Agartala/Aizawl : A 5.5-magnitude earthquake in the Myanmar-India border region on Tuesday rocked Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya and some other parts of northeast India, but there was no repor

Case of 15 ‘missing’ miners

TURA: Farmers in the plains belt region of West Garo Hills who have had their standing crops washed away in the recent floods are calling upon the government to waive their loans.

SHILLONG: After slapping closure notices on several city hotels and guest houses for failing to install Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs) and releasing untreated polluted water directly to the river

SHILLONG: The state government has written to Union Ministry of Environment and Forest on July 28 to hold a meeting to discuss the finalization of mining plan, mining policy and mining guidelines.

Mukul undertakes aerial survey of flood hit areas in Garo Hills

In an effort to restore green cover in Meghalaya's Garo Hills, a slew of new development works have been initiated to halt the degeneration of the environment.

Despite decades of concerted global conservation efforts, biodiversity loss continues unabated, making it important to assess the effectiveness of conservation approaches. Using forest cover as a proxy for conservation effectiveness, we analysed land-use and land-cover changes across a community and a state forest of Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, India. Forest losses in the community lands (77.94 sq. km) were higher compared to the state forest (11.48 sq. km) between 1994 and 2014, and were driven by mining, industry, plantations and agriculture.

Modi government’s North East push will only see 7.5 per cent road target achieved

SHILLONG: The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) is planning to set up a processing plant at Mawthabah in connection with uranium mining.

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