Lyngdoh is Meghalaya’s Hero

HAPPY BUNCH: Members of the Meghalaya team snapped with Sunil Chetri (back row, second from left) and Sachin Tendulkar after the team's triumph on Tuesday.Meghalaya clinched the 35th sub-junior National football championship, for the Coca-Cola Cup, beating back Odisha’s spirited efforts to win by a solitary goal from Ronald Lyngdoh.The under-15 final, held on Tuesday in searing noon temperature...

Mizoram Enacts Policy To Check Drug Menace

Aizawl, May 28 : The increasing drug menace in Mizoram has compelled the state government to formulate a new drug policy as at least 10,750 youths in the state, which has a population of barely 10 lakh, are intravenous drug users (IDUs), said Delhi-based UNODC project coordinator Kunal Kishore.Addressing a press conference in Aizawl on Monday, Kishore added that Mizoram is vulnerable due to its...

Barak: The Forgotten Valley

By Rahul KarmakarGuwahati, May 28 : For seven years, police in London were looking for Bangladeshi national Abdul Shakoor alias Moibul Haque for a double murder. Last week, Shakoor was arrested from Cachar in south Assam's Barak Valley. It turned out that months after fleeing London, he sneaked in from Bangladesh through the Meghalaya border. And Shakoor is no Columbus. It was quite an easy...

Drug Abuse Through Injections Increases

Aizawl, May 28 : Kumar Kishore, Project Co-Ordinator for the UNDOC Regional Office, South Asia has said that though heroin is still available in Mizoram, there is an increase in injecting prescription drugs such as, Dextropropoxyphene (Proxyvon/Parvon-Spas etc), which come in from Assam through the Silchar route."This situation has led to a spurt in the HIV cases as well as deaths due to abscesses...

'Iron Man' Retold In 60 Animated Seconds

8-bit Cinema is a new series from CineFix where popular films are given a retro 8-bit video game redesign and retold in 60 animated seconds. For the pilot episode, the 2008 Marvel Studios film, Iron Man, has been given an 8-bit Cinema treatment by Californian filmmakers Norwood...

Size Matters:how I went from an iPhone to a really big Android phone

I thought I wanted something 'iPhone-sized,' but I was wrong By Laura June 45inShare Late on the night of September 9th, 2012, I was sitting at my kitchen table, going over notes for a piece I was writing about video game arcades. The next morning at 6AM I was bound for an Amtrak train which would take me...

AFSPA Turns 55, Continues To Terrorise Manipur

AFSPA terror continues in Manipur. Imphal, May 24 : Enacted on 11 September 1958 by an Act of Parliament to tackle the Naga insurgency, the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) gives sweeping powers to security forces empowering them to arrest without a warrant or kill someone on suspicion without fear of prosecution. As this draconian law completed 55 years on 22 May 2013, the debate on...

Female Population in Assam Records Growth

Guwahati, May 24 : In Assam where the social status of women is high in comparison to some other states, female population recorded a growth rate of 19.7 per cent during the last decade compared to 18.2 per cent males against the previous decade's 18.5 per cent and 15.7 per cent.The growth rate of the female population in the state over males continued to be high during 2001-2011 as in the previous...