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 …

Climate change and malaria

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

Assam on a platter

The great wetland grab

Guwahati allows construction on wetlands, but will not spare poor settlers on hills. A photo narrative by Sayantan Bera

Who messed it up?

Guwahati indicts poor settlers for flash floods, ignores damage on wetlands by construction work

When will Indian scientists unbolt?

Are Indian scientists really too busy to answer emails and phone calls? wonders Dinsa Sachan

Watery grave

Encroachment is killing Guwahati's only river and wetlands that can save the city from perennial floods

Reinvent the mobility idea

A tale of two cities

`I did not have a government for 36 hours'

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah pleaded helplessness as the seat of his government went under water and his ministers and …

Unkindest cut

THREATENED FOREST

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

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

Double trouble

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

Cruelty by royalty

Waste not, want not

Waste generated in Guwahati will now be used to produce bio-fertiliser and electricity

Generating electricity from speed breakers

Right sight

GIS helps determine waste disposal sites for Guwahati