Purple my tea

Originally from Assam, purple tea has a low caffeine content, and filled with medicinal properties

Assam bank is changing lives, making entrepreneurs of illiterate women

The cooperative bank has been helping marginalised women save and become financially independent

Assam researchers make soft drinks, toffees from tea leaves

Oil survey in Assam will endanger biodiversity, affect people

High demand for Indian bamboo in Kenya, Ethiopia

Problem of plenty

Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam has far more rhinos than it can sustain

A device that turns away wild elephants

Comfort backpack

An improved plucking basket promises to alleviate muscular pain and fatigue, two major health problems faced by tea garden workers

Assam's nowhere people

The state has lost more than seven per cent of its area to erosion because of floods. The result: thousands of displaced people in makeshift …

Cyclone hudhud impact: lower Assam flooded with hilsa

Fishers makes windfall gain as Brahmaputra river and several of its channels get swamped with much sought after variety of fish

Open cast mining threatens Assam

Assam moves to curb pesticides in vegetables, tea

Pesticide limits to be set for vegetables; cultivators could be fined or banned from undertaking cultivation if their products exceed limit

ONGC to resume mining in Nagaland

Flood, again

Meghalaya government and environment activists blame deforestation in Garo Hills for recent flood even as official data counters their claims

Tragopan country

'Maps of resource-rich, poverty stricken tribal India overlap'

Ethnic conflicts have dogged India since independence. The problem has attracted a lot of scholarship. Amarjyoti Borah talks to two eminent …

Monsoon-friendly Assam reeling under drought

Meghalaya erupts over mining lease

Coal mining threatens Meghalaya caves

Assam heat wave kills over 10 people

Cyclonic disturbance diverts monsoon winds; tea plantations affected

Suspected Ebola case in Manipur; Northeast mounts strict vigil

Manipur, Assam and Tripura have increased screening of foreign visitors, including football players