Centre to fund 90% of Project Tiger in Northeast

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 08:58

The Central government has increased its share of funding from the existing 50 percent to 90 percent for northeastern states under the Project Tiger scheme.

Northeast India's fifth software technology park in Tripura

Last Updated: Monday, May 28, 2012, 16:11

The Tripura government, supported by the Software Technology Park of India (STPI), is setting up a Software Technology Park(STP) to boost information technology in northeast India and to reach out to people of rural and remote areas with e-governance.

`Sustainable tourism way to go in northeast`

Last Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012, 09:40

Sustainable, niche and community-based tourism - and not that of the five-star or mass variety - is the way to go for realising the full potential of the northeast.

Kaziranga National Park conducts tiger census

Last Updated: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 16:26

Tiger census has begun in all the four forest ranges of the world famous Kaziranga National Park and is expected to be completed within 45 days.

New amphibian family found in Northeast India

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 09:52

Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India.

Cancer cases rise alarmingly in northeast: Experts

Last Updated: Friday, October 14, 2011, 13:40

Incidence of cancer has been rising alarmingly in the hilly northeastern region of India, almost half the cases being attributed to consumption of tobacco products, experts say.

‘Money constraint not hindering NE projects’

Last Updated: Saturday, September 17, 2011, 15:03

It is not monetary constraints which are hindering development projects in northeastern states, Union Minister of DoNER Paban Singh Ghatowar said.

Security tightened in northeast India ahead of Republic Day

Last Updated: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 17:48

The three relatively peaceful northeastern states - Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram - have tightened security arrangements, especially along the India-Bangladesh border, ahead of the Republic Day, officials said on Sunday.