A report from Gangtok in Sikkim said some buildings had developed cracks and people were out on the streets

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Sikkim today, Regional Seismological Centre sources said here. The epicentre of the quake that struck at 11.43 AM was at a place in Sikkim whose latitude and longitude were 27.4 degree N and 88.5 degree E respectively, the sources said.

About 13.3 per cent of youth in the country are unemployed according to the third annual employment and unemployment survey report conducted by the Labour Bureau of the Union Ministry of Labour and

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

Bangalore Urban ZP To Build 25,000 Loos This Year

Bangalore: Owning a mobile is more important for many people in Bangalore Urban district, rather than having a toilet in the backyard.
A survey conducted by Bangalore Urban zilla panchayat (ZP) recently threw up a nasty surprise: 34,656 households in the district don’t have toilets. Which means the families defecate in the open.

New Delhi, August 27: At a time when the 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP) has raised a hue and cry in Assam, as many as 19 power projects including twelve 3.918 MW hydel power

The latest estimates of the Planning Commission states the decline in the number of poor in Sikkim from 1,70,000 to 51,000 in the seven year period between 2004-05 to 2011-12.

Sikkim has become the only state to have increased its forest cover in the past two decades and has launched an ambitious Rs 31 crore project of plantation in additional 1,000 hectares in the next

With a forest cover 47.3 per cent of its total geographical area — more than double the national average of 21 per cent — Sikkim is India’s greenest State, official data shows.

Cultivable land in India continues to shrink. It may not pose an immediate problem for the nation’s food security but its long-term effect could be disastrous with the country needing more and more foodgrains to support its growing population.

Denying rampant destruction of forests in the Northeast, the Centre admitted that there was a reduction of 548 sq km of forest cover in comparison to the findings of the India State of Forest Repor