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In the past decade, Nagaland has seen a staggering loss of roughly 800 square kilometers of forest cover, as reported by the chairman of the State Biodiversity Board. He passionately called upon local communities, who possess the majority of land, to step up in safeguarding the state's vibrant biodiversity.

There are over 4,000 tuberculosis patients in Nagaland, and Mon district accounts for the highest number of cases.

A team of the 15th Finance Commission arrived here Tuesday on a three-day visit to hold talks with Nagaland government, officials said.

Nagaland's adult HIV positivity rate stands at 1.61%, the second highest in the country, as against the national average of 0.22%.

The Nagaland government has conceptualised a plan to provide hand-holding to the farmers and entrepreneurs of the state to come forward to produce more and sell their products under the brand name 'Naturally Nagaland'.

Nagaland health and family welfare minister P Paiwang Konyak said though Nagaland is the second oldest state in the northeast next to Assam, the state lacks infrastructure development, including healthcare facilities, because of the fragile law and order in the past.

The Nagaland government advised the farmers of the state to use the land judiciously and sustainably by adopting proper land-use planning to increase ecological and livelihood security.

The first Nagaland-bound Shramik Special train from Chennai with 1,477 stranded people has reached the Dimapur railway station here, an official said. The special train had left the southern metropolis on Tuesday night and arrived here on Friday evening, he said.

The Nagaland government has directed its in-service doctors, both availing as well as not availing non-practicing allowance (NPA), engaged in private practice in their hospitals or in partnership with any other hospital to either close down their private hospitals or to disassociate from such partnership within one month.