The North Eastern states will get Rs 100 crore this year from the Agriculture Ministry to promote cultivation of rice under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM).

Rs 300 cr to go for development of Eastern Nagaland

DIMAPUR: The Nagaland State Annual Plan outlay for 2012-13 has been fixed at Rs 2300 crores which represents a 27 per cent growth over last year’s plan outlay of Rs 1810 crore. The State plan outlay was fixed on June 26 in a meeting held at the Planning Commission between Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio.

Kohima: Normal life was affected and property worth Rs 20 lakh got damaged in landslides triggered by sporadic heavy to medium rainfall throughout Nagaland for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday.

According to sources here, four houses were washed away in a heavy landslides on the night of June 22 at Officer Colony Old Police Line in Tuensang town. Some domestic animals like pigs were also washed away by the landslides besides damaging household properties.

States with abundant natural resources and less economic activity are environmentally most sustainable in India, while it is just the opposite in the case of those with high intensity of economic activities, according to the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) here.

The Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) for Indian States 2011, a study by the Centre for Development Finance under the 1970-founded IFMR, notes that the index for two years — 2009 and 2011 — shared this common characteristic.

Chennai Five north-eastern states along with Himachal Pradesh have been rated as the most environmentally sustainable states in the country, according to the Environmental Sustainable Index 2011 released today by a city-based think tank here.

The report rates Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh in the top slots in its Environmental Sustainable Index 2011. It was released by Centre for Development Finance (CDF), affiliated to Institute for Financial Management and Research.

The Government of India has sought 1.5 billion US Dollars from the World Bank for implementing a part of the comprehensive plan to improve power transmission and distribution infrastructure in the

This 5th June will be the 40th World Environment Day, marked by a world far removed from the hopeful, easy-on-commitment atmosphere of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in

Uriamghat, June 6: Oil & Natural Gas Commission Ltd (ONGC) setting up shop along the inter-state border with Nagaland in both Jorhat and Golaghat districts has given Assam the muscle to protect

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

Kohima, May 8: Civil society groups have objected to the construction of a hydel project at Tamanthi on the Chindwin river in Myanmar.