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, May 17: Food scarcity has hit Mizoram as rice, the staple food of the state, could not be transported through trains due to militancy in neighbouring Asom, official sources said here.They said that train services in Asom were disrupted following recent attacks on trains by suspected Dimasa rebels on …
Aizawl: Officials on Monday maintained that compensation had been provided to the affected people of the 12 MW Serlui B hydel project which is nearing completion even as reports poured in that some families had refused to move out of the affected site alleging non-payment of compensation. Kolasib DC Dawngliana …
The Barak Basin of northeastern India covers the states of Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. The rich and diversified vegetation of the region is facing perturbation in recent years and large tracts of forest are being converted to non-forest. In this study, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra (Vegetation …
Flowering of bamboo is a botanical enigma. The factors responsible for this are still not clearly established. Bamboos flower only once and die after flowering to regenerate from seeds1. The strange phenomenon of simultaneous flowering in bamboo clumps in vast areas is called gregarious flowering and causes ecological havoc. (Correspondence)
The Centre is working on a package to ensure the return and rehabilitation of 5,000 displaced Bru tribal families from Tripura to Mizoram at the earliest. A high-level team of the Union Home Ministry, led by Secretary (Border Management) Vinay Kumar, visited both the States early this week to work …
The severity of underemployment has been high in rural areas. Considering the severity of the rural unemployment problem, various special employment programmes have been introduced by the Government of India to provide employment opportunities through the creation and strengthening of rural infrastructure. One such employment programme was the Employment Assurance …
Forests and women are strongly interconnected with each other because women, particularly those living in rural areas or mountain areas, have a deep relationship with the forest ecology because they are responsible for gathering food, fuel, fodder, leaves and water for the family. Hence, women directly play an important role …
Mrs. Hume's Pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae) is a poorly known, but globally threatened bird. It is thinly distributed in the hill tracts of northeastern India, northern and western Myanmar, southwestern China and northern Thailand.
AIZAWL, March 22: Environmentalists in Mizoram have expressed concern that forest fires trigerred by jhum burning are threatening the lives of hundreds of wild creatures. The Aizawl-based Association for Environment Protection (ASEP) informed that village leaders had apprised of a recent forest fire in Hmunzawl in south-east Mizoram which killed …
Meningitis is once again weaving a web of death and suffering in India's North-east having taken at least 250 lives so far The inhospitable terrain of northeast India - home to hundreds of ethnic tribes - has been plagued by killer diseases that often assume epidemic proportions. The latest scourge …
Competitiveness at the regional level is as paramount as at global or national levels. The nation has to work as a summated function in satisfying the dictums of success and gauge the anatomical significance of the individual parts in the survival of the aggregated whole. The India State Competitiveness Report …
Sushanta Talukdar Guwahati: The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has signed an agreement with the Mizoram government for execution of 460 mega watt Kolodyne Stage II Hydro Electric Project on the Kolodyne river in Sahia and Lawngtlai districts of Mizoram. Union Minister of State for Power and Commerce Jairam Ramesh …
The modern-day pied pipers in Mizoram and Manipur have earned a cool Rs 78.97 crore, killing; you guessed right, rodents. Yes, you read it right, that is the amount Government of India sanctioned to Mizoram and Manipur, two of the worst-affected States, to fight the menace of rodent. The amount …
Aizawl, Dec 1: Unlike in most other Indian States, environment and global warming rank very high as issues in the Assembly elections in green Mizoram. With almost 80 per cent of its total area of 21,000 square kilometres carpeted by forests, most of Mizoram
Aizawl, Nov 5: Two uranium smugglers who were on their way to Myanmar have been arrested from a hotel in Mizoram, security officials said here on Tuesday. Paramilitary Assam Rifles troopers along with Mizoram Police during a joint raid on Monday caught the duo at a hotel in Champai, 112 …
