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, Dec 27: Manipur faced extreme hardship in the year 2010 and people still continue to fight to ward off the hard days as they prepare to welcome the New Year. Employees stir, blockade on national highway, non availability of essential items, holding of Autonomous District Council election, death of …
Aarti Dhar Wider access to anti-retroviral therapy reduced AIDS casualties Children account for 3.5 % of all infections NEW DELHI: Even though the overall HIV infection prevalence rate has shown a 50 per cent decline during the past decade in India, among the States, Manipur continues to top the list …
The Assam State AIDS Control Society has started implementing the phase III of the National AIDS Control Society (NACP), with the main objective of halting and reversing the trend of the AIDS epidemic by the year 2012. The number of HIV positive cases detected in the State in the year …
Under the centrally sponsored schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) construction of new roads and upgradation of certain inter-village routes in Manipur has given a facelift to several villages in Manipur. A senior official of Manipur State Rural Road Development Agency (MSRRDA)told newsmen that The recent construction …
Construction of new roads and upgradation of certain inter-village routes in Manipur under the Centrally sponsored schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) has started to change the lifestyles of several villagers.
An 11 year old Class V student of Catholic School, Canchipur, Baby Lalrilu was sick and hospitalised at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Hospital here on June 27 following a complaint of high fever and unconsciousness. But unfortunately Baby Lalrilu, the only daughter of a young Rongmei widow …
Imphal, Oct. 14: Farmers in Manipur were initially happy when the rains began early this year to enable early cultivation. However, they might face starvation next year, as vast tracts of paddy crop have been damaged extensively in the three valley districts of Manipur because of flash floods caused by …
Massive landslides triggered by incessant rains in the past few days have cut off road links between Nagaland and Manipur with several stretches of the NH 39 being washed away or buried under debris. While a major landslide took place in Nagaland capital Kohima, the national highway was also cut …
KOHIMA, Oct 7: The NSCN-K has been irked by the alleged threat to the Intanki Reserve Forest because of the flooding of Nagas from Manipur into the reserve forest in Nagaland in the last 10 years. The NSCN-K, also called GPRN/NSCN said tonight that in the last 10 years large …
With only about a week remaining for the formal withdrawal of the Southwest Monsoon from it, the North East region of the country has so far recorded deficit monsoon rainfall. However, the Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) here claims that only two of the NE states - Manipur and Meghalaya
The Tipaimukh Dam issue is being strongly raised again both in Bangladesh and India as some Indian ethnic minorities are going to protest the dam construction while the main Opposition BNP in Bangladesh is preparing to launch a massive movement. An Indian ethnic minority group believes that the area of …
IMPHAL, Sept 23: The Governor of Manipur, Gurbachan Jagat said that the present scenario of cancer problem in the State does not appear encouraging. The Governor stated this while delivering his chief guest speech during the observation of the National Rose Day 2010 observed today at the Mini Auditorium of …
NEW DELHI: North Eastern states including Meghalaya have slipped on universal child immunization programme raising concern along with some other mainland states even though smaller states other than the region have fared better, according to the Government
Imphal, Sept 13: Even though the government had claimed that at least 4,18,613 households were given employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREG) scheme in Manipur in 2009-10, some villagers of Imphal East district alleged they were given to work only for a few days instead of …
The prevalence of overweight and obesity and their associated factors among schoolchildren in Manipur had not been studied. The authors did a cross-sectional study among 3356 schoolchildren of classes VIII to XII in Imphal West District, Manipur between September 2005 and August 2006.
