Sex + Drugs = Goa

Goa: Sex & Mafia on Cocaine Coast Yaniv Benaim aka Atala, the most colourful of Goa's Israeli drug dons, made headlines with a video on YouTube. His Swedish model-girlfriend named Lucky Farmhouse alias Amori posted the grainy, shaky video clip that became an instant Internet must-watch. An Israeli drug peddler revealed that policemen supplied him drugs stolen from a police godown. His arrest...

Mizoram Gets Green Award

Aizawl, Nov 11 : Mizoram has been awarded the coveted Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra (IPVM) Award 2010 in recognition of the states laudable contribution in the field of afforestation and wasteland development. The award given by the Environment and Forests, Ministry carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh, a citation and a scroll. State forests officials will receive the award during a ceremony...

NEZCC Organizes 'NE Octave Festival' From Nov 18

Kohima, Nov 11 : The North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) has organized the North East Octave Festival 2010 in three cities of the country for a fortnight from November 18 with the participation of over 400 artistes from all the eight North Eastern States. Official sources here today said that the 'Curtain Raiser' of the NE Octave Festival would be inaugurated by Director of NEZCC Anand Shukla...

IIM Shillong: We Want to Carve Our Own Identity

By Lajwanti Dsouza IIM Shillong campus Having begun operations only in July 2008, the institute has come a long way. Read how IIM Shillong attracted the best of the talent to its campus. If you want to take a picture postcard of Shillong, all you have to do is click a photograph of the IIM Shillong campus with its palatial building and regal drive-in. If you have a wide lens, you...

Anti-Mining Groups Vows Not to Allow Uranium Mining in Meghalaya

Shillong, Nov 11 : Anti-mining groups in Meghalaya today said that they would continue to oppose the proposed uranium mining in West Khasi Hills district, even as the Centre has made it clear that the project will go ahead once the Meghalaya government gives clearance. The groups reiterated their stand on the controversial mining issue after attending the awareness briefing presentation of the Department...

Hear This! Your Cell Number Can Harm You

A wrong mobile number combination is capable of spelling doom. If a numerologist of repute is to be believed, three successive owners of the number 888 888 888 died in mysterious accidents. Just as you hear out your astrologer before fixing dates for auspicious occasions such as wedding, housewarming et al, you might be better off by checking with your numerologist for your mobile number too. And...

India Following Soft Policy on Myanmar

New Delhi, Nov 11 : India has adopted a soft policy towards Myanmar because of its close proximity with the Northeastern States and security concerns, besides growing interest of China in the neighbouring country. A day after US President Barack Obama snubbed India over its ‘silence on Myanmar’, highly placed sources in the Ministry of External Affairs said that India and US have different concerns....

3 Generations in Assam, Now Suddenly Outsiders

By Samudra Gupta Kashyap It was around 5 pm. The sun had just set at Belsiri, a tiny halt on the Rangiya-Murkongselek metre gauge rail line in Sonitpur district in northern Assam. In the small daily bazaar held just behind the railway station, 100-odd people were gathered, some in the small barber shop run by Ramji Thakur, attached to his thatch-and-bamboo house. Out of nowhere, shots...