Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of S D Loda Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/04/2025. The state of Arunachal Pradesh and Itanagar Municipal Corporation was directed by the NGT, April 8, 2025 to file their counter affidavits on the setting …
ITANAGAR, April 25: The State Government today rejected the claims made by NCP that till December last year it had allotted 121 hydro-power projects to IPPs and CPSUs for implementation in the State. In a statement today, Government Spokesperson Jarbom Gamlin, who also holds the Power (Elect) portfolio, said that …
The traditional slash-and-burn cultivation in hilly areas of northeast India is known as jhum cultivation. It is often considered responsible for causing soil erosion, triggering landslide, flash floods and thereby degrading the primary land resource. The productivity is also reported to be very low. Further, it is also held responsible …
ITANAGAR, April 22: An amount of Rs 16.37 crore was released on April 3rd last to Arunachal Pradesh after the submission of details of bank accounts of State Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) as required vide Supreme Court Order dated 10.07.2009 in IA No. 2143 in Writ …
ITANAGAR, April 21: A team of high level state officials led by Development Commissioner V K Dev along with Special Secretary Finance Amit Singla and Secretary Planning Ankur Garg today inspected the ongoing project of Augmentation of Water Supply for Itanagar Township (Phase-II) sanctioned under JNNURM. The project is being …
New Delhi: The Government on Monday conceded that the power generation in various hydro-electric schemes in the Brahmaputra would be 'adversely affected' during the lean flow months in the event of China diverting water before the mighty river takes a hair pin bend and flows into Arunachal Pradesh as Siang. …
Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh): To generate awareness about the Mithun ( Bos Frontalis), a semi-domesticated animal in the north-east facing extinction, and other social issues, a two-day festival will be organised here in collaboration with the Centre for Cultural Research and Documentation (CCRD) from May 28. CCRD executive director Moji Riba …
Beijing: The massive earthquake in northwest China on Wednesday has raised serious questions about a hydro-electric project planned by the Chinese government near the mouth of Brahmaputra inside its territory just a few kilometres from the border with Arunachal Pradesh. Experts have often questioned China
Well-placed sources have hinted that Oil India Limited (OIL) is poised to gain Navratna status, a development that would not only ensure better visibility to the PSU, but reinforce its already solid credentials among partners and competitors. More important, as a Navratna company it would have additional decision making powers …
Pisi Zauing MIAO, April 11: Namdapha National Park in Changlang district is the fifteenth tiger reserve in the country spread over 1985.432 sq kms of forests, interpolated with moderate to steep precipitous hills, deep valleys, rippling rivulets and a huge natural lake atop Katwai bum, popularly known as Katwai Nawng, …
Two mega hydroelectric power projects of National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) and North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) have come under the scanner of a House Committee of Assam Assembly that has recommended a temporary freeze on construction activity. The House panel was constituted to study and examine the downstream …
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who arrived in Itanagar Friday morning after cutting short his four-day maiden visit to Arunachal Pradesh due to inclement weather, failed to make it to Tawang on the China border. Instead, he flew to Gerukamukh, the site where the 2000-MW Subansiri Lower hydel project is …
Arunachal Pradesh, being a largest state of Northeast India, harbours great number of plant species which are endemic to region. The diversity and endemism of state has kept it in the category of biodiversity hot-spot. Though, in recent past, numbers of plant species are being listed as rare, endangered and …
ITANAGAR, Mar 31: In response to the clarion call of Governor Gen (Retd) J J Singh for a Clean, Green and Plastic Free Arunachal, NABARD has sanctioned a pilot project on Solid Waste Management under its Rural Innovation Fund to be implemented in the state capital. The project is sanctioned …
ITANAGAR, Mar 18: The authorities of the Directorate of School Education today claimed that the Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme is being properly implemented across the state in accordance with the Supreme Court guidelines at all levels. A couple of days earlier, reacting to media reports, the AAPSU had raised …
CGI sheets procured at Rs 1,000 higher than market price ITANAGAR, Mar 14: Another scam running into crore if not crores has emerged out of SSA Rajya Mission
Faced with the criticism over its functioning, the Government of India proposes to amend the existing Brahmaputra Board Act 1980. The proposed amendments include expansion of the Board by including West Bengal, Minister of State for Water Resources Vincent H Pala said in a Lok Sabha reply. The Union Government
