The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is undertaking multi-state mega mock exercises, covering the eight states of the NE region, on March 10 and 13 next to assess the gap in the earthq

Agartala: The World Bank would provide the major share of a Rs.8,150-crore project to create infrastructure in the power sector in six northeastern states, officials said here Tuesday.

State–owned ONGC’s first commercial power project in the country started commercial production on Tuesday night in Tripura, six months after President Pranab Mukherjee dedicated the 726 MW capacity

A couple of projects that the home ministry says are vital to national security have become a collateral casualty to the regime of slow environmental clearances, which has affected investment and i

Assam has completed over 22,000 schemes under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) between April 2010 and November this year.

Health activists and civil society organisations have commended the state health minister’s decision to set up a multi-stakeholder committee to formulate the Maharashtra Clinical Establishment Act

One development plan that seems to be moving backwards in poll-bound Mizoram is hydro power.

“We have said many times we are going to dam all our rivers,” Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla had said when this journalist asked AICC general secretary Luizinho Faleiro in September how the party intends to boost the state’s debt-ridden economy if it wins again.

The Centre has identified 22 river stretches in the northeastern States which could be developed for cargo transportation.

“The identified river stretches have been shared with the concerned State governments and they have been requested to send proposals for assistance. So far only three proposals have been received, one of which have been sanctioned,” said a top official in the Shipping Ministry.