With a view to augment the self-sustaining capacity of the farmers in the north-east, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Exports DEpartment Authority, an autonomous body under the Union

The State government today confirmed the death sof 52 people all over the State due to the aoutbreak of malrai and an unknown disease having similar symptoms as those of malaria and an unknown

Despite availability of sufficient funds from the Centre under the National Malaria Eradication Programme to the State every year, malaria has taken an epidemic form, particularly in the six

The eastern districts of Nagaland are facing environmental degradation as "miscreants" join hands with jhum cultivators spelling doom for the lush green forests of the area, official sources said.

In what could be termed as a major sign of disaster in the coming days, Assam, which curently has a total forest coverage of 30,708 sq km against the geographical area of 78,719 sq km , stands to

The State government as well as the ASEB are faced with huge losses of their revenues in the industrial belt of Umrangsho in North Cachar Hills district as several cement manufacturing units

In spite of the Suprme Court ban on felling of trees and its subsequent directive to the Assam State Governments to ensure a stop to the illegal trade in this regard by seizing all existing timber

Even as Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahant, while presenting the Rs 1,517 crore deficit budget in the State Assembly , admitted that the shortfall in receipts and expenditures have

Due to long absence of rainfall, large-scale deforestation and alarming increase in jhum cultivation in North Cachar Hills, where 80 per cent of the total population are agriculturists, the people

Expressing serious concern at the uncertainty over the Rs 36,00 crore Assam Gas Cracker project at Tengakhat in Dibrugath district, whose fate hangs in the balance due to the dilly-dallying tactics