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 …
GUWAHATI, Aug 19: Assam and other northeastern States seem to be entering a phase of severe shortage of essential commodities as the Contractor Federation of FCI (North East Zone) has categorically said that its indefinite strike will continue until a positive response comes from the authorities to the demands of …
Aizawl, Aug 12: The Mizoram Government has incurred a loss of Rs 9.66 crore per month for procurement of additional rice at economic price per month.The government has been compelled to procure additional 80,000 quintals of rice per month as the State
Aizawl, Aug 12: A total of 20.64 per cent of Mizoram has been identified as degraded land due to jhumming or slash and burn method of shifting cultivation, which was alarming, according to official findings.The findings stated that 28.18 per cent of the Mizoram
AIZAWL, July 26: The relationship between plagues of rats and bamboo flowering was the focus of a workshop held in Mizoram. At the workshop, Dr F Lalnunmawia, an assistant professor at Mizoram University
Aizawl, July 12: If the survey by Economics & Statistics Department of Mizoram is to be based, the rate of infant mortality is on the increase in Mizoram. The survey stated that a baby dies before attaining one year across the State, and over the last decades in Mizoram the …
Aizawl, July 5: Union Rural Development Ministry has released grant in aid worth Rs 10 crore as part payment of second instalment of Phase V for construction of rural roads in Mizoram under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). According to official sources today, the sum was from the special …
Agartala, June 28: Tripura Forest Minister Jitendra Chowdhury has expressed deep concern over degradation of forest land due to shifting cultivation (Jhum) over the years and revealed that Manipur has emerged as the worst-affected State, followed by Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura. Addressing a National Seminar on the Great Depression of …
AIZAWL, June 27: Zoologists claimed to have discovered a new species of sisorid cat fish in Mizoram. The species of cat fish named Pseudolaguvia virgulata is recently discovered from the Barak river drainage in Mizoram, said Dr Lalramliana, Assistant Professor of Department of Zoology, Pachhunga University College, Mizoram. This finding …
SILCHAR, June 3: The stretch of National Highway 44 regarded as the lifeline of supply of Barak Valley, Mizoram, Tripura and East Manipur is now being threatened by slow but steady erosion caused by river Barak near Panchgram where the only industry of this valley, Cachar Paper Mill, is located. …
NEW DELHI, May 26: The Union Ministry of Rural Development has released grant-in-aid worth Rs.93,91,000 as first installment of central share of funds for the implementation of centrally sponsored Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) to be spread over 8 districts of Mizoram during the current financial year 2010-11. The objective …
Aizawl, May 6: The primitive slash and burn method of cultivation, or jhumming, in Mizoram has led to a massive destruction of forests and innumerable forest fires causing loss of human lives. The State Forest Department has attributed the disappearance of large tracts of forest every year to the jhum …
Aizawl: The primitive slash and burn method of cultivation or jhumming in Mizoram has led to massive destruction of forests and innumerable forest fires. The state forest department has attributed the disappearance of large tracts of forest every year to jhum fires that normally take place in this tiny state …
