A protection committee to avert breaches in any embankment in flood-hit Assam will be set up with Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal issuing directions to Chief Secretary V K Pipersenia in this regard.

Lack of proper maintenance puts the town protection embankment in bad shape, posing a threat to life and properties in the coastal areas of the port city. Experts said displacement of earth in the ...

Abdullah Al Mamun, executive engineer of the Bagerhat Water Development Board, said initial work has begun to prevent erosion along roughly 1,000 metres of the most vulnerable sections Around 700 ...

Water Development Board (WDB) has appointed 10 contractors on emergency basis to protect the embankment as it has developed breaches at 33 points along its 40 km stretch. It was alleged that ...

A complaint was filed yesterday over irregularities in the embankment protection work along the Ratnai river in Lalmnonirhat's Aditmari upazila. According to the complaint, one-fourth of the 200-metre ...

Over 200 families near Silchar face devastation as the Madhura river erodes land, homes, and a cremation ground. Caught between road construction and relentless erosion, residents have lost everything ...

Products from geotechnical and erosion control specialists, Maccaferri are being used to construct new flood defence measures in the Cornish village of Boscastle. Over 7000 sq metres of Maccaferri ...