The Haryana Government has decided to give financial assistance of `12,000 per acre to those flood-hit farmers, who have suffered substantial loss of land due to landslides and change of course of rivers during floods in 2010.

Announcing this here today, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said out of this financial assistance, `6,000 per acre would be provided from the calamity relief fund.

Jorhat, May 5: The Brahmaputra Board has assured Gauhati High Court that it would take up several emergency anti-erosion measures in at least eight locations in Majuli by March 31.

Based on a PIL filed by residents of the island, the court had issued showcause notices to the board and the ministry of water transport for failing to protect the lives and property of the people of Majuli island fr

Jairam Ramesh It is for the government of Orissa to meet the legal rules if the mammoth Posco steel project is to be cleared by him, said Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh.

A day ahead of a meeting with Orisa chief minister Naveen Patnaik, who reiterated that project clearance is vital for both state and nation, Ramesh said:

Guwahati, April 17: Dispur is expediting the signing of the $120-million loan agreement for the Assam integrated flood and riverbank erosion risk management investment programme to stop the Asian Development Bank

KOHORA, April 11

NALBARI, April 7

The mangrove species Heritiera littoralis Dryand, from which the name Sundarbans has been derived, has for the first time been found in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts by botanists.

A research paper about the findings of two botanists

KRISHNAGAR, 1 APRIL: The indifferent attitude of the Left Front government to address issues including checking erosion of the Ganga river bank, providing electricity to a large number of people residing near the river banks has clearly put the Opposition candidate of Kalyani Assembly seat far ahead of the Left contestant.
For the past few years, the unabated erosion of the river embankment has p

NEW DELHI, March 14