Mizoram Woman Booked For Facebook Post

Aizawl, Sep 23 : A senior office bearer of the Mizoram Pradesh Youth Congress Committee has filed a police complaint against a woman here for a Facebook post in which she alleged that a Mizo fugitive and his friends were beaten up in Delhi by two members of the party unit.Acting on the complaint from secretary of the committee R Lalhmingmawia Ralte, the police filed an FIR on Monday against Lalrinfeli,...

By November, Rajdhani Express to Reach Arunachal Pradesh

By Avishek G Dastidar Indian Railways is set to kick off the Rajdhani Express between Arunachal Pradesh and New Delhi by November. New Delhi, Sep 23 : Arunachal Pradesh agrees to relax the rigid norm of inner-line permit for passengers with reserved tickets. The Indian Railways is set to kick off the Rajdhani Express between Arunachal Pradesh and New Delhi by November. To make travel...

India’s Last Surviving Headhunters

The largest tribe in Nagaland The remote village of Longwa, with Myanmar’s dense forests on one side and India’s rich agricultural lands on the other, is home to the fierce Konyak Naga tribe. The largest of 16 tribes living in the remote northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, the Konyaks were warriors with brutal pasts, using inter-village fights to accede land and ascertain...

10 Dead as Floods Wreak Havoc in Assam and Meghalaya

Two men wade through flood water looking for a safer location at Goalpara in Assam on Monday Heavy rains across northeast India wreaked havoc triggering flash floods in several districts of Assam and Meghalaya, killing ten people and leaving scores homeless in the two states. Seven persons were killed in Meghalaya's South West Garo Hills district after...

Indefinite Strike in Meghalaya From Tuesday Against NGT’s Coal Mining Ban

The ban was issued following a complaint by the All Dimasa Students’ Union of the adjoining Dima Hasao district of Assam, which contended that rat-hole mining in Meghalaya had polluted the Kopili river. By Samudra Gupta KashyapGuwahati, Sep 23 : Four months after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had ordered a ban on ‘rat-hole’ coal mining in Meghalaya, an organization called Movement ...

Probe against Ahmedabad hotel for asking northeast Indian staff to stay away during Xi Jinping's visit

Its a too little too late...Its the mainland Indian attitude... Ahmedabad's Hotel Hyatt which hosted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China's President Xi Jinping. NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry on Monday ordered a probe into allegation that employees of northeast origin at an Ahmedabad hotel were asked to stay away during Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit to the city. Sources...

Verdict Due in 2010 Gang-Rape of Mizoram Woman

By Aditi Malhotra Women held placards placards during a peaceful protest in New Delhi Two years before the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012 shook India and shocked the world, another young woman in India’s capital was gang-raped in a moving vehicle, this time at gunpoint. The verdict in the trial of the men accused of the crime is expected Monday.On November 24, 2010,...

Lovers by the lake: Why Rih Dil is a must-visit for newlyweds from Mizoram

The water’s lovely: Newly-weds at Rih Dil in Myanmar (Source: C Lalmuanzova) By Adam Halliday A day after their mid-January church wedding in the eastern Mizoram town of Champhai, Merlyn Lalrinpuii and her husband Duhawma packed their wedding outfits and boarded one of several hired maxi-cabs with about 20 close relatives, friends, make-up artists and a wedding photographer in tow,...