2nd Edition of North East India Choral Singing Competition in Delhi

The Tangkhul Christian Charitable Trust (TCCT) is once again organizing the 2nd Annual North East India Singing Competition at Thyagaraj Stadium on 10th Nov. 2013 on the theme "TOGETHERNESS". This will be a one day event with a participation of about 13 Choirs (each choirs comprises of minimum 20 and maximum 60 members) of North Eastern community bases fellowships of NCT. This event will confine...

Korean Band Biuret To Visit Nagaland And Manipur

Korean pop rock trio Biuret will be performing in India for the first time. The tour is an initiative by Korean Cultural Centre India, in association with Sevendiary.com (for the Northeast dates) to celebrate 40 years of Indo-South Korean friendship. The full tour dates are: November 29 – South Asian Bands Festival, New Delhi December 01 – Hornbill Festival 2013, Kohima December 03 – Maramfest...

Aamir Khan Celebrates Wife's Birthday in Assam

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan and his entourage, which includes directors Karan Johar and Ayan Mukherji gave a surprise visit to the tea plantation town of Tezpur in Assam on Wednesday. According to DNA source, the 3 Idiots celeb is reported to be holidaying in a private resort inside Nameri National Park in Sonitpur district, near Tezpur with his family and close friends to celebrate his wife Kiran...

Bollywood Still Averse To Casting Faces From Northeast: Mary Kom

NEW DELHI: Boxing icon MC Mary Kom considers the northeast "one region". She now aims to bring home a bigger accolade than her Olympic medal, but also wishes to mentor young talent from the region who can carry forward her legacy. At the North East Festival 2013 on Saturday, she poured her heart out. She said she misses watching Bollywood movies in Manipur because of the ban on screening of Hindi...

Can Mizoram’s Unique Campaigning Model Be Replicated Elsewhere?

AIZAWL: The fervour of two events driving the country crazy — Sachin Tendulkar's swansong Tests and the upcoming assembly elections — is missing almost entirely in Mizoram. Being in a football-crazy state, it is understandable that most television sets are tuned in to mundane Hindi soaps, films dubbed in the local language and western music videos even as the Maestro turns out at Kolkata's Eden...

Election in the Lord’s Own Country

Aizawl, Nov 8 : 'Thy Kingdom Come.' That's how Mizoram welcomes you. Painted big and bold across a giant Cross a few yards from the runway at state capital Aizwal's Lengpui airport, the message seems ominous as you get familiar with the political nitty-gritty of this Christian-dominated state.Here, the entire election process has a sense of divine edict about it. Not only does the Church have a...

Mizoram Ponzi Victims Pin Hopes On Assembly Polls

By Rahul KarmakarAizawl, Nov 8 : Much before the Saradha storm, Mizoram endured Chiahpuam that hit 10,000 families across the urban landscape. The victims have now regrouped to elect whoever can get their money back.Chiahpuam was a Ponzi scheme that caught the fancy of Mizos a decade ago until the bubble burst in 2008. Hundreds of investors, mostly government servants, found that they had sunk `80-90crore...

Mizoram Starved For Power, Yet Wary of Building Dams

By Adam HallidayAizawl, Nov 8 : One development plan that seems to be moving backwards in poll-bound Mizoram is hydro power."We have said many times we are going to dam all our rivers," Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla had said when this journalist asked AICC general secretary Luizinho Faleiro in September how the party intends to boost the state's debt-ridden economy if it wins again.The state Congress...