BACKGROUND Manipur and Nagaland in northeast India are among the Indian states with the highest prevalence of HIV. Most prevention and care programs focus on identified "high risk" groups, but recent data suggest the epidemic is increasing among the general population, primarily through heterosexual sex. People with disability (PWD) in India are more likely than the general population to be ill...

Five indigenous oak tree species, i.e., Castanopsis indica (Roxb. ex Lindl.) A.DC., Lithocarpus fenestratus (Roxb.) Rehder, Lithocarpus pachyphyllus (Kurz) Rehder, Lithocarpus polystachyus (Wall. ex A.DC.) Rehder and Quercus serrata Murray were estimated for their wood properties such as calorific value, density, moisture content and ash content from a sub-tropical forest of Haraothel hill, Sen...

There are six surviving manuscripts under the category of Subika namely Subika, Achouba, Laishaba, Choudit, Cheithil, and Thengrakhel Subika. For this paper manuscript “Subika Laishaba'' has been discussed. Illustration Laishaba is painting among earliest visual arts forms Manipur. Though advent paintings lately acquired from various individual collections, possesses an interesting area studyin...