Free insurance policies to students for dengue
Students of nine schools of Kamrup district received free insurance policy of Rs 20,000 for dengue under the collaboration of a social-based organisation Drishtee and CAFE India under the Behtar India
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Water Resources Dept to study Brahmaputra
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.
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Gogoi seeks Rs 11,316-cr assistance to State
GUWAHATI, July 2 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today urged Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to immediately release Rs 11,316 crore as immediate and medium term assistance to the state to bail out the State
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Man-made factors behind city landslides
GUWAHATI, June 29 – The landslides taking place in the city hills are mainly man-made. The soil of the city hills lack the binding capacity and due to the greed and ignorance of the land hungry people
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Govt must find permanent solution to floods: SGBG
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
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Concern over unabated killing of marooned wildlife
GUWAHATI, June 29 – Expressing grave concern over the unabated killing of marooned wildlife near human settlements during the current wave of floods, public activist Prof Deven Dutta today questioned what
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Flood affects 2.22 lakh people in Sonitpur dist
TEZPUR, June 29 – Altogether 2.22 lakh people of 243 villages have been affected by the flood in Sonitpur district and 1.77 lakh people are taking shelter in 100 relief camps in different places of the
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Bid to boost agri output in NE region
NEW DELHI, June 28 – The North Eastern States has been sanctioned Rs 100 crore under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) to boost agriculture production in the region. All the eight north-eastern
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Japanese Encephalitis claims 3 in Assam
Guwahati, June 29 (IANS): The deadly Japanese Encephalitis has claimed three lives in Assam in the past few weeks, health officials here said on Thursday. So far, one person has died in Sivsagar district
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Flood situation in State worsens
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
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Plans afoot to fence Bahini, Bharalu, Mora Bharalu
GUWAHATI, June 25 – Plans are afoot to cage the Bahini, Bharalu and Mora Bharalu rivers with 12-foot-high iron fences on both their banks so as to save them from being used as dustbins and thus to ensure