Nagaon district, which is located in the central part of the State, with 22,354 hectares of forest area, is fast becoming a hunting ground of some timber smugglers who are assisted by some officials

Remains of a 280 million-year-old forest once teeming with towering trees, that are now extinct, have been unearthed by geologists in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. The 'Gondwana forest' lay

The estimation of tiger population in the state of Assam will be done in the month of March from 15 to 21. The chief objective of estimation of tiger population is to find out the status of tiger

The 178-year old Rs 2200 crore tea industry of Assam is facing difficult times due to unprecedented drought in the early part of 1999, which resulted in substantial shortfall in the production, said

The growing consumption of "Thai Magur" fish in Assam despite a ban on it by the Government of India has become an issue of grave concern for the authorities concerned. The chief executive officer of

The acrimony between the Reliance Industries Limited and the OIL over the gas-supply agreement on the Assam Gas Cracker project has sharpened further with the Petroleum Ministry advising the OIL not

Namdapha Tiger Project, Miao, Arunachal Pradesh has completed the week-long biennial tiger census programme recentlu. About 50 wildlife activists from different organization participated in the

Hundreds of villagers have been affected, many crippled for life, as deadly fluoride poisoning in the ground water of some parts of Karbi Anglong have taken an epidemic form. The worst affected area

The rights of self-determination in protection of the land and rain-forest are being eliminated systematically by the dominant oppressive ruling clique and government illegal logging, massive

Union Minister for 'Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation Sukhdev K Singh Dhindsa has stressed the need for proper implementation of various legislations related to environment protection in the