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 could be in for a Goa-like scam of environmental violations with several hydroelectric projects coming up on the Teesta river basin without mandatory wildlife clearance, flouting Supreme Court orders, a team of the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) has warned in a report to the Union Environment and Forests …
An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale shook Sikkim and adjoining areas on Thursday, causing panic, officials said. There were no reports of damage or casualties. The India Meteorological Department in New Delhi said the quake, whose epicentre lay away from Gangtok, was felt at 11.43 am. The Sikkim …
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake, with its epicenter in Gangtok, Sikkim, hit the area at 11:57 am on Thursday, sending shocks throughout eastern Nepal. “We lie in the northern margin of the Indian plate and earthquakes here are caused by plate tectonic movement,” says Dilli Ram Tiwari, Survey Officer at the …
A report from Gangtok in Sikkim said some buildings had developed cracks and people were out on the streets An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Sikkim today, Regional Seismological Centre sources said here. The epicentre of the quake that struck at 11.43 AM was at a place …
About 13.3 per cent of youth in the country are unemployed according to the third annual employment and unemployment survey report conducted by the Labour Bureau of the Union Ministry of Labour and Unemployment. Interestingly, the highest unemployment percentage is among graduates, which is around 14 per cent, while there …
In a major boost to the North–East tourism sector, Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi has approved Central Finance Assistance (CFA) to various tourism development projects in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Nagaland. In order to promote tourism in Arunachal Pradesh, the Centre sanctioned an amount of Rs 463.34 …
Bangalore Urban ZP To Build 25,000 Loos This Year Bangalore: Owning a mobile is more important for many people in Bangalore Urban district, rather than having a toilet in the backyard. A survey conducted by Bangalore Urban zilla panchayat (ZP) recently threw up a nasty surprise: 34,656 households in the …
New Delhi, August 27: At a time when the 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP) has raised a hue and cry in Assam, as many as 19 power projects including twelve 3.918 MW hydel power projects are on cards in northeast. The power plants would be set up in …
The latest estimates of the Planning Commission states the decline in the number of poor in Sikkim from 1,70,000 to 51,000 in the seven year period between 2004-05 to 2011-12. These estimates have emerged from the latest NSS Household Consumer Expenditure Survey for 2011-12 (NSS 68th round) and are based …
With a forest cover 47.3 per cent of its total geographical area — more than double the national average of 21 per cent — Sikkim is India’s greenest State, official data shows. “The forest cover in the State, based on the interpretation of satellite data, is 3,359 sq km, which …
Sikkim has become the only state to have increased its forest cover in the past two decades and has launched an ambitious Rs 31 crore project of plantation in additional 1,000 hectares in the next five years to further enhance its green area. The forest cover in the tiny north-eastern …
Cultivable land in India continues to shrink. It may not pose an immediate problem for the nation’s food security but its long-term effect could be disastrous with the country needing more and more foodgrains to support its growing population. Latest data from the agriculture ministry shows that as many as …
Denying rampant destruction of forests in the Northeast, the Centre admitted that there was a reduction of 548 sq km of forest cover in comparison to the findings of the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2009. In Assam, the decrease has been attributed to illegal felling, encroachments in insurgency-affected …
Project, built at a cost of Rs 1,118 crore, will harness water flow from Rangpo, Rongli rivers Gati Infrastructure Private Limited (GIPL), a Hyderabad-based company focused on generating non-carbon power, has commissioned a 110-Mw hydro-electric power project in the northeastern state of Sikkim. The project, built at a cost of …
A 25 KW micro hydroelectric project commissioned by Sikkim Renewable Energy Development Agency (SREDA) was inaugurated at Hee-Bermiok today. The project which can generate electricity for around 500 bulbs was officially handed over to the Village Energy Committee by Chnadra Maya Subba, MLA of Maneybong-Dentam. Addressing the gathering, Subba urged …
Aizawl/Agartala: The Congress ruled-Mizoram government, which had earlier said it could not implement the food security scheme in the state due to fund crunch, on Thursday declared it would execute the plan. Congress-ruled Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh have also batted for the scheme but the remaining northeastern states …
Manipal University, which is known for its green initiatives, has bagged the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award for the second consecutive year. Union minister for petroleum and natural gas M Veerappa Moily conferred the award on the varsity at the 15th World Congress on Environment Management held in New Delhi. …
The deathly sludge that entombed most of Kedarnath town in just 24 hours on the evening of June 16 and on June 17 morning may have just changed life in the Indian Himalayas forever. Survivors say they witnessed tonnes of waterborne debris flattening almost anything that stood in the way. …
The Himalayas are depicted in popular iconography as the tough guys who stand tall—tallest, actually—protecting the subcontinent from invasions, both human and climatic. They command the monsoon clouds to rain over the subcontinent, bringing sustenance. There is just one little, but crucial, error in this imagery. The Himalayas are anything …
In the wake of the devastation in Uttarakhand, the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament Monday discussed a Comptroller and Auditor General report on ‘Disaster Preparedness in India’ and found major deficiencies in the disaster management system. It found, for instance, that NDMA’s National Executive Committee had not met even once …
