An 82-member special protection force trained to combat poachers and understand animal behaviour was deployed in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) on Sunday.

The overall flood situation in the State continued to be critical on Thursday, even though the number of rivers flowing above danger level has come down from 10 to 5 in the last 24 hours.

Special rhino protection force on anvil to curb poaching

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.

Assam will soon introduce Right to Health Services; where in free healthcare services would be given to all poor people, said state's chief minister, Tarun Gogoi.

North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) has commissioned a five–MW solar power plant at Monarchak in Tripura, which will be the biggest and the first of its kind in northeast India.

Within days of the year’s first killing of a rhino at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, carcasses of two more rhinos have been found, their horns sawed off, authorities said on Sunday.

Elections come and go. But the situation of the flood affected people who have lost their land and properties to the yearly floods of the state remain unchanged.

The agricultural land is shrinking at a rapid pace across Assam.

The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday has given the State Government a three months time to complete the process of handing over the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th additions of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP)

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