Repatriation of Bru Refugees To Resume from May

Aizawl, May 2 : Mizoram government's Core Committee on Bru refugee repatriation today tentatively set May last week as the date for their resumption, who are lodged in the relief camps in neighbouring North Tripura district.The decision was taken at a Core Committee meeting held under the chairmanship of Parliamentary Secretary for Home Lalrinmawia Ralte.Ralte told PTI that the detailed programme...

Traffickers Arrested For Selling Indian Girls As Brides

By Nita Bhalla A girl looks on outside her mud hut in northeast India, on July 2, 2005. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan NEW...

Meghalaya Varsity Gives 434 Ph.D. Degrees in One Year, Faces Probe

Advt says a dental clinic in Panchkula can be contacted for a Ph.D. from CMJ University A private university in Meghalaya has created a record of sorts: it has awarded Ph.D. degrees to as many as 434 candidates in 2012-13 academic year, even as only 10 of its faculty members have doctorates. In fact, according to an advertisement put out by the CMJ University, Meghalaya's first private state...

Mob Torches Houses in Mizoram Village

Aizawl, Apr 30 : A mob from Mizoram border Vaphai village in Champhai district today burned down all the 40 houses in Saikhumphai hamlet.Around five people were injured in a clash with the police who were deployed in the hamlet to enforce a High Court order.Though a number of police personnel including three platoons of armed policemen were deployed, the police could not stop the mob from torching...

Nagaland, Mizoram & Tripura are Highest Tobacco Consuming States

Shillong, Apr 30 : Following the direction of the union government, Tripura and Meghalaya will ban the sale, manufacture and distribution of gutka (tobacco-laced areca nut pieces) and pan masala (a chewing mixture), officials said on Tuesday.Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Sikkim have already banned such products.The Supreme Court earlier this month directed 23 states and...

10 Manipur Cops Arrested For Drug Trafficking

Imphal, Apr 30 : Ten Manipur Police personnel, including two officers, have been caught red handed while transporting drugs to the Manipur-Myanmar border town of Moreh.They were arrested on Sunday evening with the psychotropic drug, pseudoephedrine, worth approximately Rs 3.6 crore. The accused were produced before the court of the Thoubal district magistrate on Monday morning and remanded in police...

More airports developed in Northeast

By Krupa Vora The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) is developing more airports in Northeast India. India to enhance connectivity to Northeast The ministry has informed the Rajya Sabha that in order to connect the remote hills areas of the region, the Airport Authorities of India (AAI) is developing non-operational airports at Daparizo in Arunachal Pradesh, Tura in Meghalaya and Kamalpur in...

28 New ITIs To Come Up in Northeast

New Delhi, Apr 30 : Seven northeastern states, including Assam, have proposed setting up 28 new Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in the region, parliament was informed Monday.The northeast now has 71 ITIs, affiliated to the National Council of Vocational Training, Minister of State for Labour and Employment K. Suresh said in a statement in the Lok Sabha.He added that no unemployment benefit...