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 …
Tumor suppressor p53 is a critical player in the fight against cancer as it controls the cell cycle check point, apoptotic pathways and genomic stability. It is known to be the most frequently mutated gene in a wide variety of human cancers. Single-nucleotide polymorphism of p53 at codon72 leading to …
Since 1976, in the northeastern hill region of Mizoram intensive collections of maize landraces were made by ICAR-NBPGR, New Delhi and diversity of landraces maize from this region comprised 36% of the total collection from whole India, which was the highest number of accession among other regions . The maize …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Save Mon Region Federation & Others Vs Ministry of Environment and Forests & Others dated 07/04/2016 regarding grant of Environmental Clearance (EC) dated 19.4.2012 to the construction of 780 Mega Watts (MW) Nyam Jang Chhu Hydroelectric Project (NJC-HEP) in Tawang …
India has a large and heterogeneous tribal population of approximately 104 million. This accounts for 8.6 per cent of the total population and it is spread over a vast area. Apart from the States of the northeastern region, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkand, Maharashtra, Orissa and Gujarat have large tribal populations. …
Fire is a common perturbation in the grassland ecosystems throughout the world. Effect of fire on carbon stock, rate of C-accumulation and soil CO2 flux have been studied in Imperata cylindrica–Sporobolus indicus-dominated grassland community of Manipur, Northeast India. Original Source
India's water management issues have pushed the country to the top among 11 nations on the Environmental Justice Atlas, an interactive portal conceived by an international team that maps ecological conflicts, resistances and environmental injustices. The team has expressed concern over India's plans on hydro-power generation in Himachal Pradesh and …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs Union of India, Through Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change & Others dated 07/03/2016 regarding stay on all activities of the project “Training of river Beki on L/B and activation of …
An amount of Rs.33,097 crore has been allocated for development of North-eastern Region in the Union Budget which included a special fund of Rs.412 crore for promotion of organic farming. Presenting the Union Budget 2016-17, Finance Minister Arun Jaitely said Rs.33,097 crore has been earmarked for North-eastern Region across all …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Themrei Tuithung - Thoyee Village, Ukhrul District, Manipur & Others Vs Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of Manipur, Irrigation and Flood Control Department - Government of Manipur, Ministry of Tribal Affairs dated 26/02/2016 regarding forest …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Abinash Chandra Das Vs State of Tripura & Others dated 16/02/2016 regarding implementation of the Forest (Conservation) Act 1980, Tripura.
The Minister of State (IC) for Petroleum and Natural Gas released the Hydrocarbon Vision 2030 for north-east India, outlining steps to leverage the hydrocarbon sector for development of the region in Guwahati. Ministry of Petroleum and Natural gas (MoPNG) has consciously and constantly focused efforts towards making hydrocarbons a tool …
For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a vanished species, never again found in the wild. Until now. A group of scientists, led by renowned …
The Union home ministry's disaster management experts have warned of a bigger catastrophe, earthquakes with a magnitude of 8.2 or greater on the Richter scale which may hit the already ruptured Himalayan region. They say quakes with higher intensity than the one that struck Manipur on Monday are likely to …
Epidemiological studies carried out using culture or microscopy in most of the amoebiasis endemic developing countries, yielded confusing results since none of these could differentiate the pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica from the non-pathogenic Entamoeba dispar and Entamoeba moshkovskii. The Northeastern part of India is a hot spot of infection since the …
The Centre will constitute a committee to conduct a study on ownership of forest land in the Northeastern region. Informing this here on Tuesday, Union Minister of state for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said the objective of the committee is to ensure forests and environment are protected …
North East India (NEI) has 17.2 M ha under forest cover, which is ~25% of India’s total forest area. Of the total forest cover, 1.5 M ha is currently managed by shifting cultivation in NEI. Shifting cultivation, an integral part of culture and tradition of tribes of NEI, is presently …
In this study, researchers explored the relationships between the satellite-retrievedfire counts(FC), fire radiative power(FRP) and aerosol indices using multi-satellite datasets at a daily time-step covering ten different biomass burning regions in Asia.Wefirst assessed the variations inMODIS-retrieved aerosol optical depths (AOD’s)in agriculture,forests, plantation and peat land burning regions and then usedMODIS …
Rainfall has traditionally been plentiful for growing tea, especially in India but with recent changes in the climate, surface and ground water are becoming important irrigation systems. At a time when climate-change is impacting tea-cultivation in a major way, efforts are on to make tea estates climate-smart so that the …
Experts identified Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) as the biggest killer in NE and advised the states to go for massive prevention and control mechanism of the diseases. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientist Dr Prabhdeaep Kaur said on Thursday that they have launched a study in the region covering each …
ASSAM: India’s first High Voltage DC ± 800kV Transmission line from Biswanath Chariali (Assam) to Agra (U.P.) constructed by Power Grid Corporation of India Limited connecting the North-Eastern states is ready to exchange power from Sepetember 10. Apart from being the 1st ± 800 kV HVDC line, this line is …
