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 …
Aizawl, Feb 4 – Extramarital and unprotected sex was the cause of the spread of HIV/AIDS in Mizoram, officials of State AIDS Control Society said here today. Dr Zothankhuma, Deputy Director of Mizoram State AIDS Control Society said that more than 67.86 per cent of the fresh HIV cases detected …
Aizawl, Feb 1 : With dry season closing in, the Mizoram Government has sounded fire alarm across the state. The State-level fire prevention committee has appealed to the Mizos to be cautious about forest fire with the arrival of dry season which is a period for traditional Jhum burning. The …
KOHIMA, Jan 28: Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), BK Handique, has approved road projects of Rs 434.23 crore spanning the five States of Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Manipur and Mizoram as part of the ongoing 11th Plan Projects of the North Eastern Council (NEC). According to a DoNER …
Mizoram has witnessed a fall in the number of malaria-related deaths in 2010 with only 31 people succumbing to the killer disease, as compared to the counts - 199 in 2009 and 99 in 2008. According to the record of State Vector-Borne Diseases Control Programme (SVBDCP) of the 322929 blood …
Mamit district, known as the rice-bowl of Mizoram, has its eyes set on oil palm to provide a new crop to its farmers and at the same time contribute to the state
The Mizoram Government has launched an ambitious Rs 2,873 crore new land use policy to solve food scarcity by moving away from shifting cultivation to permanent farming. Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla launched the programme recently by distributing Rs 20,000 each to 400 farmers at a function in Aizawl. Simultaneously, …
Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla today launched the New Land Use Policy (NLUP), the flagship programme of the Congress Government in the State, by distributing Rs 20,000 each to 400 beneficiaries of the programme in Aizawl district. Launching the NLUP, Lal Thanhawla said the policy was formulated to ensure sustainable …
Ten years down the line, Mizoram wants to wipe out poverty for ever, with Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla unveiling a Rs 2,873-crore ambitious New Land Use Policy (NLUP) here on Friday. Intending to wean out farmers from jhum cultivation, the state also wants to put a full stop to deforestation.
Fire plays important role in shaping ecosystem structure and function. Depending upon the complex effects of fire, it can have either beneficial or harmful effects. In this article, we briefly review the potential of satellite remote sensing data for mapping and monitoring vegetation fires.
THE Mizoram and Tripura administrations have served notices to families occupying land along the India-Bangladesh border. The land has to be vacated for fencing the border. Nearly 3,900 families along nine border sub-divisions in Tripura have been left homeless as state government failed to rehabilitate and compensate them. The remaining …
Over 4,000 Chakma tribal people in Mizoram have been starving for the past few weeks, a non-governmental organisation said Thursday. "Over 800 Chakma tribal families comprising over 4,000 men, women and children in four villages in Chakma Autonomous District Council (CADC) areas of southern Mizoram have been starving for several …
Aizawl: Over 4,000 Chakma tribal people in Mizoram have been starving for the past few weeks, a non-governmental organisation said Thursday. "Over 800 Chakma tribal families comprising over 4,000 men, women and children in four villages in Chakma Autonomous District Council (CADC) areas of southern Mizoram have been starving for …
Agartala/Aizawl, Dec 16 (IANS): Tripura and Mizoram are facing a food crisis as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has not supplied the allocated quota of food grain to the two States, officials said today. "In view of the inadequate railway wagons and feeble tracks of NFR (Northeast Frontier Railways), …
Mizoram is exerting maximum effort to overtake Kerala in the literacy rate. The only worry for the Government of Mizoram is in the southern Mizoram area which has a sizable number of illiterate persons. The Mizoram School Education Department and Mizoram SSA Mission revealed that the number of illiterates is …
