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Towards a Green Assam- Why the Dighalipukhuri Movement Matters
200 years of Assam Tea: Blending tradition and experiment, Meena Tokbipi brews entrepreneurial success story of handmade green tea and orthodox tea
Innovative community homestay models in Manas and Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscapes developed in partnership with Aaranyak combine traditional hospitality with nature tourism
Oil palm in Assam: Non-remunerative price and adverse impact on intercropping compel a section of farmers in Goalpara and Kamrup to withdraw from it
Seeds of Hope: Mushroom spawn unit set up by Biotechnologist Aparna Jyoti Rabha provides women of Boko area alterative livelihood choice, increases seed production in Assam
Dying Kulsi River in Assam pushes women of Kukurmara to road construction sites and packaging units as daily wage earners for livelihood
For erosion-hit women of Simina, Eri silk spinning and weaving is the only hope to escape the whirlpool of livelihood crisis
Childhood cancer in Northeast: A steady increase in number of patients overshadows the stories of survival
Northeast India's Climate Conundrum: Navigating the Impacts on Ecosystems and Communities
Myth of non-lapsable fund for Northeast: Over Rs 90,000 crores left unutilized under NLCPR, but DONER ministry is unable to leverage the accumulated amount as it is only notional fund
Development Model in Autonomous Districts: The paradox of development deficit in Dipluso village and autonomy in Karbi Anglong
Jasingfaa Aqua Tourism Centre: Combining aquaculture, angling and tourism to turn central Assam’s Dimaruguri village into an offbeat travel destination
Assam flood 2022: Rendered homeless after breaches in Puthimari embankment, Bagaribari residents fill and carry sandbag at restoration site for Rs 5 a sack to rebuild lives
Food Safety Index 2021-22: Assam ranks at the bottom among large states in the most important food safety parameter of FSSAI
Dibru-Saikhowa, Baghjan and the politics of ecological conservation
Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2021: Five of top six states with highest population deprived from adequate housing provision are from northeast region
Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2021: Nearly one third of Assam’s population are deprived from adequate health, education, and standard of living
North Eastern region District SDG Index: Only One district in Assam Figures among top performing districts in respects of the first five SDGs
Myanmar Opium Survey 2020: Despite 11 per cent drop in cultivation, country's drug economy continues to fuel armed conflict
'E-learning' or Learning Online : ‘Paradigm Shift’ or ‘Paradise Lost’ ?
Amrapari uses Katha craft to help Char women stitch together stories of economic independence
Kalbari: An archipelago village in Assam where life is held hostage by recurrent floods and erosion
Farmers’ coping strategies: Flood and erosion-hit families of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji grow water resilient Bau rice and new crop varieties to sustain
North East Industrial Development Scheme, 2017: Only Rs 1 crore allocated in 2019-20
COVID-19 pandemic: Sualkuchi weaver sold 1,70,000 Natural dyed Eri silk facemasks during lockdown to start construction of his dream museum to showcase Assam’s centuries old silk weaving practices
Jute cultivation: Climate change impact has ruined the cultivators of the golden fibre in Assam
Online classes during COVID-19: Pandemic situation brings the lesson how the digital divide in Assam is pushing underprivileged and downtrodden students to the brink
Frontline warriors of COVID-19: The story behind deep financial crisis of 33,000 ASHA workers that went unheard, unnoticed in Assam
Assam’s MSME Ordinance: Just the opposite of what is needed
Save Dehing Patkai Campaign: Need to broaden the conversation on the illusion of nature-destroying economic model
Baghjan Gas Well Blowout: NGT probe findings on “cause of gas and oil leak” will be critical for Oil India Limited to follow up on its show cause notice to John Energy Limited for the blowout
Make India TB-free by 2025: Deployment of doctors and health workers engaged in tuberculosis treatment and surveillance in COVID-19 duties makes the goal more challenging in Assam
Open cast coal mining in Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve: North Eastern Coalfields “temporarily suspends” all mining operations
Menstrual Hygiene Day: For women workers in Assam tea gardens, it is just another day to take note that they do not have toilets at workplace
Open Cast Coal Mining in Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve: RTI query reveals 39 per cent of forest land in Saleki PRF which NBWL claims to be unbroken, has already been mined, broken and cleared
COVID-19 challenges: Over 7500 VLEs in Assam keep open online routes at CSCs for telemedicine, banking and other essential services for thousands of rural households under lockdown
Commercial manufacturing of Assam’s rice-based heritage brews: Current Excise Rules to benefit only the moneyed class brew problems for the communities
Childhood Cancer Care in Northeast India: Rise in survival rate is credited to awareness and free treatment for needy
Disaster Response Fund: Assam government’s failure to fully utilise SDRF assistance deprives flood-affected families from additional NDRF assistance
Alarming rise in Air Quality Index reveals how Guwahati is gasping for clean air
Integrated long-term policy and action plan is the key to reduce flood and erosion risk in Assam
Assam’s Golden Yarn: Tradition of Muga silk weaving has lost its shine due to rise in prices of cocoon and yarn
GrassLooms to Showrooms — RGVN helps Assam weavers look beyond traditional markets to connect with global buyers
Over 1.4 lakh marginal workers, vendors shoulder responsibility of Guwahati’s development, but who cares about them?
