The Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) has reiterated its claim that 20.52 sq km area of erosion-hit Majuli river island has been reclaimed.

Due to the flash floods, vast agriculture land in the hill areas had been washed away, while those in the plains had also been damaged.

Based on a report by the Dhubri Deputy Commissioner to the Border Areas Department, the department took up the issue of erosion with the Union Home Ministry.

According to news reports State Resources and Enterprise Development Ministry is planning to cut nearly 70,000 tress in three State-run estate companies- Janatha Estates Development Board (JEDB), E

In view of the perennial and crippling flood and erosion problem faced by Assam, chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday vouched for an international river authority comprising India, China, Banglad

With the fall of water level in the River Brahmaputra, erosion has taken serious turn at Kapasia union under Sundarganj upazila in Gaibandha district in last couple of days creating anxiety to the

The erosion of the rivers Jamuna and the Pamada has taken a serious turn due to sudden rise of water level in Shibalaya, Horirampur and Daulatpur upazilas and at some other places of the distri

Erosion by the River Jamuna took a serious turn, devouring around 200 homesteads and a vast tract of croplands at different villages in four unions under Daulatpur upazila in the last three days.

A government report has pinned the responsibility of the Uttarakhand disaster on “haphazard human intervention” -- hydel projects, mining, de-forestation and infrastructure for religious tourism, w

Water level of all the 16 rivers in Kurigram district including the Brahmaputra, Dharla,Teesta, Dudkumor and Sonavory have been risen sharply creating flash flood due to torrential rain and on rus