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 …
Majuli, the largest inhabited river island bounded by the river Subansiri to the north and mighty Brahmaputra River to the south, is one of the subdivisions of the Jorhat district, Assam. Erosion of the island is a continuous process since historical times and posses a significant concern. The present approach …
Sivasagar, Sept. 27: The Sivasagar forest department has taken up a plan to make Panidihing sanctuary, a hotspot for local and migratory birds, free of largescale cattle intrusion and also augment milk production in the district. The plan aims to free the sanctuary from all kinds of
Amidst escalating tension over construction of mega dams in the upper reaches of Brahmaputra River, an Inter-Ministerial Expert Group (IMEG) after preliminary probe has found that there is no diversion of the water by China, as yet.
ITANAGAR, Sept 13: Civil society organizations of the Northeast have appealed to both China and India to stop all existing and proposed dam construction activities on Siang River, which is known as Yarlung and Tsangpo in China and Brahmaputra in Assam and suggested declaration of these rivers as Heritage Rivers. …
Dibrugarh, Sept 13: More than 300 families have been displaced by floods in Lahowal Legislative Assembly Constituency in Dibrugarh district. Following incessant rains in the last week, homes and land of the people under the constituency were inundated. The people have taken shelter on highlands of saporis or tea estates …
Even as the rising water-level of the Brahmaputra entered and inundated vast portions of the 840-sq km Kaziranga National Park in Assam in the past four days, for the authorities it has come as a blessing. A
As the city here expands to become a business hub of the region due to growing trade and commerce, leading organisations and intellectuals here have felt that the second national waterway of India
Dibrugarh, Sept. 12: The Assam government has drawn up a comprehensive plan to rehabilitate 40 families who have been residing at Gorpara crematorium for 10 years now, government sources today said. Eleven other families who had lost their land will be also rehabilitated at Hatiali, 10km from Gorpara. Around two …
10 villages inundated JORHAT, Sept 7: As many as 5,000 people of Namoni Majuli have been affected by the rising waters of the Brahmaputra today. Flood waters have till now inundated over 10 villages in the island. Official sources said no report of the flood-displaced people have been recieved so …
Jorhat, Aug. 31: A Rs 55.04-crore project will supply purified water of the Brahmaputra to Jorhat homes and wash away fears of arsenic contamination in every gulp. DoNER minister Bijoy K. Handique had announced the project after he took charge of the ministry in May last year. The plan was …
The report by Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses is premised on the fact that India is facing a serious water resource problem and is expected to become 'water stressed' by 2025 and 'water scarce' by 2050. It raises fundamental questions about the forces driving water demand and the political …
Why is the river so notorious? Assam has lost about 170,000 hectares to the Brahmaputra and its major tributaries between 1990 and 2007. These are mostly prime land such as tea gardens and the economic loss is phenomenal. The problem is the Brahmaputra transports heavy sediment load—about 800 million tonnes …
