Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of New item titled “Six workers killed in fire inside Nagaland rat-hole mine “appearing in The Hindu Bureau Dated 27.01.2024 Vs Nagaland Pollution Control Board & Others dated 30/04/2024. Cognizance of the case was taken up suo-motu …
Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDONER) has taken up the North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) with the support of the World Bank in the States of Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura to assist the rural poor and vulnerable groups including women in improving their livelihood. The primary …
Nagaland appeared to have sprung a surprise by registering a negative population growth - minus 0.47 per cent , implying its population has decreased since last count. This was, however, easily explained from the fact that the base figure was unreliable. Nagaland had already rejected Census 2001, with the state …
Kohima, March 24: Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio today presented a deficit budget of Rs 602.30 crore. Rio said the current transaction of the coming year 2011-12 is estimated to result in a negative balance of Rs 0.86 crore. However, because of the estimated negative opening balance of Rs 601.44 …
Kohima, March 2: Nagaland government employees working for rural development were today called upon to work together and constructively for sustainable development of the rural areas. The parliamentary secretary of the state rural development department, Pangnyu Phom, who was the chief guest at the annual conference of the Nagaland Rural …
The representatives of 14 more villages under Tuensang district met at Chingmei under the Eastern Nagaland Conservation Area Network (ENCAN) recently and decided to conserve the forest areas under their village jurisdiction. According to sources here today, that the ENCAN was formed on December 9 last year at Tuensang in …
Govt orders new survey of dry latrines; to amend existing laws After 61 years of India becoming a Republic, the country has realised that more people than it so far thought could be engaged in the abhorrent practice of manual scavenging. Following this realisation, the government on Wednesday ordered a …
Towards the south-eastern part of Nagaland, a big problem looms. A problem least thought about by most people; nonetheless, is a grave one. Meluri, a subdivision under Phek district, is one of the remotest places in Nagaland. The land inhabited predominantly by the Pochury tribe extends uptill the border of …
A day-long seminar on leadership for Climate Change is being organized for political leaders, policy makers, media, NGOs, academicians, intelligentsia and stakeholders at Mokokchung on January 20. Official sources here today said the seminar is organized by the Eastern Himalayan Decentralised Resource Centre (EHRDC) of Lead India and is being …
Chunks of Intanki National Park in Nagaland are sold for Rs 2,500 a hectare as the forest department looks on. Read this Down To Earth Report on encroachers’ settlements in this national park.
From the moment we drove into Intanki National Park, tucked in the southwestern edge of Nagaland, I kept gaping at the canopy overhead to catch a glimpse of the circus artist of the wild—hoolock gibbons. Unique to Northeast India, the mighty little ape can swing at a speed of 55 …
High-level government delegation to visit Champang oil fields KOHIMA, Jan 7: The Cabinet Sub-Committee for Oil Exploration set up by the Government of Nagaland will undertake an official visit to Champang village, commencing from January 8. The visit of the high-powered committee is significant coming as it does against the …
