GUWAHATI, Aug 22 – The constant practice of raising the levels of the city roads has led to the sinking of the plinth levels of the houses located along these roads and water logging even is some n

Guwahati: The North East Dialogue Forum (NEDF) today organized a Civil Society Consultation on the First Draft Recommendations for the State of Assam’s Strategy and Action Plan on Climate Change.

At least seven people were swept away and thousands displaced by flash floods in Assam Monday, officials said, adding that army soldiers and Indian Air Force helicopters were being deployed to resc

SILCHAR : Tripura was a princely state during the British-raj and gateway to Shillong and Calcutta through Sylhet and Commilla, now in Bangladesh. Tripura was annexed to India in 1949. During the pre-independent days, the Maharaja of Tripura did not permit the Britishers to open tea gardens in Tripura. JC Das, a prominent personality in the tea industry, said most of the tea gardens in Tripura were opened by the land lords of undivided Bengal and ICS officers of Bengal as well as professors of Murari Chand College, Sylhet.

The Centre is inching towards signing an MoU on wildlife cooperation with Bhutan.

Assam’s bamboo sector is all set to notch another achievement, with a local manufacturing unit gearing up to produce high-density scrimber boards.

GUWAHATI, Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is no longer in the list of World Heritage Sites in Danger.

SHILLONG: “Meghalaya is one of the States in India which falls under vulnerable  Zone-V of high seismicity and bamboo can play a vital role in appropriate housing and construction to its suitability and availability”, according to Kankana Narayan Dev of  Bambu-N-Man, a bamboo design consultancy of Guwahati, Assam.

GUWAHATI, July 26 – The Assam Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Board (AUWS&SB) is implementing an augmentation scheme with an additional Central assistance.