AMAL NATH All of 11 years, Uttam Tanti showed exemplary courage in saving a woman and her child from drowning in a river in Assam’s Sonitpur district. Uttam risked his life and single-handedly pulled out the woman and...

National Award winning filmmaker Rima Das’ most recent Assamese-language film Bulbul Can Sing has been announced as the opening night film for the 2019 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) which will kickstart on August 8th, 2019 in Victoria, Australia. Bollywood superstar...

ABDUL RAJAK To increase the green cover, the monks of Naharkatia in Dibrugarh district of Assam has conducted a ceremony to “ordain” trees, which they say will bring an end to deforestation and the decline of the environment. Hundreds...

Beware, Guwahatians! If you are caught spitting, urinating on or dirtying the city streets, be ready to face the music. The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), in order to keep the city clean, has started punishing people spitting on roads...

Over 22 per cent of the state’s total forest land is currently under encroachment MUKUT DAS Guwahati, July 1, 2019 The Van Mahotsav (Festival of Forests) that has been observed in India since 1950 has no relevance in Assam now since the...

A rare species of Tortoise was recently spotted near Yazali of Lower Subansari district in Arunachal Pradesh, the Wildlife Conservation Society-India informed. A male and a female species of the Impressed Tortoise were discovered this month. The Wildlife...