Fake Nursing Institute in Manipur Dupes Students

Scores of students enrolled in a nursing academy in Manipur's Porampat town were duped after the institute turned out to be a fake one. The matter came to light when the authorities of the S. Kumar Nursing Institute failed to issue original admission cards to its students, with examinations just a few days away. Activists of the Democratic Students' Alliance Manipur (DESAM) threatened a complete...

Security Vigil as Mizoram Readies For Christmas

Aizawl, Dec 22 : Security is beefed up in Mizoram including the border areas in view of the Christmas and New Year celebrations. According to police sources, elaborate patrol parties of security forces have been arranged to cover all the vulnerable border villages. They are also to collect relevant information about the movement of anti-social elements looming large in the border areas. ...

Christmas Gift For Obama From Shillong Choir

Shillong, Dec 22 : This Christmas, Barack Obama will receive a gift all the way from Meghalaya - a repertoire of 'Christmas Everyday', a music album of the Shillong Chamber Choir that performed for the US president when he came to India. 'We are in touch with the US embassy and will definitely send President Obama an album of our Christmas carols,' Damon Lyndem, spokesperson of the choir, told IANS....

Media Promotes Sex Among Mizo Teens: Research

Aizawl, Dec 20 : People all over the world use the media everyday, whether it's using a computer, watching TV, reading a newspaper, talking on the phone or listening to the radio, the mass media today is part of everyday life. However, as with new opportunities come new problems, the impact of media has its negative sides which can be especially harmful to the teens. A research recently conducted...

No Indian Militant Camps in Bhutan, Says Thinley

Guwahati, Dec 20 : Bhutan Prime Minister Jigme Y. Thinley Monday said there were no Indian separatist bases in his country and pledged not to allow rebels to enter the country for shelter. 'There are no Indian militant camps or bases in my country and we shall ensure that no militants are able to enter Bhutan,' the prime minister told journalists in Guwahati. Bhutan had for more than a decade...

Constitutional Safeguards Sought For Hmar Tribe

Silchar, Dec 20 : Hmar Students’ Association (HSA) Barak Valley in a series of memoranda to the Centre and the Government of Assam since 1988 has been seeking constitutional safeguards for Hmar tribe living outside the two autonomous districts of NC Hills and Karbi Anglong in the three plain districts of Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi on the scheduled tribe list. A delegation of the Association...

Mizo Students Body on Racial Discrimination, Sexual Assault

Aizawl, Dec 20 : Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), Mizoram’s most influential students' body has urged Mizo MP-duo C L Ruala and Lalhmingliana to voice the issue of sexual abuses like rape, molestation and racism in the Parliament, faced by many students and employees from the north eastern states in New Delhi. The Mizo students' body at the same time also asked Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla...

All Northeast Capitals to Get Railway, Air Network

New Delhi, Dec 19 : With lack of connectivity posing as a major hindrance in the economic growth of the northeast, the Centre has decided to bring all the state capitals in the region under railway and air network. Officials in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) said Railways has undertaken an ambitious project to link all capital cities at an estimated investment of Rs...