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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NE States urged to show political will to protect pachyderms
Participants of a seminar on man and elephant conflict in North East India, organised by the Co-ordinating Organisation of the Non-Governmental Organisation involved in Conservation of Forest,
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Deforestation posing threat to Bijni
It is a wide barren tract in what were once green, luxuriant forests under social forestry, in Bijni (Assam). Apart from this environmental evil, some malpractices are being carried out right the
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Mobile fish health clinic
Under the second phase of the 'mobile fish health clinic' programme of State Fisheries department, the districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji were covered recently. The Fisheries department is
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Wildlife rehabilitation centre at KNP soon
The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), as a part of the wild rescue programme, is setting up the first wildlife rehabilitation center of the northeastern region near the Kaziranga National Park (KNP).
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Environment awareness campaign
Being a Regional Resource Agency, Assam Science Society (ASS) organised a preprogramme workshop on 'National Environment Awareness Campaign (NEAC)-2001-02' at Handique Girls College, Guwahati on
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Centre urged to save wildlife sanctuaries
A group of animal-loving people of Nagaon district, demanded in a memorandum submitted to Union Home Minister, Sri L K Advani to save wildlife sanctuaries - Laokhowa wildlife sanctuary, Orang
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Centre urged to tackle elephant menace
Herds of wild elephants are causing havoc in different parts of Assam due to unabated deforestation and immediate steps need to be taken to prevent this menace, said legislator Sarbananda Sonowal in
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Exercises in futility
Coinciding with the recently held Dihing-Patkai Festival, representatives of the Assam Government, the Forest Department and NGOs had got together under the aegis of the Assam Science, Technology and
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'Birds are killed in Jatinga, suicide a myth'
Jatinga, a tiny hamlet in Assam's North Calchar Hills district, acquired fame for its 'suicidal birds but environmentalists now contend that the birds do not die on their own but are killed by the
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Child mortality rate in State highest
It's a matter of serious concern that Assam enjoys the dubious distinction of having the highest ' under-5 ' child mortality rate in the country with the figure put at 142 per one thousand of people.