The Daily IIJ

The Assam government on September 16 recruited 768 doctors for rural postings. “Assam is the country’s first state to have carried out such a historic recruitment drive,” said health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma after handing over appointment letters to the doctors in Guwahati. The move, Sarma said, is to ensure that every panchayat has at [...]

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Forty-four people died of Japanese encephalitis, a brain infection, at the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh on July 28. The same day another 68 patients of the viral disease were admitted to the hospital. This was revealed by Dr. T. R. Borborah, principal of the Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh.

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On August 24, the Meghalaya government decided to hand over a large parcel of land in west Khasi hills to the Uranium Corporation of India Limited. Citizens groups have opposed the decision to lease out 422 hectares (ha) of land for uranium mining saying it will degrade the environment. But chief minister D D Lapang [...]

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Rabindra Singha is staring at a bleak future at his home in Rowta Bagan village. His 1.6 hectars of land are lying uncultivated. He lost his last year’s yield in ethnic riots that broke out in Udalguri district of lower Assam in October. “I was able to feed my family and make a saving of [...]

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Three north-east states—Assam, Manipur and Nagaland— were declared drought hit between June-end and July following deficit monsoon rainfall. In Assam, four districts were hit by flash floods that affected three lakh people; the remaining 23 districts reeled under drought.

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Climate change has gripped the North East of India, the region known to receive rainfall in abundance. The entire North East has received deficit rainfall in 2009. Till end of April according to data of the Indian Meteorology department the states of Assam and Meghalaya has received 83.9 mm rainfall whereas the normal is 166 [...]

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A landslide on the Indo-Tibetan border has blocked the course of the river Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) resulting in the formation of a reservoir. This may cause flood in downstream areas of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam if the barrier of mud and debris bursts under pressure from water accumulating on the other side.

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Midmorning on March 6, swirling, yellowish clouds engulfed Guwahati, the largest city in the northeast of India. Freaky winds threw traffic out of gear, bent telephone and power lines and tossed hoardings into the air. Dust stung the eyes and the visibility dropped to 800 metres. Above the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, an Indian [...]

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