Guwahati: A rare purple-blue alpine flower, last collected in India by legendary British botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1867 in Sikkim, has been rediscovered after 158 years by the scientists of the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) in Arunachal Pradesh.BSI stated, Dr Sudhansu Sekhar Dash, Dr Subhajit Lahiri, and Monalisa Das “have rediscovered the…
Agartala: Tripura has emerged as the poorest performer among NE states in utilising funds from the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).Recent data published on the Empowered India digital platform placed the state at 22nd out of India’s 36 states and Union Territories, with an overall fund utilisation rate of only 22.78%, which…
Mani Ratnam with Avik Mukhopadhyay during the Kolkata recee of his film early this month Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari met actor-producer Anupam Kher on Friday and pledged full support for his upcoming co-production, ‘Shuru Theke Shuru’, which is set in Kolkata. Kher’s return to Bengali film production — his first since Rituparno Ghosh’s ‘Bariwali’ 26…
Sikkim does not reveal itself all at once. Roads twist through forests, villages appear unexpectedly on mountain slopes, and distant snow peaks seem to shift with every bend. Despite being India’s second-smallest state, it contains an astonishing variety of landscapes. Monasteries stand above river valleys, glacial lakes sit beneath windswept ridges, and quiet towns offer…
Shillong: Meghalaya will host the North East India Infrastructure Summit & Exhibition (NEIINFRA Summit) at Mawkasiang in Shillong on June 15 and 16.The Federation of Industry & Commerce of North Eastern Region (FINER) is set to organise the summit with the Meghalaya govt as the host state and Build India — an organisation focused on…
Pune: The IMD has forecast rains for Pune this week and said the city may experience “mainly clear skies, becoming partly cloudy towards afternoon or evening with likely thunderstorm, lightning and light rain.”The southwest monsoon entered Maharashtra on Saturday and is expected to cover other parts of the state over the week. “Existing weather conditions…
Bengaluru: Karnataka has recorded the steepest fall in spousal violence, according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) fact-sheet, dropping from 44.4% to 14.1% of ever-married women reporting abuse between 2019-21 and 2023-24.The decline of over 30 percentage points dwarfs every other state. Nationally, India’s spousal violence rate fell from 29.2% to 22.3%. Karnataka topping…
NEW DELHI: India has recorded a significant decline in infant deaths over the past decade, with the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) falling to 24 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. Yet behind the national progress lies a sharply uneven picture, with some states approaching developed-world child survival standards while others continue to struggle with…
As school students, many of us first encountered Sikkim through geography textbooks and atlases that spoke of the mighty Khangchendzonga. The “mountain massif” stood before our imagination as distant Himalayan peaks wrapped in Lungta prayer flags, clouds and snow. Nearly one-fourth of Sikkim’s land is embraced by the Khangchendzonga National Park, but facts alone never…
