Guwahati: The number of households in the state using clean fuel to meet their cooking needs has seen a mere three per cent rise in the last decade, a National Family Health Survey 4 (2015-16) reve

Guwahati: With the situation slowly improving in the flooded districts of Assam, the fear of resurgence of Japanese Encephalitis hover over the affected areas.

Guwahati: Two more residents were killed in landslides in the city on Thursday despite steps taken by the Kamrup (Metro) district administration to minimize casualties in vulnerable areas.

Nearly 90,000 people have been affected in the latest wave of floods across seven districts in Assam.

Guwahati: The Kamrup district administration on Monday launched a monitoring basis evaluation system for Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES).

Guwahati: Heavy rain in most parts of upper Assam has led to a rise in the Brahmaputra's water level, inundating four districts and over 80,500 people till Monday.

Guwahati: The Orang national park, also known as mini Kaziranga, has lost its first rhino to poachers. The carcass of the rhino bearing bullet injuries was recovered on Thursday.

Guwahati: The Co-ordination Committee of Tribal Organizations of Assam (CCTOA) has urged the Centre to protect the land rights of scheduled tribal forest dwellers in its proposed National Forest Po

Guwahati: Assam was hit by a second wave of floods on Tuesday, a week after the south-west monsoon arrived in the northeast on June 14.

GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday asked the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police to take all possible measures to protect the one-horned rhinos.