February 02, 2026 06:27 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
After Budget mayhem, bulls return: Sensex, Nifty stage sharp recovery | Dalai Lama wins first Grammy at 90 | Firing outside Rohit Shetty’s Mumbai home: 4 arrested, Bishnoi Gang link emerges | Female suicide attackers emerge at centre of deadly BLA assaults that rocked Pakistan’s Balochistan | Delhi blast: Probe reveals doctors' module planned attacks on global coffee chain | Begging bowl: Pakistan PM says he feels “ashamed” seeking loans abroad | Epstein Files shocker! Zohran Mamdani’s mother Mira Nair mentioned in latest tranche | Bill Gates contracted STD after sex with Russian women? Epstein Files make explosive, unverified claims | Big setback for Modi govt: Supreme Court stays controversial UGC Equity Regulations 2026 amid student protests | ‘Mother of all deals’: PM Modi says India–EU FTA is for 'ambitious India'

Harsh Vardhan inaugurates a Vigyan Sadan at Hengbung

| | Feb 17, 2015, at 11:59 pm
Hengbung, Feb 17 (IBNS) Union Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences & Vice President of CSIR, Harsh Vardhan has said that the central government is committed to ensure the development of the North eastern states and to make Manipur one of the most prosperous and scientifically developed states.

He was inaugurating a four-storey Vigyan Sadan in the Foundation for Environment and Economic Development Services (FEEDS) Campus at Hengbung in Sadar Hills, Senapati district of the state last evening.

The Minister earlier went around and saw the facilities in the Laboratory, the Hardening Chamber and the field Gene Bank and conveyed his deep appreciation to the Orchid Research and Development Centre, on this campus.

Harsh Vardhan noted the FEEDS campus at Hengbung has developed into a world class research centre even while being located at a tribal and remotest part of the country.

Vardhan also committed to setting up of Bio-Tech Park in Manipur and he discussed this issue with Chief Minister Shri Okram Ibobi Singh, whom he later met in the evening.
 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.