Assam

Conscious of the issues of slums and poverty, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has channelized its efforts in promoting equitable growth in urban areas through Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM). The Mission addresses major social challenges of

IN THE 1990s, Budheswar Boro was a “poacher” at the Manas National Park (MNP), a UNESCO World Heritage Site forest stretching across 850-sq km on the Indo-Bhutan border in Assam. He lost his right hand in 1998 after a injured wild boar, which he had shot at, charged back at him. Boro, 48, still

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) will be starting a new Roll on-Roll off (Ro-Ro) facility in collaboration with the Government of Assam to provide the much-needed connectivity for Majuli Island. Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal will flag off a new Ro-Ro Service on 11 th October

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday launched a compensation scheme to bring down the mortality rate among pregnant women in tea garden areas of the state. Sonowal said Assam’s identity is synonymous with its tea, but the large working labour population in the tea gardens have not been

Residents of Mazgaon village in Assam’s Lakhimpur district could do little about the arsenic contaminated water they were forced to drink until a few years back. They found most water purifying machines expensive until they began using a low cost and easy-to-use filter – Arsiron Nilogon. Researchers

Khadi and Village Industries Commission ( KVIC ) has created a new world record of distributing maximum number of bee-boxes in a single day – beating previous best of 841 in Israel around two years ago. May 21 is celebrated as World Honey Bee Day. Today, KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena distributed

The Assam government on Friday distributed scooties to 1,000 girl students who had excelled in the State Board Class XII final examinations in 2017, with chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal saying it was one move on part of his government to accelerate the process of women empowerment in the state

In a mere 10-year period, between 1979 and 1989, the 22.24-sq km pristine forest, located at the tri-juncture of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan, was reduced to just sand, gravel and dead stumps of trees by a combination of illegal felling and a succession of floods. This is the story of the

This is the story of 17 year Seboti Pahariya. Born and raised in Amguri, 110 km from Dibrugarh, she is from a family of tea garden workers. She had to quit school five years ago when she was in Class VI to help the family deal with medical expenses of her ailing mother. Seboti will join Class VII in

Assam government will soon set up a three-level cancer care grid in the state and a cancer research centre for the South Asian region with the support of Tata Trusts, state health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday. This “first-of-the-kind” three-level cancer care grid which would draw an

Snigdharaag Bhuyan, a 4-month old baby, suffering from acute pneumonia and on ventilation in a Guwahati Nursing Home, had to be rushed to Gangaram Hospital in New Delhi for advanced treatment. He had to be taken to the airport, without losing any time, from the nursing home for further transshipment

Anjuara Khatun, 9, is a bright student. However, for the past two weeks, she hasn’t been able to attend classes because her school is submerged under flood waters. Despite that, Anjuara has been able to keep up with her studies, thanks to a floating school that holds classes on a boat for students