Northeast To Have Air Ambulances Soon

Guwahati, Jul 2 : Patients from difficult-to-access locations in the landlocked northeastern states can heave a sigh of relief, as a Guwahati-based hospital is planning to launch air ambulance services to ferry patients from across the region.The Guwahati Neurological Research Centre (GNRC) Tuesday unveiled a plan to launch air ambulance and medical outreach programme using helicopters to remote...

Japan Finally Apologizes to Its Women

Say it like you mean it.                                                                                           Source: The Asahi Shimbun via...

Resume Peace Talks With KNO: Mizoram CM to Rajnath Singh

Aizawl, Jun 30 : Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla has appealed to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to resume peace talks with Manipur's Kuki National Organisation (KNO) leadership soon, an official statement today said.The statement said Lal Thanhawla met Singh in Delhi yesterday and informed the latter that the KNO was not fighting for secession from the Indian Union but struggled for rights...

Award For Mizoram Rural Bank

By Pankaj SarmaGuwahati, Jun 30 : The Mizoram Rural Bank has received recognition for successfully financing wineries run by self-help groups in Mizoram. The rural bank was presented with the Gold Award in the livelihood promotion category for SKOCH Financial Inclusion and Deepening Awards 2014 at the 36th SKOCH Summit held in New Delhi recently, a bank spokesman said.The award was given to the...

India To Have World’s Tallest Girder Rail Bridge in Northeast

By Samudra Gupta Kashyap Tunnel No. 14 on Jiribam-Imphal route. Summary At present, the Malarijeka via-duct in Montenegro, Europe, with a height of 139 metre is the highest such rail bridge, the official said. The much-delayed railway link to Manipur’s capital Imphal is set to get the world’s tallest girder rail bridge on the 125-km-long Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal route. First...

Arunachal CM urges Centre to reopen road linking India to China and Burma

By Manoj Anand Stilwell Road (Photo Courtesy: gokumming.com) Guwahati, Jul 30 : In what may change the face of landlocked border states of India’s Northeast, most of the region’s Chief Ministers have urged the Centre to reopen the historic Stilwell Road, linking India to China and Burma by land. The historic road was built in 1942 by the Allied forces for swift passage of British and...

Work on Agartala-Akhaura Railway Link To Begin Next Year

Agartala, Jun 30 : The proposed 15-km long railway link from Agartala to Akhaura will bring economic prosperity and strengthen people to people contact between India and Bangladesh.An eight-member delegation from Bangladesh recently met their Indian counterparts during the third meeting of the Agartala-Akhaurah railway Link Project Steering Committee in Agartala.They did a field inspection and visited...

18 Candidates From Northeast India 17 Clear Civil Services Examination

New Delhi, Jun 30 : 30-year-old Shimray Asaiwo Bellrose, a Tangkhul Naga who hails from Lunghar village in Manipur, is proud to have cleared the civil services examination, 2013, conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.She has secured the 1106th position in the final list of the successful candidates.Bellrose has been staying in New Delhi since 2011 after completing her Msc in Botany from...