Tora Agarwala

Through the week, as Assam gears up to celebrate the harvest festival of Magh Bihu, the structure, traditionally known as a bhelaghor, has become a prime attraction in the village of Aamonikhali, drawing visitors for photo-ops from surrounding areas.

At Guwahati’s Rabindra Vidya Niketan Lower Primary School, only seven out of 56 students showed up on Friday

A week before her classes resumed, Himakshi’s father, who runs a hardware store in Guwahati, refused to sign the mandatory consent form allowing her to attend school.

A new initiative in Arunachal Pradesh spells hope for a thousand-year-old paper-making craft on the brink of extinction

In 1979, five teenagers from Nagaon formed a music band. Four decades later, a documentary tells the story of their quiet rebellion, one that led to the making of Assam’s first all-girl band.

Actor Adil Hussain has been busy travelling and shooting during the pandemic, getting himself tested for Covid-19 several times

Data shared by the Assam Forest Department show that the state saw 113 elephant deaths due to electrocution between 2009 and September 25, 2020, with several more casualties reported since.

On Sunday evening, Chandrahar, 104, suffering from a heart disease, who had spent three months in a detention camp for “foreigners” in Assam two years ago, died in his son’s run-down cottage in Boraibasti in Assam’s Cachar district — still a “foreigner”.

Mexico’s Fundación Azteca has signed on Jadav Payeng — famous as the ‘forest man of India’ — to aid the country’s efforts on sustainable conservation.

Anthrax is a highly infectious zoonotic disease found primarily in herbivorous animals. Following the two deaths, the forest department has launched a vaccination drive and is trying to trace the source of the infection

This election follows the signing of the crucial Bodo peace accord, and its outcome is expected to be crucial for the Assam Assembly polls next year.

The outcome of these local council elections — powered by the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution — could also be crucial in the Assam Assembly elections next year.

Bharat Bandh today: Several political parties, including the Congress, Shiv Sena, AAP, DMK, Kamal Haasan's MNM, Left parties, the TMC, and the TRS, have joined ranks with the protesting farmers. NDA constituent RLP has also supported the bandh call.

This is the first time such a big haul of marine life has been recovered in Assam — so far away from the coastline

The Arunachal Virtual Archive project lets you plunge into the deep, dark forests of Arunachal Pradesh, and come face-to-face with roaring tigers and trumpeting elephants.

The professor had gone to buy fish in a Silchar market, when the seller offered her a Indian peacock softshell turtle.

In October, Arunachal Pradesh became the first state in the country to obtain an organic certification for its kiwis. What led to the emergence of kiwi — a fruit that only grew in the wilderness not long back — as a major cash crop in the state?

Far away from the virus epicentres, Jebisaman and the others had joined the ranks of the countless corona warriors across the country whom The Indian Express is celebrating as part of the anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai

This is not the first time a tiger has been spotted in this part of Sonitpur district. In 2016 and 2017, two such incidents — involving two Royal Bengal tigers — were reported near the North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management campus in Tezpur’s Dolabari area.

What makes the ‘Roridomyces phyllostachydis’ — a new mushrooms species discovered in the forests of Meghalaya — glow bright green?

The young demographic — most not of legal voting age yet — have drafted a 'children’s manifesto' containing a ten-point charter of demands.

Akhil Gogoi is in jail after he was booked by the NIA on charges of sedition and under provisions of the UA(P)A for his involvement in the anti-CAA movement.

A public archive in Meghalaya is documenting the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on everyday lives

The Baghjan well blowout led to the death of three people and displaced thousands. Both the state and central governments have ordered high-level probes into it, and the NGT has constituted an expert panel.