Bangalore's IT Workers Start Tech Tattoo Craze

Bangalore, May 17 : In Bangalore, India’s technology capital, tattoo artists have reported an uptick in men asking for brand tattoos to celebrate jobs at the world’s top technology companies, including Microsoft and IBM.Young high fliers in India’s technology capital Bangalore are so proud to work for Western technology firms such as Microsoft and IBM that they are having their logos tattooed on...

Why is Mizoram A Distant Dot in The National Mind Space?

A landslide in Aizawl that killed 17 people struggles to find space in the national as well as Northeast media. Why is there both, a national and regional disconnect with Mizoram, asks Ratnadip Choudhury The landslide site in Aizawl, Mizoram. PTI photo On 13 May, the website of a leading English daily carried a story with the headline ‘Meghalaya landslide toll rises to 13, more...

Cyclone Mahasen Likely To Hit Mizoram Tonight

Mahasen Reaches Coastal Bangladesh Aizawl, May 16 : With Cyclone Mahasen likely to hit the State on Thursday night, the Mizoram Government has decided to close all schools on Friday and declared a half-holiday tomorrow. State Education Secretary K Lalnghinglova said today that a circular to this effect has already been issued and circulated to the head of the institutions of government schools...

Aizawl Landslide: All Bodies Recovered, Clearing Work Begins

Aizawl, May 16 : With the last remaining body being recovered from under the debris, the workers were now busy clearing the site here that was hit by the massive landslide on May 11 leaving 17 people dead.SP (Traffic) Lallianmawia on Wednesday said the body of Vanlalrema of S Lungpher village was recovered last night.This was the last of the 17 bodies that had been recovered from under huge chunk...

Update: Cyclone Mahasen Panic Grips Mizoram

Cyclone Mahasen to hit NE in 72 hrs GUWAHATI/KOHIMA: Tropical cyclone Mahasen is expected to hit northeast India in the next 72 hours with heavy rains and thunderstorms expected in the region. On May 16, the cyclone is expected to cross the Bangladesh coast between Khepupara and Teknaff, close to Chittagong.The cyclonic storm over the south-east Bay of Bengal moved northwards and lay centred near...

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),...