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भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान गुवाहाटी के वैज्ञानिकों न…

Neolithic artifacts from Northeast India are 2,700 years old: study

A new study confirms that the corded pottery and polished stone tools recovered from Assam and Meghalaya were more than 2,000 years-old

जलवायु अनुकूलन के लिए जरूरी जन-भागीदारी

भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान (आईआईटी), इंदौर और आईआईटी, ग�…

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New polymeric material developed for controlled release of two different drugs

By repelling water, the material is able to control the rate of infiltration of water molecules, allowing the release of the drug in a sustained …

6.9 temblor strikes Indo-Myanmar border, tremors felt across east and Northeast India

Second consecutive quake to strike South Asia in a week; 6.6 magnitude temblor had struck Afghanistan last weekend

Assam prepares to spend Rs 40,000 crore on an economically unfeasible project

Removing excessive silt from the Brahmaputra by dredging will not solve the problem of annual floods in Assam unless the government pays …

The Earth is not for humans alone, says NGT over Deepor Beel

Water body on the outskirts of Guwahati has been facing threats from railway tracks and a municipal solid waste plant

Gangetic dolphins declared as official mascot of Guwahati

Citizens voted for the mammal in a three-month-long voting process

Documenting the Northeast's tribal laws

Land is central to the tribal identity in the region too easily abbreviated 'northeast'. Jeuti baruah knows this too well. As director of the Law …

A paper sensor that can detect freshness of milk

IIT Guwahati scientists develop a new detection kit that could make testing freshness of milk easy and fast

Vitamin C used to assemble gold, silver and platinum nanoparticles

Flash floods in Guwahati

Heavy rains likely to continue for next three days in the Northeast

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (May 13-17)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal 

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भारत के 22 नदी घाटियों में से महज छह नदी घाटियों के पारिस्�…

Pygmy hog thrives

Dwindling numbers

Stormwater channels

Farmer-activist immolates self in Guwahati

Prabin Boro was demanding land rights for migrant families that have settled in the forested hills around Assam’s capital

Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

PROTECTING BEELS

Climate change and malaria

Though there is no evidence showing inter-annual variation in malaria transmission intensities and climatic determinants in the Northeast because …

Double trouble

Two layers of black carbon, a pollutant causing greenhouse effect, have been found over Guwahati. Usually there is just one

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