Guwahati: Deep in the forested foothills of Arunachal Pradesh’s Siang Valley, scientists have identified a new species of ginger, underscoring how the Eastern Himalaya continues to yield botanical ...

Mizoram recorded 145 tuberculosis-related deaths in 2025—the highest in the past six years—official data revealed, according to a PTI report. As per the report, during the year, 2,275 people, ...

Dibrugarh: In a path-breaking initiative to explore and document historical sites associated with the ancient Ahoms and the Noctes in the Deomali sub-division of Tirap district in Arunachal Pradesh, a ...

Guwahati: The Assam Congress on Monday formally kicked off its preparations for the 2026 Assembly elections by opening the candidate application process at Rajiv Bhawan in Guwahati, signalling an ...

The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended Justice Revati Mohite Dere, the second senior-most judge of the Bombay High Court, for appointment as the Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court, during ...

Recently, I came across the article ‘Tincture to the Matrilineal–Patrilineal Conundrum’ in a local paper, in which the author, Melarbor L. Thabah, talked about “unblemished Khasi genes” and used terms ...

Tezpur: Tezpur University has announced that its upcoming end-term examinations will be rescheduled in response to the prolonged student agitation over allegations of corruption and administrative ...

Education of a child is incomplete without holistic development—this is the mantra of Debajit Ghosh, the visionary principal of Namsang Tea Garden Model School, who is leaving no stone unturned to ...

In a discovery that reshapes Asia’s Ice Age plant history, researchers have unearthed a 37,000-year-old thorny bamboo fossil from Manipur’s Imphal Valley—an astonishingly intact specimen that ...

Small tea gardens in the edge of the Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary which have been supporting the families who gave paddy due to human-elephant conflict. Photo by Anupam Chakravartty Guwahati: ...

The 2011 Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) was the first time landlessness was directly measured. So, when the data were released, the country knew how many people were actually landless. That ...

Aaranyak, in partnership with the UK-based David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF), organised two editions of its “Rhino Goes to School” programme to promote wildlife conservation among students ...