The Annual Plan for Manipur for 2012-13 was on Wednesday pegged at Rs.3,500 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi.

During the discussions on the State's performance, Mr. Ahluwalia pointed out that while Manipur has been performing satisfactorily, the gaps in infrastructure needed to be bridged on priority basis and that the State government should encourage private participation in development of this sector.

Scientists at the National Research Centre on Mithun (NRCM) at Jharnapani in Nagaland have broken new grounds by carrying out a successful embryo transfer, leading to the birth of the first ever mi

AIZAWL, May 18 – The 4th Meeting of the Expert Consultative Committee held here on Saturday has called for the formulation of a separate textile policy for NE.

The Railways have projected an outlay of Rs 17,495 crore for completion of 13 new line projects in the North Eastern region.

Silchar: World Bank would give Rs 13,000 crore for infrastructrual development of power generation facilities in the Northeast which would be executed by Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL).

World Bank would give Rs 13,000 crore for infrastructrual development of power generation facilities in the North East, which would be executed by Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL).

Projects to be executed by Power Grid Corp

World Bank would give Rs 13,000 crore for infrastructural development of power generation facilities in the North East which would be executed by Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL), a company official said. PGCIL Chairman-cum-Managing Director R N Nayak said here today the company was keen to improve the power scenario in the region and had executed several long-term and short-term projects in it.

Significant tiger presence has been confirmed in Mizoram’s Dampa reserve forest through DNA fingerprinting techniques.

The presence of the big cats were confirmed during a joint field survey was conducted with the forest reserve’s field directorate, World Wildlife Fund and Aaranyak, a society for biodiversity conservation, in March this year as art of the country-wide phase four of tiger monitoring programme initiated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).

Agartala: Oil giant ONGC along with a Vietnamese company will launch joint exploration for oil in the South China Sea despite objections from China, a top company official said on Tuesday.

“There is nothing wrong in it. ONGC-Videsh has got this asignment through an international bid and we will go ahead with our exploration work with a Vietnamese oil company,” ONGC Chairman and Managing Director Sudhir Vasudeva said here.