Slums and Society

A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and …

Passing the buck

Bamboo shock

The Mizoram government gears up to face the menace of bamboo flowering

Linear approach

Guns and poses

The Tripura government's plan to secure development for tribals

How the North East uses traditional means to harvest rain water

In Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura, people store and harvest rain water through traditional means  

Reserved for tigers

Mizoram revokes Forest Rights Act

State government misused Article 371 (G) to revoke FRA in Mizoram, critics allege

Mobile health system can help regulate hypertension, diabetes: study

Basic parameters such as blood sugar and cholesterol need to be fed into the mHealth system, called mWellcare

Mizoram revoked FRA due to stoppage of funding from Centre since 2014 

The resolution passed by the state assembly revoking the Act notes that the Union govt declined the state government's demand of Rs 10 lakh to …

As northwest India endures unusual dust storms, northeast gets flooded before monsoon arrives

The magnitude of floods is likely to increase by 25 per cent in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, parts of Meghalaya and Nagaland

Forest guardians

THE LAST FRONTIER: PEOPLE AND FORESTS IN MIZORAM·Daman Singh·Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi

Spice woes

Thousands of Mizoram farmers now face an impending financial crisis, thanks to the apathy of the state government

Organic states

Mizoram passes legislation to go fully organic, Sikkim already on the path

Disease claims over 2,000 pigs in Mizoram's Champhai district

Besides Champhai, another region called Lunglei has also shown cases of infection, but the casualties are far less

Prop review

By centre for forest scheme

It will take 55 years to have one-third women representatives in Parliament

Despite women voting in record numbers, Parliament didn’t enact the Women’s Reservation Bill that promised to keep aside a third of …

Rat menace

The flowering of the bamboo is bad news for the people in Mizoram

Dogs for dinner

The fire-fighting children of the Khasi Hills and the decline of traditional farming in north-east India

In North-east India, children of the Khasi Hills (Meghalaya) learn slash and burn cultivation, an intergenerational yet controversial indigenous …

Flash floods in Assam, Mizoram kill at least 12, destroy hundreds of houses

The IMD has predicted heavy to very heavy rain across the northeast over the week

Internal attack

People of Manipur, Mizoram oppose Tipaimukh dam

संसद में 33 प्रतिशत महिलाओं की उपस्थिति 55 साल में होगी

महिला मतदाताओं की बढ़ती संख्या के बावजूद विधानसभाओं में उनकी उपस्थिति बमुश्किल 7 से 8 प्रतिशत है। जबकि संसद में उनकी मौजूदगी महज 11 ...

Home remedies

Indigenous is the byword in the water harvesting techniques followed in India's northeast. In Meghalaya, an intricate network of bamboo pipes is …

'Fight to save Aizawl's river in legends'

Rochamliana, general secretary of the Zoram Research Foundation which works on river restoration, talks on the urgent need to protect the Chite …