announced a series of measures to strengthen control and protection measures. Several hundred crores of rupees have since been literally sunk into the Brahmaputra. Over the last two weeks, Assam has been devastated by …
The 2012 floods in June this year because of heavy rains and breaches in embankments of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries have caused colossal loss of life and property across the state. However, there are some districts that have been worst hit namely Morigaon, Sonitpur and Nowgaon affecting more than …
GUWAHATI, June 29 – Asking the State government to make drain cleaning a regular exercise in Guwahati city, the Save Guwahati Build Guwahati (SGBG) has said that the government must ensure that adequate funds are released for the purpose and also that the money is utilized properly for carrying out …
GUWAHATI: The flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim with four more deaths in different areas of the State, taking the toll to 35 even as the water levels in many rivers have started receding. About 10.80 lakh people in the State’s 2,084 villages have been affected in the …
Raging floodwaters fed by monsoon rains have inundated more than 2,000 villages in northeast India, killing at least 27 people and leaving hundreds of thousands more marooned Friday. The Indian air force was delivering food packages to people huddled on patches of dry land along with cattle and wild elephants. …
GUWAHATI: The World Bank and the Earth Institute of Columbia University, New York will provide all possible help to Assam in its fight against flood and erosion problem in the State. A high-level delegation led by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had several rounds of discussion with different agencies on key …
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 …
With floods continuing to wreak havoc from Sadiya to Dhubri and Dhemaji to Barak Valley and reports of fresh breaches in embankments coming in, thousands of people have become homeless in the State due to the current wave of floods. In the last 24 hours, 4 people died in Dibrugarh …
Jorhat, June 26: The flood situation in Assam continued to be grim with more than 20,000 people in nearly 50 villages at Dikhowmukh in Sivasagar district left inundated today after the Brahmaputra breached embankments in at least two places last night. Official sources said two children died because of the …
GUWAHATI, June 25 – The flood situation in Assam deteriorated further today as more than 1,000 villages were affected after an embankment of river Brahmaputra in worst affected Dhemaji district was breached in the early hours, reports PTI. Our Dhemaji Correspondents adds: Flood has taken a serious turn in Dhemaji …
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 …
Flood situation continues to deteriorate in the State on Monday with reports coming in of more villages being inundated by surging waters of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries in upper and lower Assam districts. Flood waters have inundated at least 100 villages in Jorhat, Dhemaji, Tinsukia, Sivasagar, Nalbari and Dibrugarh …
Chinese plans to build a major tourism project and national park in a Tibetan county have dealt a blow to hydropower lobby groups who have proposed the construction of massive dam on the Brahmaputra’s ‘Great Bend’, where the river begins its course towards India. The Chinese government announced on Saturday …
Guwahati: Assam’s flood situation deteriorated on Sunday as incessant rains breached embankments inundating several villages, vast tracts of cropland and affecting nearly two lakh people. The current deluge has so far claimed eight lives in the state and nearly two lakh people have been affected, official sources said. Altogether 14 …
