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 …
Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla on Friday said dams would be constructed on all the rivers of the state to generate hydro-electricity. "We plan to dam all our rivers and generate more than 2500 Mega-Watts of electricity," Lal Thanhawla said in a speech to party workers at Congress Bhavan. The …
The Centre has directed the Mizoram government to cull all pigs that were affected but have survived the Porcine Reproductive Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS). The state government records say there are 5,620 such pigs. Two government labs had detected an exotic virus that causes PRRS in 57 of the 64 samples …
Jammu and Kashmir and the northeastern States fall under the Asian belt of oesophagus cancer together with China Cancer of the oesophagus – or what is commonly called food pipe – has been detected as the third most common cancer in India, with people from the northeast and Jammu and …
Aizawl : Detection of an exotic virus from among more than 3,800 pigs killed by swine fever in pig farms of Mizoram since March has led the Centre to summon state officials to New Delhi for an emergency meeting on Tuesday. Dr Amarjit Singh Nanda, Animal Husbandry Commissioner in Department …
Aizwal : With last month’s landslide that killed 17 people and swept away 11 buildings here fresh in mind, Aizawl’s district administration has ordered the demolition of a handful of large buildings that stand atop steep cliffs within the city limits ahead of the three-month rainy season. A top official …
A controversial hydroelectric project in the northeast may run into rough weather with the Environment Ministry hesitant to grant green clearance to the project which involves cutting 78 lakh trees and 27,000 bamboo columns. The construction of the proposed 1500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project (HEP) downstream of the confluence …
A controversial hydroelectric project in the northeast may run into rough weather with the environment ministry hesitant to grant green clearance to the project which involves cutting 78 lakh trees and 27,000 bamboo columns. The construction of the proposed 1500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project (HEP) downstream of the confluence …
Aizawl: Tobacco presently kills nearly six million people every year and the WHO estimated that the weed will take times of more than eight million by 2030. World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), which is observed on May 31 is meant to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms …
The number of death in Saturday’s Aizawl landslide incident has gone up to 17 on Monday out of which 15 dead bodies have been recovered so far. Besides human casualties, 11 houses were totally damaged and as many as 7 four-wheelers and 9 two-wheelers were also damaged in that calamity. …
Aizawl: The death toll in the landslide which hit Laipuitlang area here has risen to 11 with the recovery of one more body from the debris. Three more bodies have been sighted and the rescue team is engaged in extricating them, while search is on for three others feared to …
The Centre for Science and Environment, a New Delhi-based public interest research and advocacy organisation, has called for a public transport strategy for the Northeast. “We should design roads for public transport, cycling and walking and not just for cars in an effort to cut pollution and congestion and reduce …
Joining several other States, Tamil Nadu on Wednesday announced a ban on gutka and pan masala. The ban on the manufacture, storage and sale of the carcinogenic chewable forms of tobacco led a host of announcements Chief Minister Jayalalithaa made in the Assembly pertaining to the health sector. The State …
A large number of villages in Mizoram have become inaccessible because of landslides triggered by heavy and incessant pre-monsoon rains that have been lashing the State since Saturday, official sources said today. The landslides blocked the Champai road in Saiha district which connects the capital town with the Mizoram-Myanmar border. …
A large number of villages in Mizoram have become inaccessible after landslides, triggered by heavy and incessant pre-monsoon rains that have been lashing the state since Saturday, have blocked the roads, official sources said on Wednesday. The landslides blocked the Champai road in Saiha district which connects the capital town …
Conservator Aparajita Datta has won the Whitley Award, also called "Green Oscar", for her work to save threatened hornbills in the forests of Arunachal Pradesh. Datta is one of eight grassroots conservation leaders awarded a share of prize funding worth £295,000 by the Whitley Fund for Nature. Datta leads a …
Over 600 pigs have died from swine fever and about 12,200 have been infected in the past two months in Mizoram, officials said here on Wednesday. “The endemic swine fever caused the death of as many as 470 pigs in Aizawl district alone while remaining 130 died in other districts. …
Census 2011 has pegged India’s total population at 1.21 billion, 17.7 per cent more than the last decade. According to the final census data released by Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Tuesday, the country’s population stands at 1,210,726,932, or 1.21 billion, as on March 1, 2011, showing an increase …
India’s total population stands at 1.21 billion, which is 17.7 per cent more than the last decade, and growth of females was higher than that of males. According to the final census released by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today, India’s total population as on March 1, 2011 is 1,210,726,932 or …
The Comptroller and Auditor-General has found serious lapses in implementation of the UPA’s flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. In its second performance audit submitted to Parliament on Tuesday, the CAG said employment under the MGNREGS declined, funds were being diverted for other use and possible …
Following the direction of the union government, Tripura and Meghalaya will ban the sale, manufacture and distribution of gutka (tobacco–laced areca nut pieces) and pan masala (a chewing mixture), officials said on Tuesday. Health department officials of Tripura and Meghalaya said that both the States have already taken initiative to …
