NE states show rise in HIV cases: Report
Guwahati: New HIV infections have been reported in Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram in 2017, in spite of an overall decline in HIV infection in the country, according to a National AIDS
Telegraph (North East)
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Sikkim toll 11
Gangtok, Sept. 25: The death toll in the flash flood in North Sikkim climbed to 11 with the recovery of four more bodies from Rangma near Chungthang this afternoon. Twenty people went missing when a
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Study first, nod next to Tawang projects: Panel
Guwahati, Sept. 25: The forest advisory committee under the ministry of environment and forestry has refused to provide clearances to hydroelectric projects on the Tawang river basin, unless a comprehensive
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Urban housing crunch on the rise
Guwahati, Sept. 24: The northeastern states are facing a shortage of 0.68 million urban dwelling units, with Assam still topping the list despite recording a decrease since 2007. This was stated in the
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NIT Silchar to set up solar energy plant
- 100KW capacity plant will soon come up on the campus, biogas unit also on the cards. Silchar: The National Institute of Technology, Silchar, will soon start work on producing clean solar energy to meet
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Automobile sales dip by 18% in N-E
High interest rates on loans, rising fuel prices, coupled with an unstable political situation in Assam has hit the automobile industry hard in the Northeast, with sales dropping by 18 per cent in August.
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Delhi nod for NFR project
Silchar, Sept. 19: The Union forest and environment ministry has granted final approval for acquisition of 3.6 hectares of forest land inside Barail reserve forest in Dima Hasao district to enable Northeast
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Alert fails to save rhino - poachers strike at kaziranga in spite of beefed-up security
Jorhat, Sept. 16: Heightened security measures in rhino habitats of the state came to naught with poachers killing a female rhino at Kaziranga National Park, the home to the one-horned species, in the
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Neepco to set up hydel project
Shillong, Sept. 12: The foundation stone for the first-ever hydel power project, to be executed by the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (Neepco) in Meghalaya, will be laid by Union power
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Tea factories fret over green order
Jorhat, Sept. 12: The National Green Tribunal’s recent order, which penalised the state government for failing to curb violations of the no-development zone around Kaziranga National Park, has caused concern
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Lessons on life in pledge to go organic - NGO teaches children to care for nature and improve their socio-economic status
Jorhat, Sept. 11: By day they hold the pen in their young hands and by evening they soil them in muck. Deeply rooted to the earth, which their fathers till for a living, a group of children of Chitralekha