Setting a blistering pace, Tamil Nadu has halved its infant mortality rate (IMR) in the past decade while abunch of other states – Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka – have shown significant decreases

NEW DELHI, October 20: A fact that is likely to generate a wide–scale controversy amongst the environmental activists in the northeastern States, as many as 10,846.6382 hectares of forest land was

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has always been advocating human intervention based on scientific research combined with people's participation to ensure effective conservation of the rem

AIDS Initiative was launched in 2003 in six States

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Avahan programme may have prevented over 6 lakh HIV infections in India over 10 years, according to a report in Lancet Global Health .

The report outlines the importance of participatory land-use planning (PLUP) to reverse land degradation, conserve biodiversity, and maintain ecosystem services. PLUP identifies optimal solutions for alternative land-use, taking into account local socio-economic conditions and livelihood strategies.

Only 15 states have so far set up their own respective State Disaster Response Force following direction from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) earlier this year.

In a major boost to the North–East tourism sector, Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi has approved Central Finance Assistance (CFA) to various tourism development projects in the States of Arunac

Kohima: Oting and Longlem villages under Tizit Assembly Constituency in Mon district of Nagaland remained cut-off from the rest of the district due to heavy mudslide August 16.

Kohima: At least 70.9 per cent of the population of Nagaland is estimated to be covered under the National Food Security Ordinance 2013.

As many as 10 lakh cancer cases have already been detected in India in current year with the case load set to shoot to 11.48 lakh by 2015 and 13.20 lakh by 2020.

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