The Government of Assam has gone public for a loan of Rs 80 crore to finance "productive development programmes and projects" to be implemented in the State, at an interest rate of 12.15 per cent per

The much vaunted sack craft paper industry in Dhing in Nagaon district, which was a brainchild of the then Industries Minister Digen Bora, has cost the State Government a cool Rs 11 crore since 1987

The officials of Assam Plains Tribes Development Authority (APTDA) had siphoned off Rs 2.75 crore during April 1, 1993 to April 30, 1996 in the name of supply of teaching-aid material to various

The National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (ICAR) , Lucknow, and Assam (Bhorelli) Anglers Association is going to organize an awareness campaign to save threatened fishes in the surroundings of

A meeting on the wind monitoring programme of the Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES) of Government of India was held in Guwahati city on February 27, a press release said. The

The Namrup Thermal Power Station (NTPS) , the first of its kind in the entire northeastern region, with which industrialization set in at Namrup, an unknown slumbering village till early sixties, is

There are a far greater number of honeycombs in the wilds of Assam than in the Sunderbans, a joint research conducted by a team of experts from Austrian and the Gauhati University has found. The

The Environment and Energy Ministry of Costa Rica temporarily halted mining for 90 days at three sites in the country after inspectors of its regulatory body, the National environmental Technical

People of South Bihpuria have urged the State Government once again to initiate necessary measures to save the area from the continuous erosion of Dujikrong river. The erosion and high floods washed

There is no possibility of opening the flood-ravaged Kaziranga National Park to tourists from November 1 since nearly 200 roads inside the park and 178 km of the main road have been severely