Massive plans are in the pipelines for the protection and preservation of geophysical and traditionally rich cultural heritage of the world's largest river island Majuli in Jorhat district,

Under the Central Government's new scheme for total electrification of 85,000 villages in the country within 2010, only 165 tribal villages of the north eastern region have been selected for total

About 58000 hectares of reserved forest land in north Assam has been encroached by Arunachal Pradesh on the one hand and by local people on the other. Though north Assam has been enriched naturally

The Government of Assam has finally given effect to the Assam Health Services (Establishments) Act, 1993 from August 25 to keep a strict vigil on the functioning of all hospitals, nursing homes,

Forests in south Kamrup, adjacent to Meghalaya border are quite well-known as a timber belt, specially of the valuable 'sal' variety of timber. Here profuse natural regeneration of 'sal' species

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has taken a serious view of the wanton destruction of bamboo forests for two of Asia's larger paper mills, namely the Hindustan Paper Mill at Jagiroad in Morigaon

The Assam Government has launched an ambitious multi-crore-rupee veterinary project for producing 29 lakh litres of milk annually by 2004 with the assistance of the World

The Kamrup East Forest Division has undertaken a determined drive against encroachers in reserve forest areas in and around the city and has already demolished 250 houses so far in Fatasil-Ambari

A veritable gold rush for pirating of bio-products including,human cell lines from the north-eastern region is the latest craze among the developed countries. Plant varieties, medicinal plants,

The tremendous pollution created by the oil wells that have been dug by ONGC, has threatened the very existence of Lakua tea garden which is situated near Simaluguri. The tea gardens belong to the