Pepper Spray Campaign To The Rescue Of Women

New Delhi, Dec 29 : Amid increasing crime against women in the capital, a civil society group is all set to launch a cheap pepper spray to ensure safety of women under a campaign called 'mirchi jhonk'. Led by a doctor, Seema Malik, the campaign aims to form a human chain across the capital to ensure that immediate help is rushed to the victims by volunteers and members of that area. "Over the last...

Indian Media Ignoring Scribes Facing Hurdles

New Delhi, Dec 29 : The media in India has gone far in pursuit of commercialization, ignoring the hurdles faced by journalists in the North-east and Jammu and Kashmir, amidst insurgencies and allegation of human right abuses. At least 19 journalists and one media worker have been killed this year in the region, according to a Review of South Asia. The report released at a meeting of the South Asia...

Indian Baptist Educator Breaks Stained-Glass Ceiling

By Robert Marus AIZAWL, India (ABP) -- A Baptist leader and educator is poised to break barriers as the first woman ordained as a pastor by a Christian denomination in her northeast Indian state. The Telegraph of Calcutta reported that leaders in the Baptist Church of Mizoram will ordain 65-year-old R.L. Hnuni as a pastor next month. Hnuni is principal of the regional convention’s Bible school,...

Assam School Textbook Goes Red With Errors

A page from the computer textbook marked with mistakes. Telegraph picture Guwahati, Dec 29 : How many spelling mistakes can you expect in a school textbook supposedly prepared by a body of experts and released to the students after several rounds of revision? If you go through a computer textbook, provided under the Rajiv Gandhi Computer Literacy Programme and being read by thousands of students...

My Dream is to Win Davis Cup For India, Says Somdev

Agartala, Dec 28 : Somdev Devvarman grabbed eyeballs in the tennis arena by winning a Singles gold at Delhi Games and... India's No 1 Somdev Devvarman on Monday said his dream is to lead India to a Davis Cup title win. "India have entered in the World Group of tennis. My dream is to bring the Davis Cup title for my country," Somdev said during a felicitation organised by the Tripura government,...

Bru Groups to Begin Talks

Guwahati, Dec 28 : Talks between pro and anti-repatriation factions of the Brus, displaced from Mizoram, will start at Kanchanpur in Tripura on Wednesday. The outcome of the talks will decide the fate of the stalled repatriation process of the displaced community. The director of the Asian Centre for Human Rights, Suhas Chakma, will be on a three-day tour to Kanchanpur starting tomorrow for the...

2010 Not a Memorable Year For Mizoram

By H C Vanlalruata Aizawl, Dec 28 : Mizoram was plagued by drought, jhum fires, landslides and flash floods during the year with scarcity of food and blockades adding to the woes of the people in the northeastern state. The year began on a sad note as nine people were killed in jhum fires ignited by hunters that also caused massive damage to the wildlife. Smoke from the fires often...

When Nature Yelled in 2010

2010 was yet another unusual year when weather played havoc around the globe. From the present chill that is sweeping across most parts of Europe to one of the worst floods to hit Pakistan, the weather ran amok in 2010. Scientists have blamed the unusual weather patterns to global warming and the shift in sea temperatures.A new study says that the shifting weather patterns are due to the receding...