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 …
Research Focused On Delhiites, Manipuris & Keralites New Delhi: Delhiites’ predilection for fatty foods and sweets is no secret. Not surprisingly, they have beaten south Indians and those from the northeast in a study on obesity. The study focusing on three ethnic groups — Indo-Aryans (from Delhi), Mongoloids (from Manipur) …
PANJIM: Twenty-five percent of children under the age of five in Goa are underweight and 38.2% are anaemic a study by the National Family Health Survey of the Ministry of Health Government of India has revealed. According to a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, by Krishna Tirath, …
IMPHAL, August 7 – The Manipur Cabinet has approved an action plan to tackle the problems being faced by cultivators in the State due to insufficient rainfall. “The Cabinet has approved an action plan to supplement irrigation facilities in the State through distribution of 400 numbers of pump sets to …
SILCHAR: In order to resolve the raging controversy over the construction of Barak dam, both Delhi and Dhaka have agreed for an expert-meet on August 27 in the national capital. The six decade old multipurpose project could not take off due to opposition from the environmentalists and naturalists as well …
Imphal, Aug. 3: Tokay gecko (gekko gecko), a harmless Asian lizard, suddenly finds itself being hunted by poachers and traders, who, in turn, are being trailed by wildlife officials and police. Eight tokay geckos were rescued by police from Bishnupur and Thoubal districts in three cases in the past few …
'Public hearing organized by the Manipur Pollution Control Board to gauge the opinion of the people was a dismal show' IMPHAL: The attempt of Indian government to explore oil at Jiribam sub-division of Imphal East district has started facing rough weather with all sections of people objecting to it. It …
IMPHAL, July 31 – Manipur-based Naga bodies have strongly objected to oil exploration activities in Tamenglong and Churachandpur and Jiribam subdivision of the State. “The surreptitious activities of the Government of India and the Government of Manipur in extending a license to a multinational company for oil exploration in Tamenglong, …
Agartala: The Northeast’s fourth mega food park will be set up in Tripura at a cost of Rs 72 crore to accelerate the growth of food processing industry in the region, a minister said here on Sunday. It will be used to preserve fruits and vegetables coming from the country …
IMPHAL: The cabinet sub-committee formed to monitor the scanty rainfall and make necessary recommendations was not happy with the insufficient rains this season. The ministers who made extensive tour of the paddy fields in the four districts of the valley recommended the Chief Minister Okram Ibobi to take steps for …
Experts, selected by the Bangladesh and Indian governments, will sit for the first time on August 27-28 to jointly study the possible impacts of the construction of the controversial Tipaimukh Dam on the Barak River in the Indian state of Manipur. India set the date at the foreign secretary-level meeting …
Agartala: The Central government has provided additional quota of rice at a subsidized rate for the poor living in 12 backward districts in the Northeast, a State government official said here on Monday. “The union ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution on the direction of the Supreme Court …
Contrary to the immediate demand of declaring drought in Manipur, the Manipur Government has decided to provide urea at subsidised rates besides monitoring the rainfall pattern and its status. Though there is a report of onset of monsoon which is the lifeline of agriculture in the State, rains are deficient, …
Imphal: The Manipur government sold power outside the state despite the crippling power crisis in the state, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India report for the year ending March 31, 2011, has revealed. “Avoid selling power outside the state and consider using the same within the state for meeting …
SHILLONG: Road links to the northeastern States of Mizoram, Tripura and parts of Manipur and southern Assam remained cut off from the rest of India on Sunday, following massive landslides on a major highway in Meghalaya, an official said Sunday. The National Highway No 44 at Sonapur and Tongseng in …
Kohima: A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit Nagaland and three other north-eastern States in the wee hours of Sunday triggering panic. No casualties have been reported. According to Regional Seismological Centre in Shillong, the quake occurred at 1.25 am. The epicentre was in Kohima, the capital of Nagaland. The tremor was …
Agartala: The first unit of ONGC-Tripura Power Corporation’s 726 MW gas-based power plant at Palatana in southern Tripura will start generation by September, officials said here on Monday. On Monday, ONGC started supplying natural gas to the plant through a 54 km-long pipeline. Before the commercial generation of electricity from …
ONGC-Tripura Power Corporation is a 726.6 MW gas-based power project ONGC's Tripura unit would start releasing gas tomorrow to the ONGC-Tripura Power Corporation (OTPC) for the first phase of the 726.6-MW gas-based power project at Palatana in Gomati district, official sources said today. K Satyanarayana, manager, ONGC, Tripura Asset, will …
IMPHAL, July 2 – Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh presented the budget estimates for the year 2012-13 in the State Assembly here today. The total receipts during 2012-13 are estimated at Rs 8,232.66 crores, a jump of 30 per cent over 2011-12 of Rs 6,331.79 crore, Ibobi said while …
Panic prevailed in north-eastern states as two earthquakes of moderate intensity rocked Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura on Sunday. There was no report of any loss of life or damage from any part of the region. The India Meteorological Centre, Shillong, said that magnitude of the earthquake …
Agartala: The Rural Development Ministry has embarked on a ten-year mission to make India open-defecation free country, said Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh. The Union Minister, who held a review meeting with representatives of Northeastern states on Drinking Water and Sanitation (DWS) at Prajna Bhavan here on Saturday, …
