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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Steps to sensitise public over fluoride contamination reviewed
Water contaminated with fluoride has been found in deep tubewells in Mathgharia in the city and Changsari in Kamrup district. To prevent the drinking of fluoride contaminated water, the Public Health
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100 children die of small pox: SYWA
Shajee Youth Welfare Association (SYWA) in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh claimed that at least 100 children have died of small pox at Padi, Tato and Mechuka Reas in Maniogong circle of West Siang
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Encroachments to be cleared from city river channels
The Kamrup (Metropolitan) district Administration is planning to clear all the encroachments on the major river channels and drains of the city by May 15 and the massive drive launched for the same
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GMCH violating pollution norms of waste disposal
The Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) has been found violating almost all pollution control norms in regard to disposal of various types of wastes including sensitive biomedical waste (BMW),
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Over 3m hectare flood-prone area in State
Assam has a total flood prone area of between 3.15 million hectares and 3.82 million hectares (m ha) of its total geographical area of 7.85 m ha. It has so far only 1.64 m ha of its area protected
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Task force defends role of embankments
The Task Force for Flood Management and Erosion Control has defended the role of the embankments in providing protection from floods. It has recommended that the Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) Code
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Measures initiated to protect wildlife
In view of the increasing incidents of killing, sale/trade of wildlife and their bodies in markets, the district magistrate of newly-formed Baksa district in Assam, Dr A U Choudhury a naturalist has
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East Kameng fearing another famine
Panic and fear for rat menace and imminent famine is visible in the faces of the people of East Kameng district in Meghalaya after reports of large-scale bamboo flowering have been received from
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Vanishing wetlands compounding city flood problem
It's a direct result of man's greed for land that we face waterlogging and artificial floods. The hub of the Guwahati city's waterlogging scene, Zoo Road and neighbouring areas, is a part of what
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Brahmaputra ranks 4th in historic floods
According to a study carried out by the UNESCO under its International Hydrological Decade programme, the Brahmaputra ranks fourth in order amongst the rivers of the world in respect of known maximum