Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on 10 November visited Kayantol in Kamrup district and Sonka in Morigaon district to review the government's two-pronged strategy for riverbank erosion and land reclamation. The…
A barge carrying 540 metric tonnes of methanol departed the Bogibeel Terminal in Dibrugarh, Assam, on Monday, 5 October 2026, bound for Pangaon Port in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Union Minister of Ports, Shipping…
The Brahmaputra is now just 10 metres from breaching the Biswanath Ghat-Panpur embankment at Solmari village in Assam. Strong currents swallowed about 200 metres of land since Tuesday morning, a local resident…
China has announced plans to build what could be its largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Zangbo river, known as the Brahmaputra in India. The project could generate three times the energy…
India is planning to build its largest dam in Arunachal Pradesh, a 280-metre-high structure on the Siang River, to counter China's $167 billion Yaxia hydropower project upstream in Tibet. The dam, with…
Bornali Baruah, 40, and her husband carried his bedridden 97-year-old mother Lokada Duarah on a makeshift raft of banana trunks through three-foot-deep floodwaters in Assam's Sivasagar district on 19 July. The family…
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…
An IIT Guwahati study has found microplastic contamination along the Brahmaputra’s shorelines and recommended field-based remediation. Commissioned by the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation under its Techno Economic Development Fund, the report…
Assam’s flood death toll has risen to 97, with more than 1.68 lakh people affected across 15 districts, according to the latest bulletin from the Assam State Disaster Management Authority, Times Now…
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