In what might help the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) to ‘stifle’ the cries of anti-dam activists for some time, the state-run hydropower gaint has agreed to bear the incremental cost of non-structural flood-proofing measures that would be put in place in the 2000-MW Subansiri Lower Project.
An NHPC spokesman on Monday said the Thatte-Reddy Committee set up by the Planning Commis...
I was at least for five days in Golaghat district of Assam in the belt inhabited by Mising ethnic people during the last Durga Puja vacation. Here is a brief account of my experience. We toured the countrysides mostly inhabited by people speaking a lingo in unique ethnic tone.
While it must be said that there are large number of non-speaking Mising people, the diversity in the community must be ...
The economy of Majuli has been devastated by the recurring floods this year. The little hope remaining among the majority of the inhabitants engaged in agriculture in Majuli after the flood in June was also totally washed away by the last monstrous flood in the month of September this year.
As the water level receded and the vacant crop fields came out of water there remain only sorrow and hopeless...
Amar Sangno
ITANAGAR, Sept 26: In an embarrassment to the Lower Dibang Valley district administration, the flood victims under Paglam circle of Dambuk Sub-division today claimed that no ration sortie or relief materials provided so far by the district administration. The flood victims have expressed their anger and accused the district administration of step-motherly treatment towards the circle, ...
Army and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescue teams were deployed in upper Assam's Tinsukia and Dhemaji districts on Friday to rescue thousands of people marooned by flood waters as the overall flood situation turned critical in the State following incessant rain for past more than a week.
A swollen Brahmaputra has submerged vast areas of Majuli following a breach in an embankment a...
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