On medicinal value of Assam's plants

Fruit grain

From the blurbs

Dogs for dinner

Capital owners: Caste hierarchies and racial discrimination affect migrant lives in Delhi; here is how

‘Properties of Rent’ is about the tension between rapidly changing economic realities and parallel attempts by communities like Jats …

Climate crisis in North East India: An outlier in Arunachal, Upper Siang now experiences increased rainfall

Increased rainfall leads to decline in rice productivity: New diseases have emerged, pest attacks on the rise 

Railroad Blues

Illegal logging is being carried out in the Northeast under the guise of laying railway tracks

Stemming the root ?

While there are many who welcome the Supreme Court's ban on non-forest activities within forests because of its obvious advantages for the …

Shortchanged

What ails the economies of the eight northeastern states? The warped fiscal policies of the Union government

New cicada species in Nagaland underscores need for conservation

The main threat to many cicada species is their rapidly diminishing natural habitat

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

Under attack

Revamp, really?

Government juggles with data to rehash Northeast India's industrial policy

Internal attack

People of Manipur, Mizoram oppose Tipaimukh dam

Amongst those who count the dead in Manipur

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 …

Rice for kings

Black rice is indigenous to the Northeast, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha. In Manipur, it is considered food as well as part of traditional …

Won’t grant NOCs to uranium mining projects in Meghalaya: Khasi District Council

After the Centre reiterated its move to open up uranium mining in the state, the highest council of the Khasi community says it will not grant an NOC

Assam and its notion of nationhood

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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 …

Illicit Staple

Ritual offering, survival food, index of sophistication: what's pagan about northeast India's penchant for wild meat?

Monsoon 2022: Driest July on record for east and North East India

Both regions will continue to be in deficit for August and September, according to IMD

North-eastern states live in fear of drought

Monsoon ditched them so bad that they stare at lowest rain deficit in 13 years

Can the Northeast become a trade hub?

Or, will they be mere transit points?

Review report of Armed Forces (Speical Powers) Act