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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Plea to regularise ST encroachers
The Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has suggested that all the pre-1980 encroachments by Schuduled Tribes on forest land should be regularised by the Minsitry of Environment and Forests by the year
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Kaziranga Park selected for Millennium Award
Kaziranga National Park has been selected for the prestigious Rs 2 lakh Millennium Award of the WWF-Tiger Conservation Programme for being one of the best managed parks.
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NE's biggest timber scam to be hushed up ?
The biggest timber smuggling scam, which was detected by the Union Forest and Environment Ministry following a secret tip-off last month, may be hushed up by the Assam forest officials, as their
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Tiger poaching going on unabated at Namdapha
Namdapha Tiger Reserve and National Park in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh today has far less tigers than than of ten years ago. It has now become established that the Lizu tribesmen who
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Arrest of miscreants points to threat to national park
The Dibru-Saikhowa National Park authorities achieved a major success when it thwarted an abortive attempt at destruction of forests inside the national park recently by nabbing four miscreants along
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Protracted deforestaiton forces pachyderms into town area
More than 65 wild elephants with their young ones numbering about 12, entered an Udalguri town area near the Chandana tea estate recently and created havoc among the inhabitants.
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Central project to protect NE bamboo forests
The Centre has embarked on an innovative project on bamboo in the north-eastern region. Under the project, it had planned for intensive scientific management one lakh hectare of existing bamboo
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State of agriculture in NE unsatisfactory
Meghalaya Governor M M Jacob today lamented that the state of agriculture in the North Eastern Region is far from satisfactory and attributed it to low per capita investment in agriculture sector
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Subsistence farming bane of agriculture in NE
Twenty five long years have passes since the Indian Council for Agriculture Research Complex for North Eastern Hills Region was set up in Meghalaya to help upgrade the status of agriculture in the
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Manas Bandhu groups to protect Manas
Twenty odd groups of nature conservationists, all of them either students or villagers living in and around the famous Manas National Park, has taken upon themselves the responsibility of