The people in Adabari and its surronding areas have at last found an assurance of relief from environmental pollution in the area, through a Assam High Court directive issued to Ashoka Silicate and

According to a report of the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradoon, the country has lost 18.4 lakh kilometre of forest land. North east retains 18 per cent of its forested area. The

There are reports of rising cases of asthma and TB at Mankachar due to large-scale pollution in border town of Bangladesh, in Dhubri district of Assam, created by nearly 10 cashewnut processing

After successful motivation by members of Kahibari, Laharipura, Langdangpara and Barangbari Manas Bandhu Groups (MBGs), 18 poachers and illegal tree fellers of Manas Biosphere Reserve publicly vowed

Altogether 272 rhinos, 124 elephants, 19 tigers and 17 leopards have died in the wildlife sanctuaries in Assam, including the Kaziranga and Manas national parks in the period between 1997 and

The North Eastern Council has constituted a high power coordination committee comprising members from the Centre and north-eastern states to reduce the impact of natural calamities in the region. The

The World Bank being fully satisfied at the performance of the ARIASP (Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Services Project) schemes being executed by the Agriculture, Fisheries, Veterinary,

At least 50 people have died to starvation in Meghalaya as thousands of tribes people were left jobless following the closure of the timber industry. Closure of the timber trade meant a loss of jobs

The Government of Assam has formulated a new set of "Assam Wood-based Industries (Establishment and Regulation) Rules, 1999" to become effective very soon, in the matter of regulating timber trade in

The Assam Pollution Control Board (APCB) has sounded the alarm bells about the growing pollution of Guwahati's "water regime" comprising riverine, underground and of the waterbodies in and around the