Several tea gardens in Upper Assam destroyed wild mushrooms grown on hundreds of acres of land in a week-long drive in Tinsukia district. Deaths because of consumption of wild mushrooms are often repo...

Thousands of villagers and forest dwellers in Upper Assam districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Dhemaji, Jorhat, Charaideo, Lakhimpur, Majuli, Golaghat and Sivasagar offered prayers to Pashupatinath (lord...

Residents, intellectuals and civil society leaders on Friday said frequent police patrolling on the Tinsukia bypass road can reduce increasing incidents of loot in Tinsukia district of Upper Assam. Th...

Heads turn when young Hamant, Jiya and Madalasa bicycle to school, helmets firmly in place. At a time when youngsters on motorcycles and scooters use any excuse to avoid helmets, from “it spoils my ...

Onions are making homemakers weep, not just while cutting them but also with their skyrocketing prices.Onions come from Nashik, Indore, south Bihar and Bherawal to the state. However, due to heavy rai...

A two-minute film on the hazards of spitting in public places amid the coronavirus pandemic, which was shared by Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu recently on his Facebook page, has receive...

Villagers under Digboi and Doomdooma forest divisions in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district have sought protection for orphaned leopard cubs wandering around after their mother, 10-year-old Banapriya, ...

Twins Borbie and Sona, 5, have to stay back at home with their grandmother these days whenever their parents go for a scooter ride, courtesy the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019, which came into e...

Pig farmers’ miseries continue in parts of Assam and eastern Arunachal Pradesh following the sudden upsurge in pig deaths amid the nationwide lockdown.“We heard about spread of African swine fever...

Several deaths have been reported in the Northeast following consumption of poisonous wild mushrooms by poverty-stricken families as an alternative to vegetables which they could ill-afford during the...