Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raghubir Singh Garia Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 22/04/2025. The matter related to illegal mining of soap stone in village Papon, District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand. The complainant, a resident of the village said that illegal mining of soap stone …
Shillong: The State Forest department has requested the Central Government to direct the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun to conduct a detailed survey of the latest tiger population in the State. Talking to The Shillong Times here on Sunday, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest VK Nautiyal said the State had …
Shillong: In a first-of-its-kind in the Northeastern region, bitumen and waste plastic will be used in road construction in Shillong using a technology known for its durability, especially in extreme weather conditions. To start with, a four-km stretch in Jhalupara area of the city, which gets damaged every year due …
Concrete buildings in city adding to threat Shillong: Last month’s devastating earthquake, which shook Sikkim and the whole of North East and north India, has raised many questions amongst the people of the State over construction of concrete houses and buildings. In the past 30 years, Shillong has transformed from …
The northeast (NE) monsoon season (October, November and December) is the major period of rainfall activity over south peninsular India. This study is mainly focused on the prediction of northeast monsoon rainfall using lead-1 products (forecasts for the season issued in beginning of September) of seven general circulation models (GCMs). …
GUWAHATI, Sept 29 – Stating that the Centre has laid special emphasis on the Northeast, the Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Prof KV Thomas today informed that the proposal for construction of storage godown totalling capacity 5.4 lakh tonnes, at an estimated cost of …
India is a paradise for butterflies with a record of nearly 1501 species, of which, the presence of nearly 962 species is known from the biodiversity rich hotspot sectors of North East India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India published under the state fauna series have shown the occurrence …
The NE region is likely to experience a mega earthquake measuring 8 or more in the Richter scale in the near future, even though the process of making of this mega event has now been delayed by some ‘medium’ and ‘high-medium’ earthquakes releasing some amounts of the accumulated strain in …
In the wake of Sunday's 6.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked large parts of north, east and northeastern India and neighbouring Bangladesh and Nepal, the northeastern States are reviewing their preparedness to deal with any such disaster. According to the officials, Chief Ministers and Chief Secretaries of Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur …
AIZAWL, Sep 18 (IANS): 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 …
Shillong, Sept. 16: The maxim — it’s never too late to learn — aptly applies to Meghalaya legislators who were sensitised with the fundamentals of the flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in an animated interactive programme held here today. The venue — Hotel Pine-wood — resembled a legislature, where …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has identified serious irregularities in the implementation of the transport subsidy scheme and pointed out that in states like Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Nagaland, there is no system of periodic inspection of the units or checking of raw materials …
Dynamics of nitrous oxide (N2O) emission and the relationship of soil properties with N2O emission were studied from the tea ecosystem of North East India situated at north bank plain agroclimatic zone at Tezpur, Assam. The gas samples were collected from the tea bush at weekly intervals from 30 August …
The article reports projection of malaria by 2030 using A1B scenario of PRECIS model basically derived from HadRM3. Malaria scenario has been defined in terms of opening of months of malaria transmission based on minimum required temperature and relative humidity for baseline (1961–1990) and by 2030. Detailed analysis has been …
Assessment on impact of climate change on major crops in ecologically sensitive areas, viz. the Western Ghats (WG), coastal districts and northeastern (NE) states of India, using InfoCrop simulation model, projected varying impacts depending on location, climate, projected climate scenario, type of crop and its management. Irrigated rice and potato …
Climate change vulnerability profiles are developed at the district level for agriculture, water and forest sectors for the North East region of India for the current and projected future climates. An index-based approach was used where a set of indicators that represent key sectors of vulnerability (agriculture, forest, water) is …
NEW DELHI, Aug 9 – Faced with pleas for maintaining status quo, the Ministry Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) is likely to firm up a strategy on transport subsidy. At a meeting of the Industries Ministers of North-east states convened by Minister DoNER, Paban Singh Ghatowar, as part of …
The Himalayan state of Sikkim (7096 sqkm) has large concentration of snowfields and glaciers. Mapping and monitoring of seasonal snow cover and glaciers using field methods are very difficult in a mountainous terrain, like the Himalayas .Therefore remote sensing techniques have been used to monitor seasonal snow cover . The …
Dispelling apprehensions that the flow of the mighty Brahmaputra in India would be affected by a dam built by China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today that the government was keeping a close watch on the activities of its neighbour on the northeastern river, on which agriculture and economy of …
With China in mind, India is embarking on a major infrastructure drive in Arunachal Pradesh, with plans for three railway lines in the border state, including one to connect the strategic Tawang plateau with Assam. While the Defence Ministry has traditionally been discreet about its infrastructure projects in the North-East, …
