JORHAT, Nov 12: More than 100-strong herd of wild elephants which has been terrorizing villagers in upper Assam for the last few years is back at the Nimati-Hatisal and Kokilamukh areas along the Brahmaputra here. Villagers, apprehensive of the herd ravaging the ripe paddy, are keeping a night long vigil along the embankment in North Jorhat to head off the herd.
JORHAT, Nov 12: With much fanfare and high expectations, the Rs 1.7 crore National Fishery Seed Farm was opened at Jalukonibari in the district in 1986. Today, the place stand in ruins with dense overgrowth covering the 120 bighas of land allotted for the purpose. Non-feasibility of the project initiated during the AGP regime, marked the end even before it began.
Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable death in the world today. Tobacco kills a third to half of all people who use it, on an average 15 years prematurely, a press release stated.
A two-day seminar on danger of construction of big river dams was organised by NEEDS, a Jorhat-based NGO, at the Fishery Training Centre here on October 10-11.
FORTY-FOUR people died of Japanese encephalitis, a viral infection, at the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh on July 28. The same day another 68 patients suffering from the viral disease were admitted to the hospital that receives patients from across the state. T R Borborah, principal of the medical college, confirmed the deaths. Health officials in Assam said the disease has
The National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), Nagpur, has undertaken an ambitious project to assess the State
The efforts of the State to overcome the adverse impact of the drought-like situation have perhaps bearing fruits. About 88 per cent of the targeted 18 lakh hectares of sali paddy area of the State has so far been covered with seedling transplantation. It is expected that the State will at the most be able to cover 90 per cent of the targeted sali area by the end of the current month.
