Assam Minister of state for Fisheries, Etuwa Munda said that lessees of beel and river fisheries have been sensitized to take up modern beel management techniques on the lines of the Bangladesh Model

Close on the heels of the Supreme Court verdict directing the cola majors and ten other companies to pay fines for advertising their products on the rocks of the Rohtang Pass to woo customers,

Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav said yesterday that there was a fear of famine in 2007 in two northeastern states of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh when bamboo

Encroachment of reserve forest land in Sonitpur district in Assam is going on merrily at a time when " Protect Forests, Protect Nature " is a commonly used slogan by nature lovers and various non -

In the unprecedented move, the Assam Human Rights Commission has decided to hold a public hearing on December 27 on the botched Vitamin-A programme that had claimed several lives in the state. The

The relevant Forest Regulations Act might be amended, or a new Act enacted to protect the rights of the Adivasis or tribals in forest areas, said Dilip Singh Bhuria, Chairman, Scheduled Areas and

It is estimated that Assam has a production potential of 4.04 lakh tonnes of fish annually from the available resources by adopting standardised technologies. This production potential could be

The Assam public Health Department has taken necessary steps for mitigation of fluoride from drinking water in some parts of Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts wherein the presence of fluoride in

Less visitors, depleting funds, less animals and high mortality rate. This is the story today of the Assam State Zoo - cum - Botanical Garden in the city, set away back in 1957 at the Hengrabari

Army and paramilitary forces were today called out to help rescue operations of marooned people in the worst ever flood in two decades in four districts of Manipur where two boys were washed away in