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 …
Alarmed over the reported shrinkage of the 26-km Zemu glacier in the eastern Himalayas due to global warming, Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has sought an
Fresh landslides blocked NH31 and NH31A at Sevoke today, disrupting traffic from Siliguri to Sikkim and the Dooars for more than 10 hours. There were seven slides
Having declared the year 2010 as the Year of Tourism, the Sikkim Government has drawn up a plan incorporating as many as 13 local festivals in the list of popular events to be staged next year to woo tourists from across the country and abroad. Officials of the tourism department …
Cleanliness has always been acknowledged as a vital component for any successful venture, especially for quality tourism promotion in Sikkim which is already feeling the pinch of garbage littering by lakhs of tourists visiting this hilly State. In order to tackle unmanaged garbage which usually flies out from the windows …
Sarikah Atreya A tentative blueprint has been charted by the Sikkim Tourism Department to have year-round activities for its most ambitious project, `2010 - Year of Tourism'. Thirteen tourism festivals have been proposed from 2010 to February 2011. The State Government has already declared last year that the year 2010 …
The overall rainfall deficit in the State during this monsoon touched 30 per cent today. Disclosing this, Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) sources here said that Meghalaya has recorded the highest rainfall deficit of 76 per cent during this monsoon. On the other hand, Arunachal Pradesh has been witnessing a rainfall …
The construction of an alternative highway in land-locked Sikkim is expected to begin within the next six months, the State Government said today. Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways Kamal Nath directed his officials yesterday to expeditiously start the ground work for construction of the alternative highway within the …
The Sikkim Government has launched a over Rs 5-crore project to plant more than 500 species of medicinal and aromatic plants in the State. Under the project, being funded by National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), the Forest and Wildlife department would plant the seeds and saplings of rare medicinal plants, …
GANGTOK, June 18: A full-fledged geo-technical lab is set to ensure maximum land utilization in Sikkim. The state mines and Geology Department has initiated the task to modernise its laboratory to derive first hand data on different geological aspects of the Himalayan state. Mines and Geology Department director T Tashi …
GANGTOK, June 18: A Rs 5.07 crore project aimed at rejuvenating the endangered, rare, medicinal and aromatic plants was launched in Sikkim. The project, funded by National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), will run till 2011-12 and calls for propagation and conservation of threatened medicinal plants, trees and herbs in the …
The Sikkim Government has set a target of 85.90 per cent literacy rate in the State by 2012. The SDF-led government has meanwhile reconstituted the State Planning Commission to execute a number of developmental plans in Sikkim. The eight-member committee headed by Chief Minister Pawan Chamling, has former CM Sanchaman …
: GANGTOK, June 15: Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling has directed the State Forest Department to restore all the lost native tree species to have a 100 per cent green forest in Sikkim in line with the world famous Black Forest of Germany.
Rs 227.46 lakh proposal in 2009-10 action plan. The components of the draft plan also include infrastructure development, creating camp sites, boundary demarcation and awareness programmes besides monitoring and evaluation. Sarikah Atreya Gangtok, June 10 An amount of Rs 227.46 lakh have been proposed in the 2009-10 draft management action …
An attempt has been made to study the soil bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes population in Seabuckthorn stand soil at different altitudinal zones in different seasons. Among different altitudinal zones greater microbial population size was recorded in Seabuckthorn stand soil of middle elevation zone followed by lower elevation zone and lower …
GANGTOK (Morena), May 24: Three children died of food poisoning in MPs Morena district while four children of a family died in North Sikkim after consuming wild mushrooms after having wild mushroom in North Sikkim, as a family reunion in a household four days ago. Lizum Lepcha (One year and …
Undaunted by the landslide victory of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) in the Sikkim Assembly polls, an apolitical outfit has decided to carry on with its agitation against two proposed hydel projects in Dzongu region of North Sikkim.
