– Contrary to reports about massive erosion of Majuli island, the Centre on Monday claimed that the total land mass of the river island has increased marginally. Based on satellite imagery, the land mass of the island was calculated at 520.26 sq km.
The total area of the land mass of Majuli main island, according to satellite imagery, was found to be 502.21 sq km in 2004. The total area based on ...
A lonely cowherd who spent lazy afternoons planting trees while his cattle grazed along a sandbar on the Brahmaputra and single-handedly grew a forest, was honoured by the Jawaharlal Nehru University with title of “Forest Man of Assam” on Earth Day today.
Jadab Payeng, popularly called Molai, is a self-appointed keeper of a 300-hectare woodland, every plant of which he has painstakingly grown over ...
The world’s biggest human-inhabited river island Majuli within Jorhat sub-division, despite being a repository of the unique Vaishnavite culture and tradition, may indeed find the going uphill in getting UNESCO recognition as a World Heritage Site even as the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has mounted a fresh initiative to get it listed, disclosed Prof Christopher Young, an e-mail received h...
With the assembly election coming closer in Assam,candidates are on all out campaigns after filing their nominations papers.As many as 529 candidates are on the fray in first phase poll which will be held on April 4.The Election Commission have been working round the clock to monitor to prevent any circumstances that are against spirit of electorate.Law and order situation is one of the topmost pr...
A recent case study conducted in Majuli on the impact of climate change on livelihood said that the communities inhabiting the largest mid-river deltaic island of the Brahmaputra were vulnerable to climate change .Agriculture being the main source of livelihood,there are solid evidences that the people are facing increasing difficulties to eke out their living as island’s landmass is slowly disapp... 
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