Tremors were felt along India’s entire eastern coast after a powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake and a series of strong aftershocks struck off the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra Wednesday afternoon, triggering fears of a devastating 2004-type tsunami across the Indian Ocean region.

Indonesia said it was checking for damage and casualties, but remarkably no such reports were received for several hours, including in Aceh, the closest province and the area decimated by the disaster eight years ago.

GUWAHATI: Engineering Projects India Limited on Tuesday made a presentation before Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on the feasibility of the monorail system in Guwahati.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today launched the ‘Clean School, Clean Guwahati’ campaign at Cotton Collegiate HS School in Guwahati.

As part of this campaign, the three cleanest schools in the city will be rewarded and action will be taken against those schools which perform poorly so far as the cleanliness quotient is concerned. As schools compete with each other to emerge as the cleanest schools in the city, the district administration hopes that this campaign would create environmental awareness among school students.

A meeting of the executive body of the Botanical Society of Assam held recently expressed its strong concern at the felling of several thousand mature trees along roadsides in the name of construct

Land rights activist PV Rajagopal garners support for his campaign on the land rights of people

GUWAHATI: “Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is a member of the National Land Reforms Council and as such he should take measures for land reforms in the State,” said land rights activist PV Rajagopal in a press conference in Guwahati today.

People of Guwahati may well heave a sigh of relief as their drinking water crisis will be over, at least in the near future. Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the House today that all households in Guwahati will get 24-hour drinking water supply by the year 2016.

During Zero Hour today, Congress MLA Anjan Dutta expressed concern in the House over the acute drinking water crisis in the capital city, the deplorable condition of most roads in the city and poor garbage management. The MLA drew attention to the fact that even the MLA Hostel was facing water shortage

Guwahati, March 14: Assam will get US $ 320 million from the World Bank to improve and manage its road network.

GUWAHATI, March 13 – The State at present has two big, three medium and 1,194 small irrigation projects under construction. Four big projects and 11 medium projects have already been completed.

GUWAHATI : An amount of Rs 693.51 crore has been provided under the 2012-13 General Areas Annual Plan for the development of Guwahati. This was announced by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who also holds the Finance portfolio, on Monday when he presented the State budget for the year 2012-13.

In his budget speech the Chief Minister said, “My government is negotiating a loan of Rs 1,500 crore with Japan International Cooperative Agency (JICA) for introducing a Comprehensive Sewerage Project covering all households in major parts of Guwahati city under Phase-I.

Guwahati: Multilateral agency Asian Development Bank will extend a $81 million loan to Assam under a scheme for providing piped drinking water to the city and other projects.