25-Paisa Coins To Go The 10-Paisa Way, Just A Memory

New Delhi, Nov 4 : Inflation bug seems to have hit the Indian currency too. Worried over the growing cost of producing small value coins, the finance ministry has suggested reducing the size of coins so as to ensure that cost of production is brought below the face value of the currency. As part of the same strategy of cutting cost, the finance ministry has also proposed that the 25 paisa coin...

President, Not Mukesh, Lives in Costliest Home

New Delhi, Nov 4 : Mukesh Ambani’s vaastu-compliant building is 550-feet tall and has about 400,000 square feet of floor space, with residential and guest accommodation, maintenance levels, a ballroom (wall-to-wall crystal chandeliers), entertainment stages and theatres, gyms, six parking levels, a garden level, a swimming pool, and that Mumbai necessity, an ice room (complete with snow flurries)....

Mizoram Governor's Name Not on Voters List

Aizawl, Nov 4 : Mizoram Governor Lt. General M M Lakhera on Wednesday could not vote in the 19-ward Aizawl Municipal Council as his name was not on the voters list. When Lakhera did not find his name he returned to Raj Bhavan without casting his vote, officials said. There was 60 per cent turnout in the election which was held peacefully, the sources said. The voters sealed the fate...

Jatinga, Where Birds Commit Suicide

Haflong (Assam): The tranquility of Jatinga, a scenic village nestling among the Borail Hills range, is shattered every night by a disturbing occurrence - the 'mass suicide' of hundreds of birds. Locals have been witnessing the eerie phenomenon from September to November for the last couple of years. As the sun sets, hundreds of birds descend on the village and fly full speed towards buildings...

Naga Bodies Seek Release of Political Prisoners

Dimapur, Nov 4 : The apex Naga civil bodies have resolved to request the Government of India to release all political prisoners, irrespective of Naga political group, from the custody of different agencies so as to strengthen both the entities for further political negotiations. The decision was arrived at during a day-long closed door emergency consultative meeting of the Naga apex organisations...

Assam CM Meets Central Ministers Over Dams

By Kalyan Barooah New Delhi, Nov 4 : Sustained Opposition campaign over the big dam issue has led Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi to embark on a damage control exercise by pressing on the Government at the Centre to appoint a multi-disciplinary expert panel to ‘examine the entire ramification of the Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project. A perturbed Chief Minister is trying to mount pressure...

Assam Militants Still in Bangalore

By M G Chetan Bangalore, Nov 4 : Bangalore police were too happy to have arrested a number of alleged militants from the Northeast, but now it's proving to be more of a trouble for them. The police from the Northeastern states haven't arrive in the city yet to take the arrested militants into custody. A source in the police department said the terrorists in custody needed to be guarded round-the-clock....

27 Hospitalized For Food Poisoning in Meghalaya

Shillong, Nov 4 : At least 70 people fell ill, with 27 hospitalized, in a suspected case of food poisoning in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills district. The people, after eating food at a funeral gathering, started vomiting and developed indigestion symptoms yesterday. Twenty seven of them, including eight children, were admitted at a hospital in Jowai, official sources said. Government doctors have...