Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
SHILLONG: The Union Ministry of Development of North East Region (DoNER) has initiated the Climate Change Adaptation North Easter Region (CCANER) Project in partnership with the German Development Cooperation and the State Governments of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Sikkim to strengthen the rural livelihood resilience and also to adaptability to the …
SHILLONG: The Union Ministry of Development of Northeastern Region (DoNER) has initiated the Climate Change Adaptation North-eastern Region (CCANER) Project in partnership with the German Development Cooperation and the State Governments of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Sikkim to strengthen the rural livelihood resilience and also adaptability to the impacts of climate …
Agartala: Forest Survey of India (FSI) Report 2009 has indicated a steady increase of forest cover in northeastern India. The report came in the wake of allegation of deforestation due to developmental activities coupled with increase of population and continuous practice of Jhumming (slash and burn method of agriculture) by …
Leading ecologists, wildlife biologists, conservation experts and research scholars of the country on Thursday came up with a number of workable strategies to meet conservation challenges in the northeast at the conclusion of the three-day Young Ecologists Talk and Interact (YETI), 2011, held at the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati. Initiating …
Young Ecologists Talk and Interact (YETI), the largest student-organised academic conference on ecology and conservation, brought together over 300 students and researchers of ecology on a single platform at IIT-Guwahati here on Tuesday for a three-day-long deliberations on latest biodiversity and conservation issues. The conference kick started with Professor S.K. …
AGARTALA: Climate change has taken it’s toll on agriculture sector of northeast over the years, which prompted the scientists to go for vulnerability assessment and issuing warning to both farming community and agriculture mangers. Scientists had observed higher agricultural vulnerability in the northern parts of the region and the same …
DIMAPUR: The Nagaland Power Department has set two objectives to be achieved by the end of the 12th five year plan: to meet the projected power requirement of 400 MW and achieve the national target of 1,000 units per capita consumption. However, with the present power position of the state …
NEW DELHI: The Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Paban Singh Ghatowar has said that the Planning Commission is involved in the finalisation of the annual plans of the States of Northeast. The size of each year’s plan is finalised based on the available resources of …
AGARTALA: The electricity crisis in Northeastern India is set to ease when the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s (ONGC) first mega power project- the largest in the region- starts generating power by April next year. “State-owned ONGC’s 726-MW generating capacity first major power project in India will start producing electricity …
An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale rocked India's northeast, Myanmar and Bangladesh on Monday, triggering panic among people. The tremor was felt at 8.47 a.m. in most parts of Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur, besides in Bangladesh and Myanmar. The epicentre was located at 24.947°N, 95.226°E in Myanmar, about …
SHILLONG: Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma has informed that the State has drafted a mission document for the development of tourism in the State. “The proposed mission document would be finalized very shortly in consultation with all the stakeholders,” Dr Sangma, who is also in charge of Tourism, said during …
GUWAHATI: The country’s North Eastern region is rich in medicinal plants, but indiscriminate and unscientific collection is forcing many of the species into the verge of extinction, say experts. This matter was raised in a recent seminar organised by the apex funding institution of the region, the North Eastern Development …
New Delhi: A meeting of India’s top seismologists and earthquake specialists, which discussed issues arising from the Sikkim earthquake, has strongly recommended that northeastern states set up their own state disaster response units instead of being dependent on centralised forces like the National Disaster Response Force. In addition, the national …
SHILLONG: Israeli experts will help Meghalaya to improve fish farming in the northeastern state, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has said. Launching an awareness campaign about a state aquaculture mission, Sangma said late Thursday: “Experts from Israel have been invited to study and suggest measures to further improve fish farming by …
State-run Corporation to set up Mawphu Stage II, East Garo Hills thermal projects SHILLONG: In an attempt to improve the power scenario in the State, a decision has been taken to hand over two more power projects to the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO). Union Minister of State …
AGARTALA: Northeastern India’s first textile park will be set up in Tripura, a Minister said here on Sunday. “The proposed park in Tripura is part of the 21 new textile parks to be set up under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP),” Tripura Industries and Commerce Minister Jitendra Chowdhury …
Agartala: India will engage 100,000 educated youths to execute an ambitious Green India Mission (GIM) which seeks to increase the country’s forest cover to 33 percent from 20 percent within 10 years, says a top forest official. P.J. Dilip Kumar, director general of India’s forest department, says that in order …
GUWAHATI: The prevalence of tobacco use in any form is highest in the Northeast. Mizoram has the highest prevalence of tobacco use, around 67.2 per cent. Ironically, Mizoram also has the highest literacy rate in the country. In Assam tobacco use is 39 per cent which is a little higher …
AGARTALA/AIZAWL: Incidence of cancer has been rising alarmingly in the hilly northeastern region of India, almost half the cases being attributed to consumption of tobacco products, experts say. According to experts, Mizoram tops the rate of cancer patients with an incidence of 200 in 100,000 each year. Though other northeastern …
it is business as usual for timber traders of the Northeast despite the Supreme Court's ( sc 's) interim ban dated December 17, 1996, on felling and movement of timber. Their business flourishes under the guise of developmental work by the government, which is exempted from the ban. A prime …
