Watery grave: How garbage, encroachments contaminated Guwahati’s only river

Natural and artificial drains in the city get clogged during heavy rains and spill on to the roads

Concerns over social-distancing as floods affect 300,000 in Assam

Two dead so far, around 20,000 in relief camps

असम बाढ़: क्यों सरकार पर भरोसा नहीं करते आपदा पीड़ित

इस वक्त असम के 17 जिले बाढ़ से लबालब हैं, जिससे लगभग 7 लाख लोग सीधे प्रभावित हुए हैं

Assam floods: 85% of Kaziranga submerged, 9 one-horned rhinos dead

The national park is home to more than 2,000 one-horned rhinos, the largest population of this species in the world

Assam's nowhere people

The state has lost more than seven per cent of its area to erosion because of floods. The result: thousands of displaced people in makeshift …

Floods and COVID-19: Tale of twin disasters

An episode that plays itself out every year: Assam is reeling under floods, yet again. As the COVID-19 pandemic silently rages in the background, …

Menstruating during floods, a perspective from Assam

Managing periods can be extermely challenging when you are a woman living in a flood-prone area

Follow-up

CAG report a wake-up call for ‘sick’ Assam PSUs

Report shows that of 40 PSUs in the state, 21 incurred heavy losses in 2013-14

Expect Assam floods to worsen in the next few days

Possibility of fresh floods in Meghalaya, Arunachal, Sikkim, north Bengal too

Floods affect more than a million in Assam despite rainfall deficit in state

The situation may worsen in the next 48 hours

Assam schoolchildren draw up agenda for 2019 Lok Sabha elections

About 500 girls from Assam, aged 14-19, have produced a 'Children’s Agenda' focusing on health, nutrition, water, sanitation and …

आयुर्वेदिक फल ओऊ

ओऊ की छाल, पत्तों और फल को पीसकर निकाले गए रस का इस्तेमाल सर्दी, खांसी, बुखार, हैजा और अपच के उपचार के लिए किया ...

Brahmaputra’s Neamatighat at risk of severe flood situation: CWC

The water levels are below the previous highest flood level of 87.37 meters recorded in 1991

Alive, but a hostage

NGO leader Sanjoy Ghosh, abducted by Assamese separatists, is reported to be alive

Meet Deben Bora

As field researchers will tell, you don't get up one fine morning and cut through an unknown forest in search of an elusive animal species. Even …

पूर्वोत्तर में बिगड़ा मौसम का मिजाज: कहीं बाढ़, तो कहीं सूखा

असम के कुछ जिलों मसलन धेमाजी और डिब्रूगढ़ में काफी बारिश हुई है, जबकि मणिपुर और मिजोरम में सामान्य से कम बारिश दर्ज की ...

Floods kill four in Assam; destroy crops

Brahmaputra and five other rivers flow above danger mark; low lying areas of Kaziranga and Pobitora wildlife sanctuary under water

How 'Bhut Jolokia' lost its heat

One of the hottest chillies, it went through a dip in its intense spiciness and price when its production spread and cross-pollination began on a …

Saving the degraded river basin

Assam shows how water needs can be met without disturbing a river’s ecology

Unkindly cuts

Death deluge

More than a lakh affected as floods hit Goalpara district in Assam

A tryst winth death

The land of the Brahmaputra recurrently reels under terrible onslaughts of a scourge

Islands in the river

The insular but self-sufficient existence of the marine nomads inhabiting the islands that pepper the Brahmaputra river as it winds across …

Scripting a struggle

Tribals fight for the right to write their way