Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
IMPHAL, April 15 – The scientists at the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) Manipur centre have successfully induced breeding of Khabak (Bangana dero), an indigenous minor carp of the region in an extended breeding season. “We have successfully started to breed Bangana dero in an extended breeding season following …
IMPHAL: The Manipur government has miserably failed in containing the widespread practice of starting wildfire for hunting and clearing the mountain slopes for cultivation. The tribals have found that the ashes from the burnt trees and other vegetations are natural manure. The raging wildfire also drives away the terrified wild …
IMPHAL: The water supply division of the Public health Engineering has notified the people that since the water sources had dried up the water reservoirs and supply plants located in some parts of Imphal can no longer supply water to the people. Meanwhile, government and private hospitals are depending on …
Gangtok: The poverty level in Sikkim has gone down with 80,000 people now living below poverty line, according to the new official estimates for 2009-2010 released by the Planning Commission. While in 2004-2005, poverty level in Sikkim stood at 30.9 per cent with 1,70,000 people living under BPL, in the …
IMPHAL: Hepatitis B positive has taken the scale of an epidemic in the tribal villages of Tamenglong district. At least one teenaged girl has died and 17 others have been shifted to the hospital. The disease was reported from Marangching and some other villages around Noney. The prevalence of the …
The Manipur government is working on a plan to allow only those who have garage space to buy four-wheelers and two-wheelers in a bid to ease traffic congestion in the city and other towns of the state. Responding to a call attention motion raised by two Opposition members in the …
The Planning Commission on Monday released the latest poverty estimates for the country showing a decline in the incidence of poverty by 7.3 per cent over the past five years and stating that anyone with a daily consumption expenditure of Rs. 28.35 and Rs. 22.42 in urban and rural areas …
New Delhi:Data released by the Planning Commission on Monday showed that poverty had significantly declined between 2004-05 and 2009-10. The catch is that this decline is based on a poverty line that is even lower than the earlier Rs 32-per-day mark that had triggered an outrage when the government submitted …
Despite all tall talks of development, level of poverty in Northeastern states including Meghalaya has increased even though the same has declined in the rest of the country. More alarmingly, poverty level among the rural tribals, who mostly inhabit in North-East, is as high as 47.4 per cent. This was …
NEW DELHI, March 14 – It’s official. The ambitious national railway projects in North-east are likely to suffer further delays with Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, ruing a slash in budgetary support, confirmed that the national projects may get delayed for want of adequate funding. Presenting his maiden Budget on Wednesday, …
Agartala: While Forest Survey of India (FSI) Report 2009 showed a steady increase of forest cover in the North-East states, the latest report of FSI revealed that the region has lost about 549 sqkm green cover over the years. FSI Report 2011 stated that Tripura alone had degraded about 96 …
Bangladeshis expatriates in the United States will stage demonstrations in front of World Bank head office, IMF, Indian embassy, US state department offices in Washington DC today between 1:00pm and 5:00pm. They will press for equitable share of Teesta water and stoppage of India’s river interlinking project and construction of …
A cycle rally was taken out by activists in the Indian state of Manipur against the proposed Tipaimukh dam, which they alleged would damage the environment. The protesters on Saturday also submitted a memorandum addressed to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, requesting him to revoke the Memorandum of Understanding reached …
A cycle rally was taken out by activists at Kakching Khunnou in Thoubal district of Manipur against the proposed Tipaimukh dam. They submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, requesting him to revoke the Memorandum of Understanding reached among the State government, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited, (NHPC) Ltd. …
Imphal, Feb. 19: The campaign against Tipaimukh hydroelectric project is gaining momentum in Manipur with various local organisations joining the anti-dam cry and demanding scrapping of the project. Today, students and villagers from 10 villages of Imphal West took out a bicycle rally in the district. The campaign was kicked …
IMPHAL: The Loktak Development Authority(LDA) has warned the people against consumption of fish which is being caught using insecticides in general and Hildan in particular. A spokesperson of the PDA, T Ibobi in a statement said that an official team has established that the fishermen have been using these poisons …
People of north-eastern Indian state Manipur and Assam have been raising their voice continuously against construction of 500 meter high Tipaimukh dam that will severely damage life and bio-diversity in that area as well as Sylhet region in Bangladesh. On Sunday, Manipuri Students and club members of Kakching Khunou and …
Shillong, Feb. 17: Citizens have asked the state government to put in place a land policy as the number of landless people in the state is on the rise. The land policy and various other issues came up for discussion at the pre-budget consultation on resource allocation for 2012-13, held …
IMPHAL, Feb 7 – Manipur- based Centre for Research on Environmental Development (CRED), an NGO, has been awarded the Green Globe Foundation award 2012 for outstanding contribution at the grass root level critical issues of environment degradation besides generating mass awareness on pollution related issues. The award was handed over …
Fishermen held a demonstration in the city on Tuesday against India’s controversial Tipaimukh dam saying it would adversely affect livelihoods and life of over three lakh fishermen in Bangladesh’s north-eastern districts. Speaking at a rally in front of the National Press Club fishermen’s leaders said that at least 10 rivers …
