Non-Communicable diseases biggest killer in NE: Report
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
View ArticleDistribution of blood pressure & correlates of hypertension in school...
Elevated blood pressure (BP) in the young predicts serious cardiovascular events in the adults. High prevalence of adult hypertension reported from Assam, North east (NE) India may be linked with elevated
View ArticleEfforts on to make tea industry climate-smart
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
View ArticleVegetation fires, absorbing aerosols and smoke plume characteristics in...
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
View ArticleGrains for ecosystem carbon management in North East India
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
View ArticlePanel to study forest land in NE
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
View ArticleMolecular epidemiology of Amoebiasis: A cross-sectional study among North...
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
View ArticleBig quake coming, warn MHA experts
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
View ArticleScientists find tree frog believed extinct for more than 100 years
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,...
View ArticleHydrocarbon vision 2030 for North East India
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...
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding implementation of the 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...
View ArticleJudgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding forest clearance to the...
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Themrei Tuithung & Others Vs State of Manipur & Others dated 26/02/2016 regarding forest clearance granted
View ArticleRs.33,097 crore allocated for Northeast development
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
View ArticleJudgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding training of river Beki...
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 &
View ArticleConcern expressed over India's hydro-power plans
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...
View ArticleChanges in the seasonal cycle of carbon stocks and fluxes due to fires in the...
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
View ArticleIndia’s tuberculosis challenge
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
View ArticleJudgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding grant of Environmental...
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
View ArticleMulti cob-bearing popcorn (Puakzo) maize: a unique landrace of Mizoram, North...
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
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding brick kilns operating without...
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Joydeep Mukherjee Vs Pollution Control Board, Meghalaya & Others dated 13/05/2016 regarding brick kilns operating
View Article