Mizo Police The Best in India

Aizawl, Mar 29 : The Mizoram police department is one of the best in India and because of this the state police personnel have been deployed even outside the state, said Mizoram sports minister Zodintluanga while inaugurating Mizoram Police Sports Meet  at Mualpui in Aizawl.“Because of their perseverance and devoting nature for the state, the people of Mizoram are safe and living without fear...

UN Rapporteur To Submit Northeast Human Rights Report

Guwahati, Mar 29 : The United Nations will soon send recommendations to the Central government on the issues of human rights violations in the northeast. Visiting the region for the first time, Chirstof Heyns, UN special Rapporteur has received cases of alleged rights violation in NE states.Heyns said he will would address the grievances of the victims of human rights abuse and submit a report to...

Mizoram Forms Panel For Border Disputes With Assam, Tripura

Aizawl, Mar 28 : The Mizoram government has formed a five-member committee to resolve the boundary disputes with neighbouring Assam and Tripura, an official said Tuesday."The boundary committee headed by former minister C. Chawngkunga would study the long-running inter-state border line row and would make recommendations to the state government at the earliest," a senior land revenue and settlement...

Myanmarese Police Officials Learn English in Mizoram

Aizawl, Mar 28 : Twenty-eight Myanmarese police officials are undergoing one-month crash course in English at Champhai town on the Mizoram-Myanmar border, as part of an agreement between India and the neighboring country. The police officials, led by Inspector P I Thein Zau were all graduates and second lieutenants, an official statement said. The course began yesterday. They are...

FireHouse To Rock Northeast India

FireHouse returns as part of Rock to Rescue tour, with venues in Manipur and Nagaland By Alipta Jena Calcutta, Mar 28 : In 2004, an American band set the house on fire in Shillong. Eight years later, FireHouse is returning to rock the region on April 7 and 10 with timeless numbers like Hold your Fire and When I look into your eyes, during the Rock to Rescue tour of Nagaland and Manipur....

Assam Police Worst Human Rights Violators

By Prabin KalitaGuwahati, Mar 27 : Assam Police are the biggest violators of human rights in the state. According to a written reply by forest and environment minister Rockybul Hussain on behalf of home minister and chief minister Tarun Gogoi in the house on Monday, of the 94 cases in which the state human rights commission has issued orders, 46 are against the Assam Police.The minister stated in...

Forum Vows To Counter Tipaimukh

Push for micro projectsSilchar, Mar 27 : The North East Dialogue Forum, a joint forum of more than 50 civil society organisations in the Northeast, along with the Community for People and Environment said it would not yield an inch in its fight against the government’s decision to build Tipaimukh dam.Addressing reporters here today, the forum’s convener, U. Nobokishore, said the Centre and the Manipur...

6 Abducted By Militants in Mizoram

Aizawl, Mar 27 : At least six people, including residents of Assam, Punjab, and Rajasthan, were abducted by unidentified tribal guerrillas in a Mizoram district bordering Bangladesh Monday, police said here. "Heavily armed unidentified militants raided a workshed at Bunghmum under Lunglei district early Monday and abducted six people," a police spokesman told reporters here. The captives...

Dry Law Fails To Make Mizoram Dry

Aizawl, Mar 26 : The total prohibition on liquor, imposed in Mizoram since 1997, has failed to make the Christian-dominated state a dry land, a study has recently revealed. The study group constituted by the state in its report submitted to the government a few days back found that the Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition Act 1997 is a failure because of unceasing demand."The prohibition has only increased...

Manipur MLAs To Watch Porn To Grab Attention (False News)

Rahul Roushan Some MLAs in Manipur, cutting across party lines, are planning to watch porn in the assembly to get the attention of Indian public and the media, especially the television news channels. These MLAs have already contacted local correspondents of such TV channels and asked them to record their porn-viewing adventure and turn it into breaking news. “We finally hope that the people will...

First Train Chugs Into Manipur's Interiors

Silchar, Mar 26 : Sixty four years after India's Independence, many villagers in Manipur saw a locomotive for the first time on Friday as it traversed 12km from Jiribam to Dholakhal station.The small patch is a part of the 84-km Jiribam-Tupul broad gauge project, the foundation of which was laid by the PM in 2004. So far, Manipur had only 1.5km rail tracks up to Jiribam station near the Assam border.Villagers...

Solar Lanterns Bring Light For Manipur Villages

Chandel, Mar 26 : Hundreds of people thronged a daylong camp set up by the Assam Rifles at their headquarters in Manipur's Chandel District, where the paramilitary force distributed 200 solar lanterns to 27 villages which face an erratic supply of electricity."We already decided to distribute solar lanterns in the villages of hill areas in the beginning of this financial year. We procured it through...

Google Charts A Careful Course Through Asia's Maps

Launch of Street View in Thailand met with enthusiasm, in contrast to obstacles elsewhere Cameras that capture 360-degree views to collect panoramic images are seen along Negro River in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon Basin August 17, 2011. Google rushed out its panoramic Street View maps in Thailand on Friday as part of the country's efforts to show tourist...

