Mary Kom Gives Birth To Baby Boy in Imphal

Imphal May 15 : And it’s a boy! Supermom and superfighter Mary Kom this afternoon had her third baby, a bonny boy, six years after her twins were born in 2007.A C-section arrival, the boy is yet to be named, said Onler Kom, Mary’s husband and proud father of three.“Both the mother and newborn are doing well. The boy is very healthy,” Mary Kom’s doctor N. Purnima Devi said after the operation at...

26.03% Growth in Arunachal Population

Women outpace men By PRANAB KUMAR DAS Tezpur, May 15 : The population of Arunachal Pradesh according to Census 2011 is 13,83,727, a decadal growth of 26.03 per cent. The highest decadal growth in population has been recorded in Kurung Kumey district. Papum Pare occupies the first position in population density, followed by Tirap district. The lowest density of population has been recorded...

MZP To Carry Out Census Of Chakmas in Mizoram

Aizawl, May 13 : The Federal Council meeting of the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), the Mizo apex student body, resolved to conduct an elaborate census of the Chakmas in Mizoram.The Federal Council comprises not only the leaders of the general and district headquarters, but also leaders of ethnicity-based student associations like the Hmar Students' Association, Siamsin Pawl Pi (SSP - Paite Students Organization),...

Cyclone Mahasen Headed For Mizoram; Northeast India

Bangladesh Issues Warning As Cyclone Mahasen ApproachesDhaka, May 13 : Maritime ports in Bangladesh were Sunday advised to take adequate precautionary measures as cyclone Mahasen originating in the southeast Bay of Bengal, moved slightly towards the northwest."Depression which has already turned into cyclonic storm would likely move initially northwestwards during the next 36 hours and recurve thereafter...

India Of A Thousand Dreams!

By Ibu Sanjeeb Garg I am from the North-East — a paradise unexplored as those grandiose “Incredible India” campaigns would spell. I belong to the land of the rhino, the national parks and the dances. But I also belong to the land which is on the wrong side of the “looks” discourse. Where I come from people don’t have long noses and sharp big eyes; we have flat noses and small eyes. Colloquially,...

Behind Fall Of A Meghalaya Univ, Rise And Rise Of A ‘Chancellor’

By Samudra Gupta KashyapGuwahati, May 13 : If PhD degrees in one year to 434 candidates is a "feat" for which CMJ University in Shillong now finds its doors sealed, the growth of its chancellor in the field of academics has not been any less exponential.Till the early 1980s, as far as anyone can remember, Chandra Mohan Jha was a petty government contractor. By the time he moved on to his first educational...

Aizawl Landslip Toll On The Rise

Aizawl, May 13 : The toll in yesterday’s landslide at Laipuitlang in Aizawl mounted to 14 today, spurring the Mizo National Front to demand the resignation of chief minister Lal Thanhawla, who is also the state’s PWD minister.As the rescue efforts entered the second day today, four more bodies were located in the rubble. One of them, that of Zakir Hussain of Karimganj, was extracted. Another squall...

Northeast Students Body Demands Separate Time Zone

NESO members at the news conference in New Delhi on Friday. Picture by Yasir IqbalNew Delhi, May 11 : The Northeast may have been dubbed backward but the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) is convinced the region is “ahead” in time.A delegation of the student organisation told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a meeting this week that the Northeast should have a separate time zone, an hour...