GUWAHATI, Aug 4: State Water
Resources Department Chief Engineer Tuhin Chakrabarty informed the Gauhati High
Court that due to paucity of funds, no major maintenance work on the Dibrugarh
Town Protection Dyke from Maijan to Mohanaghat could be executed since 1977.

Mumbai: The Mahim coastline is fast disappearing, claim fishermen residing by the seafront. On Monday afternoon, sea water came gushing in and claimed portions of the land.

A group of engineers here claim that a local technology has been developed to narrow down the ever-widening Brahmaputra and to make it follow a desired and deep course with steeper flow gradient.

The Brahmaputra has greatly widened almost all through its course in the State, except at places like Pandu. Many factors are contributing to this phenomenon.

DIBRUGARH, July 25

KOLKATA, 13 JULY: According to the District Human Development Report on South 24-Parganas, which was released yesterday, 15 per cent of Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forests, may be submerged by the year 2020. However, an uncertainty prevails over the data.

DOOMDOOMA, July 8

SHILLONG, July 6: State Minister of Soil and Water Conservation Prof RC Laloo today said that in the current trend of inter-agencies and integrated approaches to development, convergence and interchange of information assumed significance.

KALGACHIA, July 6

BALAGARH, 4 JULY: Hundreds of people in the Balagarh block of Hooghly, whose villages are close to the river Hooghly, have been having sleepless nights ever since the river started eroding its embankments.