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 2: Malaria, which claimed 119 lives in Mizoram during last year, remains the biggest killer disease in this Northeast State. According to the Health Department records, 1,71,793 people hot their blood tested and 9,399 had tested positive for malaria during 2009. The victims aged between 1 to 64, …
AIZAWL, Feb 1: The State Health Department in a statement issued on the Anti-Leprosy Day today said Mizoram is marching ahead towards total eradication of leprosy. Mizoram on Saturday observed the 62nd Anti-Leprosy Day along with the rest of the country to mark the death anniversary of Father of the …
AIZAWL, Jan 29: The State unit of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), in its project sanctioning committee (PSC) meeting here recently, has sanctioned a number of projects under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) to the Mizoram Government. Official sources today said NABARD has sanctioned a project that …
SHILLONG TIMES/SHILLONG/04/01/10 http://www.theshillongtimes.com/ Reports said that the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary department of Mizoram conducted an inspection on the meat sold in Aizawl during this Christmas season and found out that out of 500 cows tested around 100 of the animals suffered from Food and Mouth disease. The cattle were …
AIZAWL, Dec 20: The number of people living in acute poverty in Mizoram is fast increasing but the successive governments continue to display indifferent attitude to this issue. In Aizawl alone there are over 60,000 people living in Mizoram version of slum areas till date. In Mizoram they are officially …
The number of people living in acute poverty in Mizoram are fast increasing but the successive governments continue to display indifferent attitude to this issue. In Aizawl alone there are over 60,000 people living in Mizoram version of slum areas. They are officially called
AIZAWL, Nov 26: The tiger habitat analysis in Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) in western Mizoram has found that closed evergreen or semi evergreen forest in the tiger reserve has considerably decreased over the last few decades. The report of the analysis to the State Environment & Forest Department today disclosed …
AIZAWL, Nov 3: Serlui river, the main source of water in the State capital, has been found to be poisoned by unidentified miscreants, disrupting water supply to many localities in the city today. According to Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department source here, a few fishermen, who went to the river …
If statistics are any indicator of India's economic health,we are a country of stunning diversity. Only 5 in 30 states have an urban population of over 50 per cent. These are Delhi, Puducherry, Goa, Mizoram and Tamil Nadu. Among the big states, Punjab, with a yield of 4,017kg per hectare, …
Democracy," Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said, "is the art and science of mobilising the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all." The ghost of spirituality went out with the Mahatma. What is in the domain of …
Change is inevitable; it is truly the only constant. Often change is hard to detect, particularly in amorphous domains such as governance and development. Be assured though that India is changing, even if at a glacial pace. The Seventh India Today State of the States Report reveals that the gravity …
AIZWAL, Sept 8: By generating employment opportunities through infrastructure development projects, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has helped people in rural areas of Mizoram. In Vairengte, located about 130 km from Aizawl, the State capital, many villagers are being employed in road construction projects. They earn rupees 103 …
The erosion by Barak river has expanded by a range of 5 km near Panchgram, which includes the villages like Kalarpar, Das Colony, Katakhal and Tukargram. People from these villages, like Satyendra Singha, Biswas Singha and Birendra Singha, have discovered cracks in their RCC buildings. Altogether, 20 families have been …
In a relief for locals living under the threat of swine flu, all the 40 throat swab samples suspected of swine-flu infection were found to be negative today, health department officials said. Swine flu scare, triggered by the detection of two cases in the State on Saturday, hit normal lives …
AIZAWL, Aug 18: Annual rice produce in Mizoram is likely to fall by 30-50 per cent due to drought-like situation this year. State Agriculture Minister H Liansailova called a meeting of officials here yesterday to discuss measures for providing succour to farmers and check crop damages due to scanty rainfall. …
