Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday that 26,681 houses were damaged in the floods that hit Assam in July. He announced the second phase of immediate interim monetary relief of…
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has defended the Assam government's plan to reduce Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve's Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) from the default 10 km to a minimum of 1…
Road engineering deficiencies have aggravated prolonged urban flooding in Assam, according to a study by a West Bengal-based firm submitted to the Meghalaya government. The study examined waterlogging at Jorabat and Ninth…
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has adopted a resolution to launch a statewide campaign against coal, stone and sand syndicates, blaming them for recent floods in the state. Party president Gaurav Gogoi…
Upper Assam is experiencing one of its worst floods in six decades, and rescue teams from the NDRF and SDRF say the biggest challenge is not reaching the stranded but convincing them…
Every monsoon, Assam faces catastrophic floods from the Brahmaputra, but the long-term damage comes from riverine erosion that permanently swallows land. Livelaw.in reports that the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and relief funds…
The Bodoland Territorial Region in Assam has become the first tribal council under the Sixth Schedule to fully digitise its land records. Over 15 lakh documents, including maps, were digitised across five…
Karnataka, Assam, and Tamil Nadu together hold 59.29% of India's estimated 22,466 elephants, according to a Wildlife Institute of India (WII) report released on Tuesday. Karnataka leads with 6,013 elephants, followed by…
Assamese filmmaker Maharshi Tuhin Kashyap has won the Secret Program Fellini Award at the 27th Lucania Film Festival in Pisticci, Italy, for his film 'Kok Kok Kokoook'. The award, named after legendary…
Four people, including a tailor whose Facebook account was allegedly used, have been arrested in Morigaon over a death threat posted against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during his Independence Day…
