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 …
Hot spell in India kills 80 in eastern India. Heat waves now come earlier and stay longer. This latest special report by Down To Earth team covers the heat struck regions of India to figure out what is happening to the weather.......More» See Also: Feature: Rain shocked http://www.downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername=20090315&filename;=news&sid;=47&sec;_id=9 Factsheet: Death …
Sweltering heat radiated by the scorching sun is likely to batter the NE people until the advent of the southwest monsoon. The southwest monsoon is expected to cover the entire region normally by the first week of June. By this time, adding to the woes of the people, power supply …
ITANAGAR, May 12: The booming sound of guns at insurgency- affected Tirap district in Arunachal Pradesh will soon be replaced by agriculture activities, as the easternmost district of the state is all set for a green revolution. The district administration and agriculture department have planned an extensive double-cropping initiative in …
Flowering of bamboo is a botanical enigma. The factors responsible for this are still not clearly established. Bamboos flower only once and die after flowering to regenerate from seeds1. The strange phenomenon of simultaneous flowering in bamboo clumps in vast areas is called gregarious flowering and causes ecological havoc. (Correspondence)
Ajai Shukla / Tezpur (assam) May 05, 2009, 0:55 IST During the Second World War, Field Marshall William Slim, commander of the 14th Army in Burma, discovered that the anopheles mosquito was causing more casualties to his men than the Japanese. Ruthlessly practical, he decreed that catching malaria was a …
Ajai Shukla / Tezpur (assam) May 04, 2009, 0:27 IST The Defence R&D; Organisation (DRDO) offers intellectual challenges, but not an adventurous image. A DRDO director is perceived as a man in a white coat working in a laboratory or gazing at computer monitors. But the Defence Research Laboratory (DRL) …
The Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) here forecast probability of rain or thundershower at many places over Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh and at a few places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram during the next 24 hours since today noon. It has also warned possibilities of isolated thunder squall or hailstorm with …
Northeast India, being situated in the transition zone of Indian, Indo-Malayan and Indo-Chinese biogeographic regions, harbour a rich biological diversity, which is a well known fact. This is also a transition zone between the low-lying Indian peninsula and highlands of Himalayan mountain which also makes it an abode of diverse …
Plankton samples collected from Loktak Lake (a Ramsar site) during November 2002-October 2004 revealed 51 species of Cladocera belonging to 28 genera and 7 families. Loktak lake holds the richest Cladocera biodiversity known from any individual aquatic ecosystem of India, so far.
The tribes of Northeast India have been using jatropha seeds to light their huts at night. It contains 35 per cent fuel and is not edible. Best of all, it thrives in degraded land. And Dl-Williamson Magor Bio Fuel, a joint venture between tea major Williamson Magor and UK-based Dl-bp …
Cave fauna are unique and constitute one of the important components of biodiversity. The prevalence of cave organisms (cavernicoles) is always more in wet and longer caves compared to small and dry ones. Cavernicoles continue to evolve in the habitat characterized by complete darkness, constant temperature, high humidity and low …
Arunachal Pradesh, being the largest state in Northeast India, has unique biocultural resources. To enhance the sustainability of biocultural resources, a series of village workshops (15) were organized among the Adi community of Arunachal Pradesh. The objective was to explore and understand the dynamics of iocultural knowledge, livelihood, ecosystems and …
New Delhi: The government has decided to vaccinate the entire population living in the meningococcal meningitis affected areas of Meghalaya and Tripura. This will be the first time that government will undertake such a drive to combat a meningitis outbreak. WHO is procuring 3.5 lakh doses of the vaccine to …
Integrated Disease Vector Control (IDVC) project had its beginning in Kheda district of Gujarat way back in 1983. With the demonstrated success of malaria control using environmental approaches in select villages of Nadiad Taluka, the project jointly funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research and Ministry of Health and …
The severity of underemployment has been high in rural areas. Considering the severity of the rural unemployment problem, various special employment programmes have been introduced by the Government of India to provide employment opportunities through the creation and strengthening of rural infrastructure. One such employment programme was the Employment Assurance …
Forests and women are strongly interconnected with each other because women, particularly those living in rural areas or mountain areas, have a deep relationship with the forest ecology because they are responsible for gathering food, fuel, fodder, leaves and water for the family. Hence, women directly play an important role …
Arunachal Pradesh, falling under Easter Himalayan region one of the global mega-diversity centers, is a botanical paradise and the home of 110 ethnic communities (tribes) most of which are still forest dwellers and so diverse that they can not understand each others language. Hindi is gradually becoming popular among the …
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is one of the most important crops grown in the hilly regions of Meghalaya state in Northeast India. Land preparation for potato cultivation is carried out in an indigenous or traditional way, locally called Nur Bun method. "Nur" is the agricultural land unit in the local Khasi …
