Four Years After Delhi’s Other Gang Rape, Five Convicted

By Aditi Malhotra A woman held a placard during a protest against the gang rape of a northeastern woman in Delhi’s south in 2010. Before the famous Delhi gang rape case in 2012, there was this one:  In 2010, five men raped and kidnapped a 30-year-old female call center employee in India’s capital, a judge ruled on Tuesday. The woman, who had come to India’s capital from the northeastern state...

95 Percent of Mapping of Mizoram Schools Completed: Minister

Aizawl, Oct 15 : Mapping of all the schools in Mizoram was being conducted and 95 per cent of the work has been completed, state School Education minister H Rohluna said today.Speaking at the function when the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) Mission officials and the Young Mizo Association (YMA) signed a memorandum of understanding to work together, Rohluna said that the mapping work would be completed...

Manipur Rebel Outfit Pulls Out Of Peace Talks

Imphal, Oct 15 : The United Revolutionary Front (URF) which signed a ceasefire agreement with the Manipur government has pulled out of peace talks. The group which had denounced the state government's current surrender policy now wants back the arms and ammunition it deposited while signing the peace pact. Deputy chief minister Gaikhangam said the state government would discuss the matter...

Foreign Tourists inflow into the Northeast India Has increased by 27%

Shillong, Oct 15 : Foreign tourists inflow into Northeastern states has increased by over 27 per cent last year against a national growth of only 5.9 per cent, a top Union Tourism department official said here today. "The number of foreign tourists visiting the Northeast region has increased by 27.9 per cent in the past one year," Union Tourism Ministry Secretary Parvez Dewan told...

Ebola Scare in Manipur, High Alert in The Northeast

A Japanese tourist currently living in Manipur has been kept in isolation for showing symptoms akin to Ebola. Alerted by this development, all state governments of the North East have increased their screening procedures for immediate detection of cases of Ebola and have also started keeping a close watch on the entry of foreign nationals in the states. According to a news report...

Government’s Bid To Import Rice From Myanmar Flounders

By Sandip Das New Delhi, Oct 14 : The government's attempt to import about one lakh tonne of rice from Myanmar for the Targeted Pubic Distribution System (TPDS)The government's attempt to import about one lakh tonne of rice from Myanmar for the Targeted Pubic Distribution System (TPDS) in Manipur and Mizoram may not succeed, with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) getting bids far higher than the...

Lost Child-Tracing Portal Hit By Poor Infrastructure in Northeast India

Guwahati, Oct 13 : Lack of computers in many police stations and poor internet connectivity have stopped police in many northeastern states from uploading data in TrackChild, a national portal aimed at searching missing children, say officials.Representatives of state governments in the region raised the issue during a consultation on TrackChild, organized by the union women and child development...

Tripura Rebels Demand Rs 30 Lakh Ransom To Release 11 Non-Tribals

Aizawl, Oct 13 : Tripura’s NLFT rebels and a group of Bru militants, who allegedly abducted 11 non-tribals from Mamit district on the Mizoram-Bangladesh-Tripura border, have demanded Rs 30 lakh ransom for their release.Mamit DSP C Lalnunmawia said  the abductors, now suspected to be inside Bangladesh jungles, called up relatives of the hostages in Patharkandi, demanding Rs 30 lakh for the release...