RBI To Compensate Banks For Loss in Northeast Service

Shillong, Mar 26 : Having prioritised to provide banking service to the people of North-East, Reserve Bank of India had decided to compensate commercial banks for revenue loss in the process, RBI officials said on Friday. "RBI will compensate 100 percent revenue loss to banks for five years as an incentive to push banking inclusion in the region," Deputy General Manger RBI, T Jamang told...

Mizoram Teachers Want To Stop Cooking Meals

Aizawl, Mar 23 : The government teachers in Mizoram have demanded an immediate end to their involvement in the implementation of the centrally-sponsored mid-day meal scheme. Members of Federation of Mizoram Government School Teachers (FMGST), who started the procession from Vanapa Hall to the New Secretariat Complex, made a five-point demand to the state government.The pre-matric scholarship and...

Manipur Working On India’s First Bamboo Cycles

By Sobhapati SamomImphal, Mar 23 : Moves are afoot in Manipur to give a green twist to the ubiquitous bicycles by rolling out bamboo cycles for the first time in the country. Bamboo forms the main frame of such cycles instead of aluminum or steel. “The success of such projects in African countries and other developing countries has inspired us to replicate such models in India and boost conservation...

Assam Airports Set For Major Facelift

Guwahati: Airports in Assam, including the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) airport, are set for a major facelift with the government mooting measures to turn the state into an aviation hub of the entire North Eastern region. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has taken up the matter with the Airport Authority of India (AAI) to explore ways to improve the airports which will further encourage...

Manipur Tops Terror Chart

Guwahati, Mar 23 : Manipur is now the worst militancy-affected state in the country, overtaking Jammu and Kashmir and other northeastern states, while Mizoram and Tripura are among the most peaceful. In a reply to a question in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, minister of state of home affairs Jitendra Singh said a total of 246 militancy-related incidents have occurred in Manipur in the first three months...

Finally, iPad 3 For India

Although iPad 3 is not release in India. Some enterprising teens have made sure that India is not left out from the iPad release worldwide. Be sure to get ready for the influx of new iPad 3 in India. Keep your wallets close and your iPad 3 closer.  Black market gangs join the iPad stampede to ship tablets to India (as enterprising teen, 16, jumps back 14 spots for £300) 'Agents' earned £20...

Zoramthanga Praises Tripura's Success

Agartala, Mar 16 : Mizo National Front (MNF) president and former chief minister Zoramthanga Thursday said the Congress government in Mizoram has "totally failed to serve the people" and praised the Left-ruled Tripura's success stories.He told reporters the MNF would project Tripura's government's success stories to vote out the Congress government in Mizoram in next year's assembly polls."We would...

Pakistan ISI Admits Supporting Insurgency in India's Northeast

By Dipanjan Roy Former ISI chief Asad Durrani made the admission during a Pakistan Supreme Court hearing. Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has admitted to meddling in India's Northeast and funding the right-wing Bangladesh National Party (BNP) during the 1991 general elections in that country. The admission came from no less than former ISI chief Asad Durrani during a Pakistan...

Is Shared Sovereignty the Future of Nagaland?

Globalisation and inter-dependence have pushed Naga rebels to reassess their goals. Is peace within reach, asks Avalok Langer Blowin’ in the wind Rebel leaders with the flag of Nagaland Photo: Benjamin Sugathan FOR 64 YEARS, the Naga struggle for sovereignty has been based on the idea of ‘urra uvie (our land belongs to us)’. Over the years, a sense of a collective Naga identity has been instilled...

What Threatens Peace in India’s Northeast?

By Samrat EpaA boatman on Brahmaputra River, 43 miles from Guwahati, Assam, in this June 27, 2008 file photo. The last in a three-part series on peace quietly breaking out in India’s Northeast. For India’s Northeast to have a bright future, the region will need to avoid a few minefields. Most importantly, “a sustainable peace, including in the Kachin state (in Myanmar), is essential for all this...

Tripura Withdraws Imposing Mizo Language on Halam People

Agartala, Mar 15 : The Tripura state government has decided to withdraw the imposition of Mizo language on Halam communities following a protest from the latter saying that the Mizo language was forcibly imposed upon them since 2009 despite no plausible connection between Halam-Kuki linguistic group and the Mizos.A delegation of the Halam-Kuki linguistic tribal stream spread across a wide stretch...

In India’s Northeast, Youth Crave Global Links, Development

By SAMRAT Amit Bhargava for The New York TimesSchool students at a sit-in protest against the economic blocade imposed by Naga rebels, near Imphal, Manipur in this Aug. 3, 2005 file photo. In the second of a three-part series, a journalist from the Northeast examines the peace that is quietly breaking out across the once strife-torn region. Northeast India is part of one of the world’s last...