Former Congress MP Accused of Rape, Absconding

New Delhi, Aug 27 : Former Assam Congress MP Moni Kumar Subba, who is accused in a rape case, has been absconding after the Guwahati High Court rejected his bail petition twice. A team of Assam Police officials are in Delhi to trace Subba. A combined team of Assam Police and Delhi Police raided Subba’s farmhouse in Chhattarpur in South Delhi on Wednesday and Thursday to locate him. Subba was accused...

Fear Grips Non-Manipuris

Migrant workers at the Imphal relief camp. Imphal, Aug 27 : Manoj Shaha, a 26-year-old hawker from Bihar, has been sitting in one corner of a medium-size room at Dharmasala since his arrival at the lodge here this morning. He has been in the city for the last 14 years, ever since his father came here in search of a job. The killings of the migrants that resumed a few days back, however, has made...

Manmohan Singh Expresses Concern Over Naga-Meitei ‘Divide’ in Northeast

New Delhi, Aug 26 : Prime Minster Dr. Manmohan Singh on Thursday said that the situation in the Northeast is better today than it was in the recent past, but some areas of concern still remain, like the Naga-Meitei divide in Manipur. Addressing the second-day session of the 45th conference of Director Generals Of Police and other senior security officials here, Dr. Singh said: “In Manipur, for example,...

Cloudburst in Leh May be Due to Climate Change

New Delhi, Aug 26 : Based on a detailed analysis of weather data from the last five years in Leh, Ladakh, scientists have attributed the recent cloudburst in the region to prolonged winters which may be due to climate change. "After going through the sequence of events of the weather that led to the cloudburst on August 6, it has been reinforced that the catastrophe was due to prolonged winters...

Mizoram Sanctioned 8 Air-Monitoring Stations

Aizawl, Aug 26 : Mizoram has received a sanction for air quality monitoring stations under the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP), Mizoram Pollution Control Board (MPCB) said today. One station each at Aizawl and Lengpui and two stations each at Lunglei, Kolasib and Champhai will be set up before the jhum burning season between February and March next year, the MPCB said. ...

Mizoram Records 561 Eye Donors

Aizawl, Aug 26 : Mizoram has registered 561 eye donors since the inception of the first eye bank in North East at Aizawl Civil Hospital in September last year. As many as 17 people have been gifted with vision following successful corneal transplant at the hospital. Inaugurating the 25th national eye donation fortnight at Chanmari YMA Hall here, health minister Lalrinliana Sailo said the...

Mizoram’s Decision – Garage First, Car Later: Debate

By Rudroneel Ghosh The Mizoram transport department's move to deny registration of any automobile that is bought without proof of parking space needs to be replicated all over the country. In an upwardly mobile society like ours, owning a car is not just a matter of convenience. It is representative of our status. It supposedly defines where we are on the social pecking order. It is this...

84,000 Plus Voters Missing in 2010 Assam Voter’s List

Guwahati, Aug 26 : The recently-published draft voters list for 2010 by Assam State Election Commission showed more than 84 thousand voters have declined in comparison to the previous list . The report comed amid allegations by Assam-based organizations, namely, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), All Assam Students Union (AASU), and Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP), that illegal Bangladeshi...