Are You Chinese, Peng Asks Northeast Students

New Delhi, Sep 18 : China's First Lady Peng Liyuan today mistook a group of students from the northeast India as Chinese only to be told by them that they were Indians.            As Peng entered the Tagore International School, she was greeted by students wearing Indian traditional costumes. She noticed a group of students, including...

No North-easterners To Serve China President in Ahmedabad, Why?

Sinlung Says: We are just wondering why? Are the people from Northeast not Indian enough? or India is afraid Chinese president will see them as its citizens? By Kuldeep TiwariThe Gujarat police don't want any untoward incident to mar the Chinese president's visit to Ahmedabad. Keeping the objective in mind, the police have asked the management of the hotel where Xi Jinping will be staying to ask...

5 Mizoram ‘Evangelists’ Freed On Bail

By Adam Halliday  Aizawl, Sep 18 : Five members of Mizoram Missionary Society arrested last week from Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, for allegedly offering money to a labourer to embrace Christianity have been released on bail and escorted to safety. The missionary workers were released Tuesday night after being taken into custody on September 12. The society has been working in the state for 27...

Nagaland Police Unearth illegal Tax Network run by NSCN(IM)

By Samudra Gupta KashyapGuwahati, Sep 18 : Three weeks after the newly appointed Governor of Nagaland constituted a high-powered committee to probe illegal taxation in the state, the police have unearthed an organised network, controlled by NSCN(IM) cadre, who were illegally taxing transport and commercial vehicles. The network also involved 17 transport and goods companies.The police action comes...

DoT May Soon Order Solar-Powered Tower Deployments in Northeast

New Delhi, Sep 18 : The telecom department (DoT) will shortly mandate deployment of solar powered towers to boost mobile coverage in the Northeast, especially in mountainous regions close to the Chinese border.DoT's plans to explore alternate energy sources to run mobile towers in the Northeast follows a recent study by the telecom regulator, which revealed major gaps in telecom coverage in Arunachal...

Lalmalsawma Appointed as Mizoram Chief Secretary

Aizawl, Sep 17 : Lalmalsawma was today appointed by the Union Home Ministry to take over as chief secretary of Mizoram from November one, 2014.The present incumbent L. Tochhawng would retire from service from that date.The order, issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs was sent to the state chief secretary and the principal secretary to the chief minister.Lalmalsawma is the 1983 batch (AGMU cadre)...

Aizawl Named ‘Permanent Venue’ of bi-annual Mumbai International Film Festival

Aizawl, Sep 16 : The Films Division under the I&B Ministry has announced that Mizoram capital Aizawl, which has no permanent theatre screening movies or any film-making infrastructure to speak of, will be a permanent venue for the bi-annual Mumbai International Film Festival.Speaking at the inaugural function of the week-long “MIFF in Mizoram” at Aizawl on Monday, Films Division Director General...

Meghalaya Boy Wins Bronze in World Kickboxing Championship

Shillong, Sep 16 : Edward Mawthoh, a junior from Meghalaya, has bagged a bronze medal at the World Kickboxing Championship 2014 held in Italy recently.Mawthoh competed in the 48kg category of the Under-16 full contact sports, which was held from September 6-14 at Rimini, where he bagged a bronze, Meghalaya Association of Kickboxing Organisations (MAKO) secretary Larry P Warjri said.Mawthoh lost...