MUMBAI: A farmer turned environmentalist from Waynad, Kerala, a forest officer cum social reformer at Pench tiger reserve, from Maharashtra, a cowherd from Assam who turned a sand island into a flourishing green belt with numerous animals, a principal forest officer who protects tigers in Goa, were among the people awarded the Sanctuary Asia Wildlife awards for this year. Working in remote parts o...
Three persons including one suspected ULFA militant were killed in an encounter between police and a group of ULFA cadres today at Mandir Chapori, Dakshin Ahotaguri near Majuli around 10.30 this morning.
One Gada Ghosh (20), a milk trader and Bhaben Pegu (25), a cowherd who was looking after the cattle in the chapori, were killed in the incident. Another person killed in the encounter, whom police ...
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...
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...
The gruesome killing of three persons from a single family for allegedly practicing witchcraft at a lower Majuli Mising village in Jorhat district of Assam has sent shock waves to the entire Mising society. This is not the first time that news about inhuman physical and mental torture including gruesome killings like this is round the corner. This is happening in the home and hearths of Mising peo...
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