Irom Sharmila Must Be Released, Says Court, Rejects Attempted Suicide Charges

By Alok Pandey Activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for 14 years Imphal, Aug 20 :  Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike in Manipur for 14 years, must be released, a local court said today, rejecting charges of attempted suicide against her. Irom Chanu Sharmila, 42, has been on a hunger...

Govt Creates Separate Manipur, Tripura Cadres for IAS, IPS

New Delhi, Aug 20 : The government has created separate cadres of Manipur and Tripura for IAS, IPS and IFoS officers.Earlier, Manipur-Tripura acted as a joint cadre for officers of all India services (AIS)--Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS).The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has also come out with a draft list of allocation...

Thenzawl in Mizoram to be named ‘Handloom City’

Thenzawl, in the state of Mizoram will be named a Handloom City, a government official said. Parliamentary Secretary, Joseph Lalhimpuia announced this recently, when on a visit to the Handloom Complex under Industries Department in Thenzawl, Mizo News reported. Located 43 kms from Aizwal, the state capital, Thenzawl is an important hub of traditional...

Kuki Militant Leader Meets Rijiju in Delhi

New Delhi, Aug 19 : Kuki National Organisation (KNO) Defence Secretary TS Haokip met Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on August 16 in New Delhi and discussed the proposed commencement of political dialogue between the two parties in the near future.Sources said that Rijiju had assured the KNO leader to engage in the political dialogue soon. “Yes, we got a positive response from the...

Sedition, Devastation And The Birth Of A Nation

By Garga ChatterjeeIn 1966, the Indian Air Force bombed Mizoram, including the present capital Aizawl. The sanitised term 'collateral damage' was not in vogue then. When Mizos were being attacked with incendiary bombs that only an Air Force raised on Gandhian ideology could provide, many of those bombed must have had a lot of thoughts rushing through their heads. I suspect that some thoughts were...

Mizo Police Deported 309 For Violating ILR

Aizawl, Aug 19 : Mizoram Police have deported 309 non-tribals who violated the Inner Line Regulations (ILR) during this year, state home department officials today said.The officials said the ILR violators included those who entered and stayed in the state without valid Inner Line Permit (ILP), those who misused their ILPs and those who failed to extend their ILPs.The arrested non-tribals were produced...

Northeast CMs' Meet To Decide Roadmap For Development

Agartala, Aug 19 : DoNER Minister Gen (retd) VK Singh would meet the chief ministers of all eight northeastern states in Guwahati Aug 21-22 to decide a roadmap for the development of the region, an official said here on Monday.This would be the Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) minister's first meeting with the chief ministers of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland,...

Dimapur’s ‘Illicitly Open’ Liquor Industry

A group of people are seen drinking liquor in one of the many clandestine establishments which sell alcohol in Dimapur. Photo by Caisii Mao   By Imti Longchar   Dimapur, Aug 19 : Amidst zealous and earnest debates flooding newspapers, social networking sites and road side liquor joints on the fallacy that Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act (NLTP) 1989 is or not, a less perturbed...