Tourism Promotion in North East India Key Mandate in the Twelfth Plan
The Ministry of Tourism, through its various plans and schemes, has been working for the development and promotion of tourism in the North Eastern Region.
Ecotourism Society of North East India Celebrates ‘Tree Bihu’ in Assam
The Ecotourism Society of North East India has been celebrating ‘Tree Bihu’, a unique tree plantation festival woven around Rongali Bihu which marks the onset of the Assamese New Year and the coming of Spring! The festival urges people to plant at least one tree in the first week of the New Year!
Invitation to Seminar on Land, Identity and Rights: the Problem of Tribal in Manipur
The Tangkhul Scholars’ Association (TSA), a Delhi based group working towards creating a platform to raise issues ranging from social to economic to political from academic point of view, is organising a one day seminar on “Land, Identity and Rights: Read More
Panos South Asia Announces Media Fellowships on Big Dams in Northeast India
Panos Institute South Asia’s RELAY programme invites print/web and television journalists to apply for the ‘Reporting research media fellowship programme’ on dams and development in Northeast India. Three print/web and one television fellowship will be awarded to candidates who regularly Read More
NE Turns to Risk Reduction and Disaster Preparedness
Effective warning systems and adequate preparedness to mitigate disaster events is critical to the survival and sustainability of any nation today. In order to sensitize the policy makers of the NER about this, a National Workshop on “Earthquake Risk Mitigation Strategy in the North East” was recently organised at Guwahati by the NIDM, NDMA, NEC and the Govt of Assam.
India to Get its First Bamboo Park in Tripura
Bamboo and North East India are symbolic to each other. One will find the grass-tree almost adorning the face of NER across all the eight states. Rightly then, Tripura, the largest bamboo producing state in the country has now announced the setting up of India’s first Bamboo Park.
Save Loktak Lake Campaign Organized in Chennai
After successfully organizing the ‘Worldwide Save Loktak Campaign’ in Pune, the North East Centre for Environmental Education (NECEER), Imphal organized the third phase of Save Loktak Lake Worldwide Campaign at Marina Beach in Chennai on 26th March, 2011.
NE Greens Invites Applications for Internship & Training Based in Delhi
NE Greens is a project of the ‘Green Media Programme’ of the Delhi Greens organization, launched as a unique portal for the North East India region, a first-of-its-kind green media initiative towards generating environmental awareness in the North East as Read More
Nagaland Becomes First NE State to Setup Department of New & Renewable Energy
India is no doubt taking significant steps towards combating impacts of climate change on the country. The years first parliament session witnessed an address by the Hon’ble President Pratibha Patil on the importance and commitment from the central Government on Read More
NECEER to Organise Worldwide Save Loktak Campaign in Pune
The North East Center for Environment Education & Research (NECEER) will be initiating the third phase of the ‘Save Loktak Lake Campaign’ in Pune tomorrow. With “Save Loktak Lake, Lifeline of Manipur” as its slogan, the campaign will be held Read More