Welcome to Delhi, The New Drug Trafficking Hub

By Suhas Munshi Drug addicts wait for traetment at National Drug Dependence Treatment The National Capital is witnessing a boom in drug trafficking. A Mail Today investigation has found out that foreign drug cartels are smuggling in thousands of kilograms of narcotics through Delhi's porous borders even as the anti-narcotics forces grope in the dark for leads. On...

US Film 'Explores The Power' of Baseball in Manipur

By Arun KumarWashington, May 6 : It was amazing enough that in cricket-crazy India, America's national pastime baseball has found a foothold in the northeastern state of Manipur.And now two American women, one a critically acclaimed director and the other an Academy-Award winning actress, have come together to make a movie that they say "explores the power" of the game for "people in a troubled,...

Nagaland Governor Releases Book on Northeast Cuisine

Dimapur, May 6 : The variations in cuisine from region to region in India is quite staggering. In a major boost to exploration of the food culture of different tribes and communities of northeast, Nagaland Governor Dr. Ashwani Kumar recently released a book titled 'Food Trail- discovering food culture of NE India.'A first-of-its-kind anthology, the book written by Aiyushman Dutta, offers a peek...

Did Mizoram Govt Allow Mob Violence?

Aizawl, May 2 : Even as the people of Vaphai unreasonably blamed Gauhati High Court for the torching of Saikhumphai Bawk, an alleged illegal settlement near the Mizoram-Myanmar border, the state administration was held responsible for the heinous crime. Severely criticising the government's inaction to contain mob violence, the Mizoram Bar Association today asked if the government instigated Monday's...

Mizoram Restricts Pork Sale As Fever Kills Over 600 Pigs

Aizawl, May 2 : Over 600 pigs have died from swine fever and about 12,200 have been infected in the past two months in Mizoram, officials said here Wednesday. “The endemic swine fever caused the death of as many as 470 pigs in Aizawl district alone while remaining 130 died in other districts. Over 12,200 pigs have been infected with the disease,” a Mizoram animal husbandry and veterinary...

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...