After ward boy confesses, Assam medical student is held for ‘killing’ woman doctor

By Samudra Gupta Kashyap Dipmoni Saikia has been sent to police custody for 7 days. ( source: PTI ) Summary According to Dibrugarh SP Rana Bhuyan, ward boy claimed that Saikia had also sexually abused the victim. Guwahati, May 15 : Five days after a first-year post-graduate student of the Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh was found murdered in the duty room of the gynaecology department,...

Myanmar patients in India

Patients who suffer from tuberculosis and are HIV positive cross into northeastern state of Manipur for treatment. By Bijoyeta Das A doddering healthcare system pushes many from Myanmar to cross the Indian border into the town Moreh in the northeastern state of Manipur, to seek testing and treatment....

Hoffenheim Win First Friendly in Mizoram

The visitors eventual won 3-0 in a game that was broadcasted to the whole of India Hoffenheim coach Markus Gisdol (l.) and striker Roberto Firmino (r.) look on from the touchline as the Sinsheim side took on a Mizoram State XI Die Kraichgauer received a warm welcome when they arrived at the stadium in Aizawl... ...as well as at the local airport Hoffenheim travelled to India on 11 May and will...

Taxation Goes Online in Mizoram

Aizawl, May 15 : Good news and great relief for tax payers, the Mizoram Taxation Department has extended its e-services by enabling payment of tax through the Internet, leaving behind the tradition of making long queue to pay taxes no matter on sunny or rainy days.For the convenient of the people who pay taxes to the government, the Taxation department has launched a new version, of its e-payment...

Mizoram: Bamboozled By Land Use Policy

By T. R. Shankar Raman BETTER LAND USE: The jhum landscape mosaic of fields, regenerating fallows, and forests (in picture) is a better form of land use and forest cover than monoculture oil palm plantations. Photo: T.R. Shankar Raman Forest cover loss has occurred at a period when area under jhum cultivation is declining, suggesting that the land use policy has been counterproductive...

Kohhran Thianghlim believes that god has ‘shifted’ the site of the legendary building to Aizawl

Religious sect’s ‘Third Temple’ draws crowds ZODIN SANGA An image of the temple to be built in Aizawl. Telegraph picture Aizawl, May 14 : A religious sect in Mizoram has come to believe that god has “shifted” the site of the legendary Third Temple to the Mizoram capital. According to legend, King Solomon had built the First Temple on Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the current...

Unpaid media employees of Northeast India

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati, May 14  : India's highest court on April 9 ruled that journalists and non-journalists of newspapers and news agencies are entitled to a pay hike under the recommendations of the Majithia Wage Board. Dismissing pleas by various owners seeking a review of its earlier judgment, the Supreme Court directed publishers to implement the recommendations...

₹5,000-cr project to improve mobile connectivity in Northeast

By Thomas K Thomas/Abhishek LawTelecom Commission gives in-principle approvalDelhi/Kolkata, May 14 :  The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology is planning to extend basic mobile coverage, including voice calling, in far-flung areas of eight north-eastern States, at an estimated cost of over ₹5,000 crore.According to TRAI, at least 20 per cent of the villages in the North-East...