This Startup Wants to Turn Your Old Electronics Into Solid Gold

By Issie Lapowsky   Image: BlueOak Sometimes, numbers say it all. About 50 million tons of electronic waste were generated worldwide in 2012, according to a United Nations report. The same report predicted that number would grow to 65.4 million tons of e-waste by 2017. To put that in context, that’s about 200 Empire State Buildings or, for the more worldly, 11 Great Pyramids of...

Can Rape Ever Be Right?

By Magda Mis Members of the All Assam Photojournalist Association wear black sashes over their mouths at a protest against the rape of a photojournalist by five men in an abandoned textile mill in Mumbai. Picture Guwahati, northeast India, August 24, 2013. REUTERS/Utpal Baruah ...

John Abraham Launches North East United Football Club

Football fans across the North East were ecstatic when Guwahati was selected as one of the eight franchise cities of the proposed Indian Super League (ISL). The ISL is a football League promoted by IMG , Reliance and Star India which is all set to kick off from mid September to November 2014. The ISL received an overwhelming response as numerous corporate houses of the country and top sporting...

Over 500 Non-Residents Pushed Back From Mizoram

Aizawl, Jun 10 : Mizoram police have pushed back more than 500 non-residents for not possessing valid inner line permits (ILP), an official said here Tuesday.The ILP is mandatory to enter and stay in the tribal dominated mountainous state of Mizoram which shares borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh."Police with the help of local NGOs launched a drive across the state since Friday and arrested 503 non-tribals...

Turkey, Burma, Peru, Antarctica, France ... the most incredible spots on Earth not overrun by tourists

The spectacular Zhangye Danxia hills of China. Picture: rolando000 Source: Flickr IT’S one thing to tick off seeing the iconic sites around the world, but to stumble across places so remote and untouched is even more exhilarating. We’ve put together a list of the most incredible locations around the world that have managed to stay off the...

No Criminal Case Against Mizoram CM for Drinking Alcohol under Prohibition

Aizawl, Jun 10 : Mizoram Police has not registered a criminal case against the Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla who allegedly drank alcohol as the state have been under prohibition.   The FIR signed by Laltanpuia Pachuau was received on June 4 at Aizawl police station and the police officers were instructed to conduct preliminary inquiry, police said.           ...

Mizoram Chief Minister Meets PM

The Chief Minister of Mizoram, Shri Lal Thanhawla, called on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi, today. The official Twitter handle of the PMO tweeted: ...

ONGC Strikes Gas in Mizoram

Aizawl, Jun 10 : Oil major ONGC has struck gas in its Kolosib sector in northwest Mizoram for the first time.Mizoram’s geology and mineral resources H. Rohluna, said N.K. Verma, director of exploration of the corporation, revealed the findings on Saturday.According to official sources, Verma did not choose to divulge the fact earlier because the total quantity of gas reserve at the site in Meidum...