India

 At the crossroads

As the debate continues, the Northeast must stamp the decision: log out of forest bureaucracy and log in to local based prosperity

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forest Resources, Deforestation, Forest Products, Trade, Biodiversity, Timber Industry, Legislation, Supreme Court, Malaysia, Myanmar, India, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura
India

 Extremely damning

This multi purpose project has the potential of solving the region s problems but at enormous environmental cost

Publication Date: 
14/08/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Barak, Dams, Irrigation, Flood Control, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Electricity, Thermal Power Plants, Unemployment, Manipur
India

 Piercing problem

The syringe exchange programme to contain the spread of AIDS in Manipur has no takers

Publication Date: 
14/05/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Care, AIDS, India, Manipur
India

 Mess in Manipur

there is no respite for Manipur. The state reported 75 per cent aids cases out of the total number of hiv-positive cases determined in the country till December 1996. Two anti-aids activists

Publication Date: 
14/04/1997
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Drugs, AIDS, India, Manipur
India

 Under siege

The impasse in Manipur, which represents the festering unrest in the entire Northeast, needs a caring administrative policy, not bullets and raids

Publication Date: 
14/02/1996
Sanjay Ghose
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Tags:
Kuki, Naga, Conflicts, Manipur
India

 Dam alert

The construction of the Thoubal multi purpose dam and the Tapaimukh dam in Manipur has sparked off protests

Publication Date: 
29/09/1994
Sajal Nag
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Dams, India, Manipur
India

 Shame puts the cork back in liquor bottles

Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed in Haryana and drinking there has increased.

Publication Date: 
29/06/1993
Amit Mitra
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Women, Children, Alcoholism, Haryana, Manipur
India

 A lesson in sobriety

A story in an adult literacy primer inspired women in Andhra Pradesh to take up the anti arrack drive.

Publication Date: 
29/06/1993
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Women, Children, Alcoholism, Haryana, Manipur
India

 A shut and open case

A Haryana panchayat is trying to reopen a liquor vend, ostensibly to curb illegal alcohol consumption in the village.

Publication Date: 
29/06/1993
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Women, Children, Alcoholism, Haryana, Manipur
Energy

Pre-paid power supply in Manipur from April

Maphou Dam site (Manipur), Feb 27

Publication Date: 
28/02/2011
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Manipur, Power Transmission, Electricity, Energy, Bongaigaon (D), Lower Subansiri

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