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.
IIT Guwahati has developed an emergency management information system for Assam, a web-based tool to aid the disaster management authorities at the block level by equipping them with all kinds of information for rescue and relief.
This was revealed today by the head of the Centre for Environment, IIT Guwahati, Chandan Mahanta, at a programme on Media Orientation Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduc
Driven by the responsibility of minimising the environmental hazards, especially emitted by the construction sector, Shine Realtors Private Limited, a city-based real estate developers, today laid the foundation for the first-ever green housing complex in the North East region in city's Gotanagar area.
"This would be the first such complex in the region, which is expected to be completed by Dec
The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) today sent a huge bundle of papers containing signatures of one lakh people of the State, who want all mega dams in the Northeast to be stopped from coming up, to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by post, along with a memorandum.
The KMSS today held a meeting in front of Cotton College here where its general secretary Akhil Gogoi said that they had collected
A dengue fever awareness camp was held on Monday in the premises of New Guwahati Wagon Maintenance Depot at the initiative of the Divisional Mechanical Engineer of New Guwahati, PK Hira.
The meeting was attended by the Zonal Malaria Officer Dr Ramen Hazarika and SDMHO Dr Komaril Sharma. Both the doctors described in detail the dengue fever and its prevention.
In a novel initiative, the local tribal community has joined hands with WWF-India and the Forest Department for restoration of degraded animal corridors linking Kaziranga National Park with the Karbi Anglong hills.
The restoration drive seeks to secure lost habitat comprising degraded forests through afforestaion, and the Panbari-Dolamora corridor critical to elephant movement from Kaziranga ha
