The Assam State bio-control Laboratory, Assam (SBCL, Assam) of the Department of Agriculture, has successfully released for the first time Trichogramma japonicum, a biocontrol agent produced by the

In a less than three months from now power shortage could well be history in the North-east. Not only that the region will be in a position to export power to elsewhere in India and to neighbouring

The Assam Government has gathered evidence suggesting that several forest department officials are either directly or indirectly involved in massive timber felling despite a Supreme Court's ban in

The Union Ministry of Rural Development yesterday released Rs 154 crore for rural development projects for Assam for the fiscal 2002-03 as the second installment of Sampurna Gramin Rozgar Yojana

A 3-member Central team constituted by the Union Ministry of Tribal Welfare, will be on a 4-day visit to Assam from August 19 for an on-the-spot study of the situation, following the eviction drive

The North East Chambers of Commerce and Industry (NECCI) is encouraging planters and others in Assam state to start commercial cultivation of herbal plants - both medicinal and aromatic - which grow

"Along with species of birds and animals, amphibians are also in the endangered list in Barak valley", said Grosselet Olivier, a naturalists from France-based NGO, International School and Studies of

South Assam, including Barak valley, has been in the world cancer map for a long time. According to some unconfirmed sources, one out of every five houses has a cancer victim in that region. The

The Assam Government has ordered an inquiry into the breaching of nine embankments in the State during the current wave of floods. The decision of instituting a departmental inquiry was taken

India's northeast and neighbouring Himalayan countries are overdue for one or more massive earthquakes that could imperil millions of people and cause unprecedented loss of life, a seismologist