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 …
Sikkim is a small, mountainous, Indian state (7,096 km2) located in the eastern Himalayan region. Though a global biodiversity hotspot, it has been relatively less studied. A detailed forest type, density and change dynamics study was undertaken, using SATELLITE remote sensing data and intensive field verification.
Sikkim is a small, mountainous, Indian state (7,096 km2) located in the eastern Himalayan region. Though a global biodiversity hotspot, it has been relatively less studied. A detailed forest type, density and change dynamics study was undertaken, using satellite remote sensing data and intensive field verification. The landscape was found …
Understanding diversity patterns and the mechanisms underlying those patterns along elevational gradients is critically important for conservation efforts in montane ecosystems, especially those that are biodiversity hotspots. Despite recent advances, consensus on the underlying causes, or even the relative influence of a suite of factors on elevational diversity patterns has …
An earthquake measuring 5.9 in the Richter Scale rocked the entire Northeastern region for a few seconds at around 8.47 am this morning creating panic among the people who are still being haunted by the recent earthquake that devastated Sikkim. However, there were no reports of any major damage due …
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday approved a Rs.683 crore project to improve the living standards of rural areas in four north-eastern States – Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura – fighting high poverty ratios. The plan, North East Rural Livelihood Project, or NERLP, was approved by the Cabinet Committee on …
NEW DELHI: The state government may be trying to project Delhi as a world-class city, but the findings by "India's Child Rights Index", a first-of-its-kind report released on Wednesday, paint a different picture. The city ranks 12 in the country when it comes to ensuring well-being of children - assessed …
Agartala: Altogether 2000 buildings including Neer Mahal, Raj Bhavan and Ujjayanta Palace have been identified as potential structures for retrofitting work keeping in mind Tripura’s vulnerability to earthquake. “In course of a preliminary study, experts identified at least 2000 buildings across the state which need retrofitting given their long existance,” …
Forest ecosystems assume a significant role in climate change mitigation by the virtue of being one of the largest terrestrial carbon sinks. In India, Sikkim is one of the most pro-active states in leading the implementation of conservation policies and is recognised as a key conservation hub. Sikkim adopted a …
The Biodiversity of Sikkim faces a number of threats due to biotic as well as abiotic factors. It is essential to identify these factors so that the remedial measures can be taken to strengthen the conservation and management of biological diversity in the state. Sikkim Biodiversity Action Plan (SBAP) contains …
DARJEELING, 10 OCT: The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) leadership today demanded a Rs 1,000-crore special package at par with Sikkim for reconstruction, relief, rehabilitation and restoration work in and around Darjeeling, following the devastation in the earthquake. The GJMM leadership today placed this demand while meeting chief minister Miss …
DIMAPUR: The recent earthquake that devastated Sikkim has also jolted Nagaland state to launch its own State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) to face any disaster, natural or man-made. The training of the first batch of SDRF drawn from Alpha Company of the ‘Daring Ninth’ (9 IRB-NAP) was formally inaugurated on …
The Delhi government has decided to contribute Rs 5 crore in the Prime Minister's Relief Fund for Sikkim earthquake victims. There has been a substantial loss of property and lives in the earthquake and there is a need to provide assistance to the affected people. "It is our duty to …
DARJEELING, 26 SEPT: A major landslide in Lebong Cart Road, Darjeeling near Sharma Garage that took place last night has snapped road connectivity in the interiors of Darjeeling. Traffic in the road that links Singamari, Lebong, and other parts in the region has come to a grinding halt following the …
Rescuers on Thursday finally reached some of the villages in India's remote northeast that were cut off by a powerful earthquake that rattled the Himalayan region last weekend, as the death toll in the disaster climbed past 100. An Indian villager and a child, evacuated by helicopter from Chungthang, de-board …
Sunday's earthquake, which left a trail of destruction in Sikkim, has caused massive damage to some structures at two of the five project sites of the 1,200-megawatt hydro-power project in the upper reaches of the Teesta river. It claimed the lives of 16 workers and officials and caused injuries to …
A company building a hydroelectric power plant confirmed Wednesday that 17 of its workers had died and seven were critically injured as a result of the earthquake that shook the Himalayas in and around the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim on Sunday. The state’s chief minister, Pawan Chamling, told reporters …
The Sikkim earthquake has not impacted the functioning of the country’s 20 nuclear power plants with a total generation capacity of 4,780 Mw. Their continued function proves that the nuclear power plant structures, systems and equipment have been designed in a way that enables them to take the effect of …
SHILLONG: Another mild intensity earthquake of 4.3 magnitude on the Richter Scale shook parts of Meghalaya at 12:52 am on Monday, under seven hours after Sunday evening’s 6.8 magnitude tremor. According to an official from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Upper Shillong, the epicenter of the quake was located in …
AIZAWL: The Central government has sanctioned 134 projects worth Rs.2,610 crore for poverty alleviation, development of infrastructure and providing basic services in the urban areas of the eight Northeastern states, an official release said here Sunday. “Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), 134 projects with a cost …
Shillong, Sept. 19: Last evening’s quake in Sikkim and Bengal also shook Jaintia Hills not just with tangible tremors but with fears of what an earthquake of higher magnitude could do to its roads and buildings, weakened as they are by rat hole mining. In the coal belt, where unscientific …
