Kalimpong, Dec. 2: Around 300 Buddhists began a 23-day-long padayatra from a monastery in Darjeeling today to spread a message on clean and green Himalayas.

Attired in traditional maroon gowns, nuns and monks of the Drukpa lineage chanted Buddhist hymns as they, and their followers, walked in single file through the streets of the hill town.

Shillong, Nov.

Guwahati, Nov.

Guwahati, Nov. 28: The Assam forest department will organise a public hearing before burning the rhino horns lying in state forest treasuries, to ensure full transparency in the disposal process.

The public hearing will be held on December 14 on the Assam Forest School campus at Jalukbari here.

The principal chief conservator of forests, V.K.

Jorhat, Nov. 28: Orang National Park will sign an MoU with the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) shortly to work jointly to minimise the increasing incidents of conflict between the Royal Bengal tigers and humans in recent times.

The park has witnessed a rise in tiger population, which has resulted in the big cats straying out of the smallest national park in the state frequently.

Guwahati, Nov. 26: Assam has extended a helping hand to Meghalaya to arrest the population explosion in the neighbouring state.

Meghalaya has recorded the highest population growth among the northeastern states with a decadal growth rate of 30.65 per cent against the national average of 21.54 per cent.

- Colour leaf chart, mechanised cultivation, training sessions for better returns

The Nagaon agriculture department will introduce the concept of leaf colour chart among farmers this boro season, which starts next month.

Nearly 1,000 colour charts will be distributed among the farmers of the district under the centrally sponsored National Food Security Mission (NFSM).

A leaf colour chart

Dhubri, Nov.

Silchar, Nov.

- Centrally-sponsored project at AAU department explores use of by-product
Jorhat: A project sponsored by the central department of science and technology at Assam Agricultural University (AAU) to explore the use of flyash in the agricultural sector has shown