Tripura Police to Investigate Women Trafficking Case in Haryana

Agartala, Aug 17 : The Tripura government has decided to send a police team to Haryana for investigation into alleged selling of two girls from Kanchanpur area of North Tripura by the villagers. Police sources here today said two girls from poverty stricken families were sold to a ''marriage bureau'' in Haryana in April. One Prant Nath and his wife Bela Rani Nath, who had been doing business with...

14 Inmates Get Remission in Tripura

Agartala, Aug 17 : Tripura Governor DY Patil has given the approval for the remission of jail term of 14 inmates on the occasion of 64th Independence Day celebrations. The inmates were released last evening, officials said here today. According to report, eight inmates from Agartala Central Jail and three each from Belonia and Sonamura Sub-jails were released with the approval of the...

Meet Blair O’ Neal: The Sexy Queen of Golf

Blair O’ Neal is one of the hottest Golfers of recent times. “A cute blonde with an extreme fine finger” : thats what explains her. She is also a model and rockstar, who comes from the land of Stars and Stripes. That does’nt end here. She also rocks with club music and when it comes to Catwalk sporting, perhaps she’s the one taking away all the attention. In January 2004, Blair became the Captainof...

Assam Govt to Provide Scholarships to 2 lakh Minority Students

Guwahati, Aug 17 : The Assam government has announced that this financial year, they will soon be providing scholarships worth Rs. 2000 to around two lakh meritorious students from the state belonging to the tea-tribe communities, the scheduled tribes, the scheduled castes, other backward classes, other communities that reside in border areas, sand isles of the river Brahmaputra and other areas spanning...

Most Domestic Violence Cases in Mizoram go Unreported

Aizawl, Aug 16 : Sixty-year-old Thangbawihi, resident of Tuirial Airfield village, near here, was stabbed by her 63-year-old husband on the night of July eight during a heated argument and succumbed to her injuries a few days later at a hospital. The incident was termed by the police as an extreme case of domestic violence, but incidents of this nature, though on a lesser scale, have been frequently...

Total Bru Refugee Population Stands at 31,703

Aizawl, Aug 16 : The total number of Bru refugees, lodged at six relief camps in Tripura, stands at 31,703, according to a resurvey of their population conducted this month by the Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF). "The population of the ones who had left Mizoram in the wake of the murder of Lalzawmliana, a forest guard inside the Dampa Tiger Reserve in October 1997 by Bru National Liberation...

Mumbai Business to Back Northeast Opportunities

Mumbai, Aug 16 : Encouraged by recent steps to promote investment in India's northeast, representatives of industry and business in the country's financial capital here have agreed to boost the region's economy. Following a two-day workshop here on business opportunities in the northeast, the Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC), one of the country's oldest and most influential chambers of commerce, said...

Why Always Violence Trigger Massive Economic Packages From Govt

By Shantanu Nandan Sharma & Masood Hussain Former Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga was upset when insurgency-hit Northeast states were getting all the attention and money from New Delhi, leaving the peaceful pockets of the region imploring for the Centre’s largesse. The man, who himself fought an armed struggle before joining politics and eventually becoming the chief minister,...