Mizoram Wants To Cash in on Cricket

Aizawl, Apr 17 : Cricket achieved a major milestone in Mizoram as Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today laid the foundation stone of Suaka Memorial Cricket Stadium, the first-of-its-kind in the state. The chief minister, also the new president of Cricket Association of Mizoram, lauded the efforts of the association in promoting cricket in Mizoram. ''Thanks to the association for the initiatives it...

Kim Kardashian NUDE & Unretouched: Naked In Harper's Bazaar

Kim Kardashian takes all her clothes off in a Photoshop-free shoot for the May issue of Harper's Bazaar. She is not the first this week to get naked or forgo airbrushing. Here are some excerpts from the interview. On her butt: "I don't get why everyone is always going on about my butt," Kim tells the magazine. "I'm Armenian. It's normal. My butt is probably not as big as you might think, because...

Crying Out to Humanity! India's Flagrant Human Rights Violation

Human Rights violation is a growing concern in our society. While Maoists (or Naxalites) remain the worst human rights violators in the country the state is not far behind. The number of custodial deaths is on the rise. By Nava Thakuria The Asian Centre for Human Rights, a New Delhi based rights group in its report titled 'Torture in India 2010' released on April 13, argues that impunity is...

Indian Security Forces Want Indo-Burmese Border Fenced Immediately

By Sujit Chakraborty Imphal, Apr 17 : Security forces, deployed along the 1,463 km long Indo-Myanmar international border, want a time-bound execution of the ongoing border fencing. A senior officer pointed out that at present the fencing work, in progress between pillar 79 and pillar 81, is really slow. "This is a very slow pace of work. There is an urgent need to seal this stretch of...

An Assessment of Insurgencies in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland in 2009

By Dr Namrata Goswami The Northeast of India has been plagued by insurgencies since independence in 1947. Most violent amongst the armed movements had been the Naga National Council in the 1950s and today the NSCN (IM). States like Assam and Manipur also witnessed armed organized violence since the 1960s and the 1970s. At present, while violence levels have come down in Assam and Nagaland,...

New Delhi Wants Yangon to Act Tough Against Northeast Militants

Imphal, Apr 17 : Myanmar Ambassador to India U Kyi Thian said the Myanmar juntas has been launching offensive against the insurgents of northeast India, operating from their soil against India. He said at least 15 northeast insurgent camps are operating from Myanmar soil. These insurgents are fighting either for an autonomy or independent homeland in Manipur, Nagaland and Assam. India...

Jessica Simpson For Marie Claire

Jessica Simpson is busting out her ginormous cleavage in Marie Claire Magazine May 2010 edition. ...

BSF, Police Bust Fake Currency Racket in Barak Valley

Silchar, Apr 16 : In a special joint-operation, BSF and Assam Police recovered fake currency notes worth Rs 2,35,510 and fake currency printing equipment in Cachar and Karimganj districts of Assam over the past couple of days. An official of BSF Mizoram and Cachar Frontier today said on a specific tip-off from BSF Intelligence wing, the police first raided village Nagatilla locality near Silchar...