GUWAHATI: Protesting against the poaching of rhinos at Kaziranga National Park, Asomiya Yuba Mancha (AYM) today burnt the effigy of Forest Minister Rokybul Hussain and demanded his resignation.

GUWAHATI: Floods and erosion are a perennial problem in Assam that have wreaked havoc on the people of the State, especially in rural areas and who live by the Brahmaputra and its tributaries.

DIGBOI: A discussion on the topic ‘Adapting to Environmental and Climate Change in the Eastern Brahmaputra River Basin: Priorities for Research, Advocacy and Intervention’ has been successfully hel

ITANAGAR: Indiscriminate extraction of boulders and sand gravel from Debing river bed at Debing hill portion in East Siang district is forcing the river to change its course which may pose great threat to the people living at downstream in near future.

The Debing river (known as Rajakhana river in its downstream) is changing its course towards its right side which is affecting a large portion of fertile land under Ruksin circle and also posing serious threat to the Beat Out Post (BOP) of Arunachal Police Battalion, sources informed.

GUWAHATI: In a bid to fasten the Environment Clearance for certain projects in Assam, Government of India has constituted two autonomous bodies through a notification.

If a high intensity earthquake hits Assam, Guwahati city will be mostly affected but the affect of the earthquake will be devastating especially in the areas perched on the small and large hills do

GUWAHATI: Seeking solution to the burning problems of the tribal community of the state, which has been long neglected by the government, various tribal organisations under the banner of All Assam Tribal Sangha (AATS) organised a meeting in the city today. The participating organisations included All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU), Tiwa Students’ Union (TSU), Mishing Students’ Union (MSU), Karbi Students’ Union (KSU) amongst others. A press conference was also organised after the end of the meeting.

At the meeting to be held between the Assam Government and the Planning Commission on May 7, the State Government will seek Rs 16,050 crore as Plan allocation for the fiscal 2013–14.

Over 600 pigs have died from swine fever and about 12,200 have been infected in the past two months in Mizoram, officials said here on Wednesday.

“The endemic swine fever caused the death of as many as 470 pigs in Aizawl district alone while remaining 130 died in other districts. Over 12,200 pigs have been infected with the disease,” a Mizoram animal husbandry and veterinary department official told reporters. The northeastern state shares border with Myanmar and Bangladesh.

A two–day workshop on World Bank aided Assam State Roads Project drew to a close at NEDFI House recently.

The road experts and engineers were one in their opinion that the ambitious project would bring about a total transformation in the surface communication in the State. The road experts dwelt at length on the modernisation of the road policies, engineering practices, asset management system, maintenance, institutional and human resource development, streamlining and computerisation of the key business process of PWD, safe corridor demonstration programme, capacity building in PWD.