Kohima : The Central Government has proposed developing a number of tourist destinations in parts of Nagaland that enjoy better access to the “mainland side” in terms of connectivity and the propos

The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for the year ending 31 March 2012 said the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) could not achieve gua

Kohima: Nagaland's annual plan for 2013-14 has been fixed at Rs 2000 crore.

The Forest Department of Nagaland has been providing cooking gas connections to villagers to stop deforestation in the state.

Indiscriminate felling of trees, poaching and unplanned development were creating problems for Nagaland, which was the face of climate change in the State, Environment and Wildlife Minister Y Patto

Nagaland People's Front MLA and new and renewable energy (NRE) department adviser KhriehuLiezietsu on Friday said the department would set up mega solar projects in the state and has begun discussi

Nagaland minister for health & family welfare Imkong L Imchen launched the Weekly Iron & Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) programme for adolescents on Tuesday.

M. Konyak, a farmer from Shanghah village of Mon — a remote district in Nagaland — is currently undergoing treatment for drug-resistant TB at the Civil Hospital in Mon town.

His village is a long way from the clinic and so each month, he has to take a bus early in the morning to reach the hospital to collect his monthly medication. The journey to the hospital takes him three to four hours over bumpy roads and sometimes just a dirt track. If he misses the bus back home at midday, which is the case more often than not, then he has to find somewhere to stay overnight as there is only one bus service back home.

India’s northeastern state Nagaland has declared independence from the Union oil ministry and invited bids for 11 exploration blocks in the state without involving the petroleum ministry, which has rushed to the home ministry in protest.

The centre was caught napping, when Nagaland invited “expressions of interest” from oil companies after setting up a ministerial group on petroleum, officials in the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, technical arm of the oil ministry, told ET.
“It appears that this action of the state government of Nagaland is ultra vires of the Constitution,” director general of hydrocarbons RN Choubey said in a letter to the oil ministry.

Kohima: Nagaland is fast advancing with the New Renewable Energy and introduced a 50 Kilo Watt (KW) of energy capacity Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Power Plant the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre (NBRC) in Dimapur, which acquired as an answer to the frequent power shortages that hinders the smooth operation of the Centre.

According to official sources here on Friday, MLA and Adviser to Nagaland Bamboo Develop-ment Agency L Temjen Jamir, formally unveiled the 50 KW capacity power plants on Thursday at the NBRC and the 200 Solar Panels installed at the NBRC with a capacity to generate 150-175 units of energy everyday and would be able to provide full-capacity power backup for three hours flat.