Mizoram District Councils Demand Direct Funding

Aizawl, Feb 8 : The three autonomous district councils in Mizoram have decided to intensify its decade-long demand for direct funding from the Centre. A joint meeting of Mara, Chakma and Lai autonomous district councils, chaired by Lai ADC Planning Development Vice-chairman Hmunhre at Lawngtlai, has recently decided to send an envoy to the state government and the Centre to make sure that their demands...

'We Won't Allow This on Campus'

JNU authorities see red after media reports student's blue film being sold A day after media reported that two former students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) had shot a blue film inside a hostel,  the university authorities have initiated an inquiry into the matter. "We will not tolerate such things inside the university complex. We already have initiated inquiry and have questioned...

Over 400 Killed in Nearly 700 Blasts in Assam

Guwahati, Feb 8 : Over 400 people have been killed in Assam in around 700 incidents of bomb blast since April 2001. As many as 698 bomb blast incidents were reported in the state between April 1, 2001, and January 10, 2011, state Cabinet minister Rockybul Hussain said in reply to a written question in the state Assembly today. He was replying on behalf of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who also...

Manipuri Girls Caught With Yemenis in Bangalore

Mysore, Feb 8 : Abdul Mallik, 29, and his friend Mohammed Ali, 23, both from Yemen, thought they were on to a good thing when they picked up two beauticians Sctey, Remey Thang, both from Manipur, in Kammanahalli in Bangalore and kicked off their liquor-sodden drive to Mysore. But their party ended when sub-inspector — of the Srirangapatna police station alerted his counterparts in Mysore who...

Sinned? There's an iPhone App For You

New York: An iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics through confession and encouraging lapsed followers back to the faith has been sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the United States. Confession: A Roman Catholic app, thought to be the first to be approved by a church authority, walks Catholics through the sacrament and contains what the company behind the program describes as a "personalized examination...

MMS Scandal Hits JNU: 2 Students Being Probed

New Delhi: Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University is in a state of shock after a CD with lewd images of one of its female students is doing the rounds. The CD was allegedly shot by some students from the School of Language Studies. The students initially tried to extort money from the girl in the video but when they failed the culprits put the video out on mobile phones, on the internet...

AIDS Threatens 2000 Kids in Manipur

Women hide HIV status during pregnancy leading to high number of infected children Disease danger Imphal, Feb 8 : More than 2,000 children are infected by HIV in Manipur and the number is expected to grow. The shocking figures were revealed today by the project director of Manipur AIDS Control Society, Pradeep Kumar Jha, during the inaugural programme of a two-day workshop funded by Unicef....

Hoping to Break Into Top-50 by The End of 2011: Somdev

New Delhi: Indian tennis' poster boy Somdev Devvarman said he is hoping to break into top-50 by the end of this year but stopped short of predicting when he would win his first singles title, which he missed last night for the second time in his career. Somdev lost his second ATP final yesterday in the South African Open -- the first being in 2009 Chennai Open – but said the performance in...