-The Telegraph New Delhi: A network of 293 ground motion sensors located across northern, eastern and northeastern India lay crippled during Nepal's 7.9 magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks, handicapping researchers trying to assess how the quakes affected cities and towns in these regions. No one knows how many of the 293 sensors designed to measure ground acceleration during earthquakes were actually recording data during the weekend earthquakes because funding for maintenance of...
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After Nepal quake, India may be next: Experts -Trina Joshi
-IANS In the wake of the strong 7.9 magnitude earthquake that killed over a 1,500 people in Nepal and left a swathe of devastation in the northern Himalayas on Saturday, experts said a temblor of equal intensity is "overdue in northern India." "An earthquake of the same magnitude is overdue. That may happen either today or 50 years from now... in the region of the Kashmir, Himachal, Punjab and Uttrakhand Himalyas. Seismic...
More »Centre to screen kids for anaemia
-The Telegraph Tribal ministry to cover 6 lakh children of indigenous communities in Assam Guwahati: The Union tribal affairs ministry, with the help of the health department, is planning to cover at least six lakh tribal children in Assam, including those of tea garden workers, under its sickle-cell anaemia screening programme this year. Sickle-cell anaemia is a blood disorder characterised by an abnormality in haemoglobin that carries oxygen from the lungs to...
More »Rs 37000 crore for NE states -Andrew W Lyngdoh
-The Telegraph Shillong: The Centre has released more than Rs 37,000 crore to all the states as the first instalment of devolution according to the 14th Finance Commission recommendations. From among the northeastern states, in the first instalment released for the financial year 2015-16, Assam will receive Rs 1,242.76 crore, Arunachal Pradesh Rs 516.48 crore, Manipur Rs 231.27 crore, Meghalaya Rs 240.75, Mizoram Rs 172.40 crore, Nagaland Rs 186.68 crore, Tripura Rs...
More »1 in 5 primary teachers unqualified -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A fifth of all elementary school teachers in the country do not have the requisite qualifications to teach young children. If this doesn't shock you, take a look at what's going on at the state level. In a wide swathe starting from all eight states of the North-East (including Sikkim), through West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and up north in J&K, the share of...
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