The Crisis Before Manipur

Centre for North East Studies, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia and India International Centre is organising a talk on “The Crisis Before Manipur” by , editor of the Imphal Free Press, one of the most articulate and fearless voices to emerge from the North-east. The talk will be held at the India International Centre, New Delhi from 6:30 pm on February 9, 2011. Renowned...

Saga Of Unheeded Island Within Land

Government Of India’s Indifferent Attitude Led Some Lands Landlocked In Bangladesh By SHIB SHANKAR CHATTERJEE Case Study Number – A : “….. Look, in the enclaves, forcible occupation is a common incident and it occurs off and on. So, it is difficult to keep either any landed property or the crops of the field under control. Especially in my case, I can say, I was a permanent inhabitant of...

Earthquake Shudders Northeast India

Shillong, Feb 5 : It was a shuddery Saturday morning for people from the North East as an earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude rocked Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Imphal. The epicenter of the quake is believed to be the Indo-Myanmar border and occurred at around 7.24 pm, the Central Seismological Observatory reported. The quake was felt by residents for close to 10 seconds and...

Running Rhinos To The Ground

By Saumyadipta Chatterjee & Naresh Mitra Kaziranga, Feb 5 : Imagine a six-month-old rhino calf desperately nudging his mother to wake her up from her sleep. Once, twice, thrice...the calf keeps at it, becoming tired in the process, but doesn't give up. Despite his repeated efforts, however, mama doesn't respond. What the baby doesn't realize is that mama will never wake up again. A gang of greedy...

UFO 'Filmed Hanging Over Jerusalem'

The Internet is buzzing over videos of a UFO flying above Jerusalem - but is it an elaborate hoax? Two different films have surfaced of a glowing ball hanging over the Dome of the Rock....

College Girl Asked To Pull Down Zipper!

By Vikas Kahol A storm is brewing in a dental college of Panjab University over the alleged harassment of an intern by the institute’s director-principal. G.K. Gauba, who heads the Dr HS Judge Institute of Dental Sciences, allegedly asked the girl to pull down the zipper of her pullover to show a slogan on the T-shirt she was wearing underneath. Though the girl resisted, he forced her to do his...

Arunachal Pradesh an Integral Part of India: PM

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that Arunachal Pradesh has always been an integral part of India and will remain so and the Chinese map showing the northeastern state as its part will not change the reality. This "simple fact" was conveyed by the Prime Minister to a delegation of All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union which met him here yesterday, AAPSU president Takam Tatung...

Mizoram to Push Back 28 Bru Families

Aizawl, Feb 4 : The Mizoram government will send back 28 Bru families, who returned to the state of their own will and effort during January, to neighbouring Tripura as they are not enrolled in Mizoram voters' lists, according to officials. Of the 221 Bru families that returned to the state from relief camps in North Tripura district's Kanchanpur sub-division, 28 could not prove that they were bona...