Airport Development in Northeast India To Suffer As AAI Slashes Fund

By Bikash Singh Parliamentary panel of Rajya Sabha has remarked that slashing of AAI budgetary support will hit the airport development programme in Northeast. Guwahati, May 11 : Parliamentary panel of Rajya Sabha has remarked that slashing of Airport Authority of India's (AAI) budgetary support will hit the airport development programme in Northeast India. Department related parliamentary...

Meghalaya's Controversial Private Varsity Has Centres in UP

Shillong, May 11 : Meghalaya Governor R.S. Mooshahary Friday said the controversial CMJ University, involved in issuing fake Ph.D. degrees to students, had also established centres in almost all districts of Uttar Pradesh.CMJ University, the first private varsity in this mountainous state capital of Meghalaya, hit media headlines following Mooshahary, who is also the 'visitor' of the university,...

India's Startup Companies Lacking Guardian 'Angels'

Indian entrepreneurs are struggling to find investors as venture capitalists increasingly shy away from risk. Only five percent of startups get funding. It is seen as a land of entrepreneurs, economic growth and huge business potential, but India appears to be failing its promising startup...

Northeast Students Want Team To Review AFSPA

Shillong, May 10 : An apex body of northeastern students' groups has suggested to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to depute a parliamentary team to study the misuse of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the region, a student leader said Thursday."We have suggested to the prime minister to send a parliamentary delegation to assess and report on the misuse of the AFSPA by the armed forces...

Over 200 Houses Damaged in Hailstorm in Mizoram

Aizawl, May 9 : Over 200 houses, especially tin- roofed and those with asbestos walls, were damaged in rain and hailstorm in different areas of Kolasib district in Mizoram, official sources said today.Sixty-three houses were damaged in Kolasib town and 100 others in nearby Thingdawl village in the rain and hailstorm yesterday, the sources said.Around 40 houses were also damaged in Bukpui village...

New Delhi Subway Riders Must Pass Breathalyzer

Critics worry new crackdown will put more drunks on roads The New Delhi subway is so tired of drunken passengers starting fights at night that it's setting up breathalyzers at all its stations, reports the Hindustan Times. Those who blow over the limit can't board a metro rail car. It's...

Landslides After Heavy Pre-Monsoon Rain in Mizoram

Aizawl, May 9 : A large number of villages in Mizoram have become inaccessible after landslides, triggered by heavy and incessant pre-monsoon rains that have been lashing the state since Saturday, have blocked the roads, official sources said on Wednesday.The landslides blocked the Champai road in Saiha district which connects the capital town with the Mizoram-Myanmar border.Kolasib district was...

Young Naga Entrepreneur Ventures Into Food Processing

Meet proprietress, T.J. Foods, T. Jemima Achumi, who ventured into non-conventional business by launching processed food under the product line ‘JEMMEEZ’. Achumi said she envisaged setting up a meat processing business in the state while she was a student in Delhi after she noticed that non-vegetarian processed food were easily available in the market, while it was not...