Natural Disasters

 Unprepared

Conventional thinking has it that floods are caused by excessive rainfall. ARCHITA BHATTA finds out that wasn't necessarily the case this year While people in the flood-affected areas are

Publication Date: 
14/09/2007
Archita Bhatta
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Floods, Nepal, Arunachal, Uttar Pradesh, Rainfall
Economy

SEZs: A Catalyst for Growth

How does a country of over a billion people take on the challenge of providing a better life to its citizens?

Publication Date: 
30/07/2007
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Economic Development, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Government Of India (GOI), Arunachal, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Infrastructure Development
Agriculture

 Arunachal's 'economic development' does not bode well for women

FOR many observers, Arunachal Pradesh is an

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
Aparimita Mishra
Down to Earth
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Environment, Agriculture, Forest Products, Development, Women, Conflicts, Tourism, Economic Development, India, Arunachal, Food Security, Land Resources
Water Resources

Stories from the Asia water wire

The book is a compilation of articles written in 2005 and 2006 as part of a series about water and development. Most of the stories in the Asia Water Wire are the product of reporting on the ground by local journalists, many of whom attended a series of water workshops by the Asian Development Bank in the last few years.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2006
Johanna Son
IPS Asia-Pacific Center Foundation Inc
Tags:
Environment, Rivers, Bhopal, Water Harvesting, Dams, Dam Safety, Development, Hydroelectricity, Slums, Asia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Arunachal, Water Resources
India

 Medicinal plant rediscovered in Arunachal Pradesh

an endangered medicinal plant has been rediscovered in Arunachal Pradesh after about a century. Scientists of the Botanical Survey of India came upon the Begonia tessaricarpa in the Ligu village

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Subansiri, Endangered Species, Medicinal Plants, Flora, Botany, Arunachal
Water Resources

 People sceptical of Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Management Authority Bill

the Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Management Authority Bill, 2006 has been passed by the sixty-member Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly in its October session. However, it has constituted a

Publication Date: 
14/12/2006
TONGAM RINA
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Legislation, India, Arunachal
Climate Change

Why we should worry

From atop the 13,600-ft high windswept crest of a steep, serrated ridge, the Samudra Tapu glacier is a giant blanket of ice and snow, covering the bowl-shaped valley between jagged Himalayan peaks

Publication Date: 
06/11/2006
Ramesh Vinayak
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Glaciers, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Glacial Melt, Hydroelectricity, Food Crops, Global Warming, Remote Sensing, TERI, IPCC, Climate Impacts, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Arunachal, Sikkim, Climate Change, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Jammu & Kashmir
Environment

Uneven rainfall

THE total seasonal rainfall during the year's southwest monsoon (June 1 to September 30) for the country as a whole was 99 per cent of its long-period average (LPA), which, being within plus or minus 10 per cent of the LPA, can be termed as a `normal' monsoon.

Publication Date: 
03/11/2006
R. Ramachandran
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, North East, Monsoons, Drought, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Arunachal, Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh, Rainfall Pattern
India

 Arunachal Pradesh signs MoUs for hydroelectric projects

on september 22, 2006, the Arunachal Pradesh government signed three mou s with central power undertakings for the development of upto 15,000 mw hydroelectric projects. The projects represent

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
TONGAM RINA
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Dams, Hydroelectricity, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Public Sector, India, Arunachal
Industry

 New bird species found in Aruncahal Pradesh

A new bird species has been discovered in the Eagle Nest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh.

The discovery of the bird, which belongs to the genus Liocichla was reported in the journal Indian Birds (Vol 2, No 4, July-August 2006). Only 14 specimen of the bird, named Bugun liocichla (Liocichla bugunorum), are known to exist.

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
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Birds, Eagle Nest SA, Arunachal

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