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No drinking water in villages along Assam-Arunachal border

By NEWSNET DESK on March 13, 2019 EAST-SIDE STORIES

A low water table, and high arsenic and fluoride content in groundwater makes people go thirsty.

No drinking water in villages along Assam-Arunachal border

Ming-Mang (Assam-Arunachal Border): The entire area looks picturesque with blue hills on the northern horizon sloping towards the plains full with different streams and brooks flowing through paddy fields of villages. But this seemingly beautiful landscape dotted with huts and chang ghars of villages on the inter-State border areas of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in […]

CNG kit coming soon in Patna

By SEEMA KUMARI on February 21, 2019 DATELINE BIHAR

In the month of June, the installation of the CNG kit will start in the petrol vehicles being run in the capital of Bihar. Initially CNG kits will be installed in four-wheeler vehicles and petrol auto. According to Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL), kit manufacturing companies have started contacting the transport department for the […]

Monkeys terrorize Agra, citizens deploy Langur deterrent!

By NEWSNET DESK on November 16, 2018 EAST-SIDE STORIES

Here’s a piece of wild news: Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal, is being terrorized by hordes of killer monkeys! In the past three months local newspapers have reported at least three incidents where people have been fatally attacked and bitten by monkeys. There’s nothing that the population can do, because these simians are […]

Eco Task Members planted 99 saplings

By SEEMA KUMARI on October 23, 2018 NEWSNET VOX POP

On 23rd October, 40 Eco Task Members of Patna Women’s College planted 99 saplings at two different part in Patliputra Colony locality. The saplings were provided by Department of Forest and Environment, Government of Bihar. This activity was supervised by Shahla Yashmin, Head, Department of Zoology and Vice President, Eco Task Force and Dr. Rachna […]

Forest festival at Bio-Reserve

By NEWSNET DESK on July 28, 2018 DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Get them young! Some 125 kindergarten kids toddled around Taru Mitra bio reserve to breathe in the sights and sounds of the forest, and of course to plant their very first tree! Tarumitra, ‘friends of trees’ started the gala celebrations of Van Mahotsav on July 27 in its Digha based bio-reserve with students, interns, volunteers […]

Meghalaya CM frees his office of plastic

By NEWSNET DESK on June 6, 2018 EAST-SIDE STORIES

SHILLONG: – Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma’s office has ‘seriously’ gone green. He asked his staff to make an earnest effort to build a plastic-free environment. All the CM’s stationery and letterheads will be made from recycled paper. Sangma, a self-proclaimed environmentalist, walked six kilometres from his residence at 3rd Mile Upper Shillong to the […]

Accident at Sea : ‘Mountains of Rubbish’ on beaches

By NEWSNET DESK on June 6, 2018 WORLD

Large amounts of rubbish have washed ashore in Australia after 83 shipping containers fell from a vessel in the Tasman Sea. The cargo tumbled off a Taiwanese-owned ship in a heavy swell off the coast of New South Wales last Thursday (31 May). Locals have complained that rubbish continues to wash up on usually spotless […]

Humble clay cup makes a comeback on Campus

By NEWSNET DESK on June 5, 2018 EAST-SIDE STORIES

Jamshedpur: When Mr Lalu Prasad, as Union Minister for Railways introduced the earthen teacup or kulhar or chooka on Rajdhani trains, several people scoffed. Now, you may soon be drinking tea out of chookas in your college canteen! Acting on an advisory of the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed […]

Special Kids, Tarumitra Students act for Environment

By NEWSNET DESK on June 5, 2018 EAST-SIDE STORIES

Patna: Kids with physical disabilities and others organised a ‘run’ to spread green awareness on the eve of World Environment Day in the Bihar capital. State disabilities commissioner Shivajee Kumar led a group of some a hundred citizens, young and old – the differently-abled children and their parents, gymnasts, social activists and environmentalists, in the event […]

32 rare vultures poisoned in Assam

By NEWSNET DESK on March 19, 2018 INDIA

The popular publication Northeast Today has reported the tragic death of 32 rare scavengers, among which were Himalayan Griffin vultures. In what may be termed as the largest case of poisoning of Scavenging birds after 2011 in Assam, it has come to light that the carcass of a goat, poisoned for the dogs that killed […]

57 Hectares of Gir Wildlife Sanctuary encroached

By editor1 on March 13, 2018 EAST-SIDE STORIES

Gandhinagar: The last living space of the remaining 523 Asiatic Lions is under threat ! Over 57 hectares of forest area inside Gujarat’s Gir Wildlife Sanctuary is under encroachment, the state government informed the Legislative Assembly, says a PTI report. Of these, 1.31 hectares had ‘religious structures’ on them. While responding to a written query […]

‘Old Lady’ stuck in mud-pool, dies!

By Newsnet Intern on March 3, 2018 INTERNS

KAZIRANGA : They tried their best to save the ‘old lady’, but even an excavator couldn’t budge her from the muddy pool. An adult female rhino which got stuck in a pool of muddy water since early this morning while attempting to take shelter near the bank of Difflo river in Borbeel area under Boloni […]