Joint Committee Suggested to Fight Manipur Child Trafficking

Imphal, Apr 10 : To stop frequent child trafficking in Manipur, an NGO working on child and women rights in the Northeast has suggested setting up of a 'joint committee' of government officials and NGOs. ''It is becoming increasingly difficult to detect cases of child trafficking in the districts of Manipur,'' a spokesperson for the Shillong-based Impulse NGO Network (INN), Hashina Kharbinh,...

How to Improve Yourself With 42 Practical Tips

Are you someone who likes to grow? Do you constantly seek to improve yourself and become better? If you do, then we have something in common. I’m very passionate about personal growth. It was just 4 years ago when I discovered my passion for growing and helping others grow. At that time, I was 22 and in my final year of university. As I thought about the meaning of life, I realized there was nothing...

IPF Strongly Condemns The Coward Reaction, Response of Assam Police

A Press Release The Indigenous Peoples Forum (IPF) of Assam’s NC Hills, in the quest for a political solution to the ongoing flux in the hill district, organized a peaceful bandh today (April, 2010) to assert our democratic and citizenship rights. However, we are sorry to...

12 Student Protestors Injured in Police Firing in Haflong, Assam

Haflong, Apr 10 : More than 12 protestors comprising mainly of Tribal ethnic students of North Cachar Hills Assam, including 2 girls, were injured when police fired on demonstrators at Haflong, headquarter of Assam's North Cachar hill district, Friday. The demonstrators, under the banner of NC Hills Indigenous Students' Forum, were demonstrating at the bus stand demanding bifurcation of the...

The Branding And Business Smarts of Victoria’s Secret Models

The Second Life Of Victoria's Secret Models By Kiri Blakeley Everybody knows their faces, their bodies, their names. A notable few have gone on to media or entrepreneurial careers with astonishing success. If there are institutions that consistently produce winners--say, Harvard among universities or Goldman Sachs for investment banking--Victoria's Secret would be that institution for the...

Lessons From The Dantewada Debacle: Training, Not Threats

By Ajai Shukla New Delhi : It has been 44 years since that forgettable incident when New Delhi — for the first and only time — used its air force against its own citizens. With the Mizo National Front rampaging through Mizoram in 1966, the government warned that any Mizo who did not relocate to designated safe villages would be treated as a rebel. On the heels of that announcement came the Indian...

Assam Governor Helps Break Taboo Against Women

By Syed Zarir Hussain Barpeta (Assam), Apr 6 : Bhabani Pathak and Kamala Bharali are excited and yet haunted with a sense of guilt. They were among the few women who broke a more than 500-year-old tradition by entering the sanctum sanctorum of a revered Xatra or Hindu monastery in Assam. “I am overwhelmed as I was among the very few who stepped into the kirtan ghar (sanctum sanctorum) of...

Manipur Records Highest Rainfall So Far

Imphal, Apr 6 : The ongoing rainfall in the State is three times higher than that of last year, according to Meteorological (MET) Office sources. When compared with last year’s record, the ongoing rainfall rate is much higher. The State has recorded around 185.5 mm rainfall till April 2 this year against last year’s 51.1 mm. Kh Meghachandra Singh, officer in-charge of the MET office Imphal at Tulihal...