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Employees Union cracks down on graft
Imphal, Oct 6 : An employees’ organisation of Manipur’s excise department today urged chief secretary Rakesh Sharma to check assets and also verify the integrity of officers of the department. “...
Back To The Future
By Teresa Rehman ‘Illegal’ migrants rounded up by AASU in Dibrugarh Photo:UB Photos Every timw he sets out for work, Iman Ali, 32, a riskshaw-puller in Guwahati, is careful to tu...
KSO and ANSAM warn of ‘joint struggle’
Imphal, Oct 6 : The Kuki Students’ Organisation, General Headquarters (KSO-GHq) and All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) while warning of resorting “a joint struggle” to have a sep...
Indians killing Indians
By B.Raman 1.There is no other way of describing the wave of jihadi terrorist strikes spreading death and destruction across India since July,2006, and the wave of anti-Christian violence being seen i...
Agartala linked to rail network
Agartala, Oct 6 : Regular train services between Tripura and the rest of the country began yesterday when a senior railway employee flagged off the inaugural train here. This northeastern state capita...
National Entrance Examination for Design (NEED) 2009 for NID Admissions
National Institute of Design (NID) Hyderabad will conduct National Entrance Examination for Design (NEED) 2009 - a qualifying examination of the following consortium partner institutions for admission...
MFC Admissions – Dept.of Financial Studies, Delhi University
Department of Financial Studies of Delhi University invites applications for Two-Year (full-time) Master of Finance and Control (MFC) Programme for the academic session 2009-2011 commencing from Jul...
Representative voices
By Gopi K. Kottoor 60 Indian Poets is an anthology marked by benevolence and fairness in its inclusion of near-forgotten and emerging poets. We need more such objectivity and fairness to nurtu...
India looks at more currency chests in NE
The government on Saturday said it would facilitate faster establishment of currency chests in the north eastern (NE) region of the country, but asked the NE states to ensure their security. “We are...
TN Haokip urges for foreign exchange facilities in Manipur
New Delhi, Oct 5 : One-day Special Summit on Banking, Industries and Credit Issues in the North Eastern Region with an emphasis on financial inclusion was held today at Vigyan Bhawan here under the ae...
Mizoram Christians CRY ‘Peace for all’
In what appeared to be the largest congregation in recent times, tens of thousands of Mizo Christians took to the streets in Aizawl today condemning the increasing violence against Christians in Oriss...
Concert to uproot cancer from Northeast India
Guwahati, Oct 3 : The incidence of cancer in the Northeast is the highest in the country, but the abysmally low awareness about the disease has set a group of young people to devise a novel way to c...
Google Launches own Memetracker
Google has introduced a new home page for its Blog Search that resembles the popular news aggregator Techmeme’s interface. The aim is the same - top stories from various topics are displayed as ...
Use Microsoft Search, win prizes
In a bid to close the ever-widening gap with Google on Internet searches, Microsoft has started offering consumers redeemable points for using its search service. The programme was launched as new Web...
IT education losing shine
As tech companies go slow on hiring this fiscal, manpower training and placement firms are witnessing a shift in demand for skill-based training from IT to non-IT sectors. These institutes, which offe...
When the Bubble Bursts
When cadres start training their guns on each other, it is a clear sign that militancy in the Northeast has reached a saturation point By Patricia Mukhim Jose Ortega y’ Gasset in Revolt of the ...
India and the temples of doom
By Neeta Lal Barely two months after an horrific temple stampede crushed 162 people to death at a famous Hindu shrine in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, comes yet another temple trag...
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Sikkim’s Namgyal Institute of Tibetology turns fifty
Gangtok, Oct 2 : The five-day golden jubilee celebrations of world famous Namgyal Institute of Tibetology (NIT) was declared open by Sikkim Governor Balmiki Prasad Singh today in presence of a galaxy ...
National Women’s Panel notice to Nagaland Govt
New Delhi, Oct 2 : Even as pressure on the Centre is mounting to act, a delegation of human rights activists called on the Malaysian High Commission and the National Commission for Women to intervene ...
NE states for common security force
Shillong, Oct 2 : The seven northeastern states have asked the Centre to consider raising a separate security force for the region to decrease its dependence on Delhi and to strengthen counter-insurge...
Manipur govt threatened with ‘drastic actions’
Dimapur, Oct 2 : The Memai Council (Mao Council) and Zeliangrong Union Senapati Zone today threatened to take “drastic actions” by launching a general strike and an indefinite economic blockade al...
Rally against violence on Christians taken out in Tamenglong
Tamenglong, Oct 2 : Hundreds of Christians in Tamenglong district of Manipur marched down the streets at the district headquarters to protest against the atrocities meted out to the Christians in Oris...
After ONGC, Oil India looks to mine country’s uranium
By Utpal Bhaskar Nuclear Power Corp. estimates India has some 78,000 tonnes of uranium, about 0.8% of the world’s reserves New Delhi, Oct 1 : Anticipating a big push in nuclear power, state-ow...
Has Facebook makeover bombed?
The makeover of popular social networking site Facebook has not gone well with several of its users. These users have termed the new design, which has become default for almost all its members, confus...
IGNOU to start certificate programme in community radio
New Delhi, Sep 30 : The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Monday announced its plans to start a six-month certificate programme in ‘community radio’ from January next year....
Ten Best tech Employers
By Manisha Singh Which are the best IT companies to work for and what is it that makes them so? Which are the companies which are setting new paradigms with their HR policy? The recent Dataquest’...
Beware, clickjackers on the prowl
By Megha Dhawan If you thought your computer is attack-proof merely because you had a fully-updated and licenced antivirus software, it is time to worry. A new browser vulnerability, Clickjacking, has...
Threats against Indian protest song
By Alastair Lawson Tura, Meghalaya Black Friday tribute song Three years ago the streets of the quiet and sleepy north-east Indian towns of Tura and Williamnagar reverberated to the sound of...
India schools close to protest violence
Bangalore, Sep 30 : Christian groups have expressed dismay at attempts by India’s Karnataka state government to take action against hundreds of church educational institutions after they closed for ...