Assam Home to Highest Non-Human Primate Species in India

Guwahati, May 13 : With the spotting of Eastern Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock leucondys) in three reserved forests of eastern Assam, the state has earned the distinction of having the highest diversity of non-human primate species in India. The additional species were spotted during a survey lead by NGO Aaranyak's primatologist Dr Dilip Chetry in three reserved forests of Sadiya sub-division in Tinsukia...

Supermodel Noemie Lenoire Attempts Suicide

French model Noemie Lenoir reportedly tried to take her own life on Sunday afternoon. The Gap and Victoria's Secret model was found unconscious in a forest in La Celle-Saint-Cloud outside Paris. According to the Daily Mail, the 30-year-old model is believed to have taken a potentially lethal cocktail of drugs and alcohol and drugs at the home of her on-again, off-again boyfriend, ex-Chelsea football...

MHA Efforts to Resolve Muivah-Manipur Conflict Fail

By Rahul Karmakar A woman activist from Naga Students Union Delhi (NSUD) holds a Naga flag as she participates in a rally demanding peace and justice, in New Delhi, India. Imphal, May 12 : The Centre's attempt to resolve the conflict between Okram Ibobi Singh's Manipur government and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) has come a cropper with both sides sticking...

Landslide, Blockade Cuts Off Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura

Shillong, May 12 : Road links to the northeastern states of Tripura, Mizoram and parts of Manipur and southern Assam remained cut off from the rest of India for the second day Wednesday following massive landslides at a major highway in Meghalaya. The National Highway No 44 at Sunapur and Tongseng in Jaintia Hills district in eastern Meghalaya, bordering Assam, has been blocked since Tuesday morning...

Naga Forum Receives Bodies of Naga Students

By Iboyaima Laithangbam Mourners gather to pay their respects at the funeral of two Naga students Chakho and Loshuo as it passes through Mao Gate, the town which straddles the border of the north-eastern Indian states of Nagaland and Manipur, some 32kms south of Kohima, following their deaths in clashes between Manipur policemen and protestors during the attempt of National Socialist Council of...

Choking a State’s Lifeline

By Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati, May 12 : One litre petrol for Rs 150; an LPG cylinder for Rs 1,200. This isn’t a newspaper headline, but the ground reality in Manipur, where bandhs and blockades have become the order of the day. Manipur is right now facing at least three blockades and bandhs — all directly affecting the National Highway 39, the lifeline of the landlocked state that...

Junta Mouthpiece Alleges NLD as Narrow-Minded

By Nava Thakuria While the international community and media continue condemning the military rulers of Burma for its farce electoral laws, the junta has put forward the argument that the National League for Democracy adopted narrow-minded practices. Junta’s mouthpiece The New Light of Myanmar has come out the headline news that ‘if NLD wants to amend the Constitution it should run for the...

2 Killed And Several Injured in Assam Storm

Guwahati, May 12 : Two persons were killed and several others injured in a severe storm which lashed several districts in lower Assam, officials said here today. Prafulla Das was killed while his wife along with their two children were seriously injured in Abhayapuri in Bongaigaon district. In another incident, Karimudding Sheikh was killed in Kokrajhar district during the storm which...