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 …
DIMAPUR: In an effort to meet the increasing power demand in rural Nagaland, the department of New and Renewable Energy (NRE), Nagaland, inaugurated another biomass gasifier power plant at Medziphema village today. The Medziphema plant (2 X 100 KW) is the fifth biomass gasifier power plant in rural Nagaland under …
KOHIMA: Nagaland State has earned the unenviable position of being ranked second among Indian states in terms of tobacco consumption, next to another small North-eastern State Mizoram. According to latest survey conducted by Global Adult Tobacco, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), every second man and every third women …
Agartala: The Central government has provided additional quota of rice at a subsidized rate for the poor living in 12 backward districts in the Northeast, a State government official said here on Monday. “The union ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution on the direction of the Supreme Court …
Jorhat, July 20: Rampant killing of wildlife, especially deer, along the Assam-Nagaland border in Jorhat and Mokokchung districts has prompted the Assam forest department to send a proposal to its Nagaland counterpart to take joint steps for their conservation. The deer population is confined mostly to Changchang and Longtho forest …
Shillong, July 15: The city was awakened by a “moderate intensity” earthquake just after midnight last night although there were no reports of any damage to human life or property. The quake, measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, occurred around 1.25am, an official from the Shillong Seismological Centre said. The …
Kohima: A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit Nagaland and three other north-eastern States in the wee hours of Sunday triggering panic. No casualties have been reported. According to Regional Seismological Centre in Shillong, the quake occurred at 1.25 am. The epicentre was in Kohima, the capital of Nagaland. The tremor was …
Kohima: According to Census 2011 Provisional Population totals released on Friday last, Nagaland contributes 0.16 per cent to India’s total population and ranks 25th in the total population among Indian states. The Census of India 2011- Provisional Population Totals Paper 2, Volume II of 2011 (Rural- Urban) distribution, Nagaland series …
Agartala: The first unit of ONGC-Tripura Power Corporation’s 726 MW gas-based power plant at Palatana in southern Tripura will start generation by September, officials said here on Monday. On Monday, ONGC started supplying natural gas to the plant through a 54 km-long pipeline. Before the commercial generation of electricity from …
KOHIMA, July 5 (PTI) – In the face of erratic electricity supply in the State, the Nagaland government has planned to install solar power facility in most of the directorate building of various departments within this year. Although the Department of New and Renewable Energy (NRE) wanted to install solar …
Panic prevailed in north-eastern states as two earthquakes of moderate intensity rocked Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura on Sunday. There was no report of any loss of life or damage from any part of the region. The India Meteorological Centre, Shillong, said that magnitude of the earthquake …
The death toll in the Assam floods has gone up to 61, while landslips have claimed the lives of 16. Besides, 10 others were reported missing in four districts. Of the 16 landslip deaths, 10 died in the city and six in Dima Hasao district. An earthquake of5.8 magnitude, with …
Rs 300 cr to go for development of Eastern Nagaland DIMAPUR: The Nagaland State Annual Plan outlay for 2012-13 has been fixed at Rs 2300 crores which represents a 27 per cent growth over last year’s plan outlay of Rs 1810 crore. The State plan outlay was fixed on June …
The North Eastern states will get Rs 100 crore this year from the Agriculture Ministry to promote cultivation of rice under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM). All eight NE States, including Sikkim, are being covered under NFSM for cultivation of rice this year. Till last year, only Assam was …
Kohima: Normal life was affected and property worth Rs 20 lakh got damaged in landslides triggered by sporadic heavy to medium rainfall throughout Nagaland for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday. According to sources here, four houses were washed away in a heavy landslides on the night of June 22 …
States with abundant natural resources and less economic activity are environmentally most sustainable in India, while it is just the opposite in the case of those with high intensity of economic activities, according to the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) here. The Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) for Indian …
Chennai Five north-eastern states along with Himachal Pradesh have been rated as the most environmentally sustainable states in the country, according to the Environmental Sustainable Index 2011 released today by a city-based think tank here. The report rates Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh in the top …
The Government of India has sought 1.5 billion US Dollars from the World Bank for implementing a part of the comprehensive plan to improve power transmission and distribution infrastructure in the North Eastern region and the project information document is likely to be prepared by the end of this month. …
This 5th June will be the 40th World Environment Day, marked by a world far removed from the hopeful, easy-on-commitment atmosphere of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm that inspired the ‘WED’ at its first anniversary. What we probably share is the irony — 1973 …
Uriamghat, June 6: Oil & Natural Gas Commission Ltd (ONGC) setting up shop along the inter-state border with Nagaland in both Jorhat and Golaghat districts has given Assam the muscle to protect its land in the disputed areas, which are constantly under threat of encroachment from across the border. Upper …
Scientists at the National Research Centre on Mithun (NRCM) at Jharnapani in Nagaland have broken new grounds by carrying out a successful embryo transfer, leading to the birth of the first ever mithun calf through this method. Mohan, as the newly-born calf has been christened, was delivered by a healthy …