Mission Smile counts on support from more PSUs to cure 21,000 more people born with cleft in Northeast India
Conversation on Conservation: Stitching up the fragmented approaches
Majheli Char farmers demand subsidised quality seeds for steady supply of winter vegetables to Guwahati and Shillong
River transport on Brahmaputra: Still the preferred mode for thousands travelling to and fro Guwahati
Leprosy situation in India: Assam tops the list of states with highest rates of more infectious patients but lacks required medical intervention
Reducing carbon footprint: The Monpas have been doing it for ages by preserving traditional water-powered grinding technology Chuskur
Alternative livelihoods bring back rhythm of life to an Assam village devastated by man-elephant conflict
North East Industrial Development Scheme : Negative twist
Royalty on mineral resources: State governments must have the rights in determination of the rates
Colonial Economic breakthrough and the forbidden fruits of Meghalaya
A Library on a Char in Assam is a Haven for Book Lovers
Rags to riches: How a landless Assam farmer scripted his success story
Dhaka beckons: Agartala-Akhaura Land Port rejuvenates East-West Bengal Corridor
Zokhawthar : A deserted space between the Act East Policy and the formalisation of border trade
Eviction in Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary: Houses demolished but the larger question of rehabilitation of about 1200 families left unanswered
Rampant sand mining destroys Assam’s Kharkhari river, renders paddy farming unsustainable along its banks
Milk boats from the chars
Plucking requires skill but the tea companies do not consider it as a skilled work
Graduate woman grows off-season spinach to script greenhouse success story
Adolescents in Assam tea garden areas trained to use folklore to fight social vulnerabilities
Cash crop farming has reduced the space of Nyishi women in bio-resource management
12300 Letter Boxes in Assam continue to bask in the glory of the world's largest postal network
Assam farmers set sight on palm oil
Solar on the char
India’s longest rail-cum-road bridge not complete even after 20 years
Gendering the Actions- A New Way to tackle Climate Change
Hopes dry up as Assam farmers’ plea for cold storage in Sontoli falls on deaf ears
Marginalising further
New Delhi sanctions payment of outstanding oil royalty to Assam and Gujarat as ‘one-time Special Central Assistance” only after PMO approved it
Autonomous Colleges in northeast: A long way to go
Sontoli mini PHC: A healthcare centre in Assam without an obstetrician that handles average 10 child births daily
When the river ate the school
Banana cultivation on land reclaimed from the Brahmaputra hit by fresh erosion
The mint is minting money for Assam farmers
Struggles of the sandbar people
Tree-killing disease threatening to wipe out Boko orange groves in Assam
Timber shortage pushes away Assam's traditional bullock cart from village roads
India-Bangladesh Border Haat: Not just a place to buy cosmetics or dry fish, a reunion spot for families living on both sides too
Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s Dream Hospital Needs Oxygen
How SOS lived up to its name in an Assam village
Traditional practices of livestock management in Northeast India
Assam HDR 2014: State lost 30 per cent human development potential due to inequalities
Assam farmers’ worst enemy
Women workers of Assam tea gardens grapple with critical health issues
Hope for the Magur
Assam faces the onslaught of climatic change
Medevac in the Northeast
Rearing a hope
History of deprivation should not be prolonged - Centre should patronise OIL and ONGC in Assam
Flower business blooms in Assam
Assam needs two more tea auction centres
Saving the Ceniputhi- A success story
The Flooding Frontier - Beyond Dominant Narratives
Common Property Resources – The Neglected Natural Assets
Fruits of success
Assam - Indigenous Capital, Development and Administrative Competency
STUDY REVEALS PLIGHT OF ASSAM'S MIGRANT WORKERS IN KERALA
Assam needs a white revolution
Assam’s bowl of success
A step forward
Follow the Tripura example on border trade
Where there is a will…
Sticking to the broom
Revival of the lost fabric Re Chokodo of the Tiwas
Gunaram, Dhaniram and An Alternative Future
Changing geo-politics in Northeast
Tied to traditions
Black rice cultivation- a success story in Assam
Assam’s ‘cool’ craft
Look beyond the broom
Let Batha bring our bread
Whither tourism in Northeast? Points to ponder
Tamils at Moreh
The past can be the future
Literacy declining in Assam’s char areas
A ripe case of negligence
Myth of development and dependency syndrome in Assam
China, India must both review Himalayan region dams
Bulk eri buyers outside shattering weaving dreams in Assam
Double entry strategy for Northeast
Some gained, more lost
Jagiroad dry fish market has grown by 20 per cent- a photo feature by Anu Boro
Hope Through Homestays
A rising dam and a sinking village
Cheap Banarasi imposter harming Sualkuchi’s Assam silk
Kongali Bharal -- Granaries of hope
Assam’s brass and bell metal industries not in sound health
Binding borders with books
Go the whole hog
India-Bangladesh border village defies man-made frontiers
German tips add sparkle to the 2000-year-old Assamese Jewellery
Tourism leader in Northeast, but Himalayan blues for Sikkim
Riot-hit, terror-ruined Mandai tops in financial literacy among blocks in India
Ima Keithel: A unique symbol of Manipuri Women Empowerment
River-ravaged Dambuk rides the orange dream
Challenges and opportunities in the tea sector

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Book Review : Inner Landscapes by Dhrubajyoti Borah
Open Cast Coal Mining in Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve: RTI query reveals 39 per cent of forest land in Saleki PRF which NBWL claims to be unbroken, has already been mined, broken and cleared
Child marriage and teenage pregnancy in Assam: Dhubri district accounts for the highest percentage of child marriage while Cachar tops the chart of teenage pregnancy
Ethanol from Bamboo: Uninterrupted supply of bamboo, not its availability, is the real challenge for NRL’s bio-refinery in Assam
Snapshots of paddy harvesting in Assam- a photo story by Anu Boro
Citizenship to Hindu Bangladeshis: Assam Chief Minister’s tactical position indicates Himanta Biswa Sarma’s growing clout
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