Dibru-saikhowa National Park

The raging fire at an oil well in Assam's Tinsukia district has caused irreversible damage to the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and the Maguri Motapung wetland area besides jeopardising livelihood of people dependent on the land, conservationists said on Friday.

The Army has cordoned off the site of a big oil well fire in Assam's Tinsukia district. The Oil India Ltd's site had been leaking gas for 14 days before it caught fire on Tuesday. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force along with the local authorities are trying to contain the fire.

The natural-gas producing well of the Oil India Limited (OIL) in upper Assam's Tinsukia district continues to spew gas even 10 after the incident, causing grave damage to the region's wetlands and biodiversity. Images shared by locals on social media show gas condensate depositing in the Maguri beel wetland, dead carcasses of endangered Gangetic do...

Amid a spike in coronavirus cases and the first wave of floods in Assam, the state is bracing for yet another crisis - for the last five days an oil well owned by Oil India Ltd in Upper Assam has been releasing natural gas into the air after a leak. Sources said Oil India officials are still working to plug the leak.

There is a controversy brewing in Assam over environment clearances given for two separate projects. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has given clearance for hydrocarbon drilling to Oil India Limited at seven locations under the Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Assam's Tinsukia district at time when there is already a lot of cr...

The raging fire at an oil well in Assam's Tinsukia district has caused irreversible damage to the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and the Maguri Motapung wetland area besides jeopardising livelihood of people dependent on the land, conservationists said on Friday.

The Army has cordoned off the site of a big oil well fire in Assam's Tinsukia district. The Oil India Ltd's site had been leaking gas for 14 days before it caught fire on Tuesday. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force along with the local authorities are trying to contain the fire.

The natural-gas producing well of the Oil India Limited (OIL) in upper Assam's Tinsukia district continues to spew gas even 10 after the incident, causing grave damage to the region's wetlands and biodiversity. Images shared by locals on social media show gas condensate depositing in the Maguri beel wetland, dead carcasses of endangered Gangetic do...

Amid a spike in coronavirus cases and the first wave of floods in Assam, the state is bracing for yet another crisis - for the last five days an oil well owned by Oil India Ltd in Upper Assam has been releasing natural gas into the air after a leak. Sources said Oil India officials are still working to plug the leak.

There is a controversy brewing in Assam over environment clearances given for two separate projects. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has given clearance for hydrocarbon drilling to Oil India Limited at seven locations under the Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Assam's Tinsukia district at time when there is already a lot of cr...