*Angry villagers organise protest rally at Muolhoi HAFLONG/HMARKHAWLIEN (NC, Hills, ASSAM): Indian security personnel are known for taking on soft targets in Northeast India. And on July 27, they again unleashed their brutality on an innocent 3-month pregnant woman who tried to save her husband from their blows. The injured woman, Mrs Lalremruot,  has been [...]

Shillong: National Commission for Minorities (NCM) vice-chairman HT Sangliana has asked the North Eastern states to constitute minority commissions which can act as nodal agencies to facilitate development programmes and welfare schemes for minorities. Stating that only Assam has set up the panel in the NE region, he asked the states to take action for [...]

Imphal: The United Naga Council has served a five-day  “ultimatum” to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by asking him to institute a judicial inquiry into the Mao Gate ‘massacre’ of May 6, 2010. The Nagas are also demanding the withdrawal of CrPc Section 144 and “delimitarisation” of Naga inhabited areas by the Indian reserve Battalion and [...]

From Jaydip Chakrabarti Agartala, 28 July: The ruling leftist Government in Tripura has decided to transfer more control to Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) on Tuesday to speed up tribal development. The State Tribal Welfare Minister, Aghore Debbarma said that TTAADC would take charge of seven more departments including the State Finance of [...]

From Joydip Chakrabarti Agartala: The Tripura Medical College (TMC) faculty members staged an one hour cease-work on July 26 braving the threat of ‘Essential Services Maintenance Act’ (ESMA) at the college campus. However, imposition of ESMA to postpone the agitation has caused discomfort to ruling Leftist Government. In a statement, the State Health Minister expressed [...]

IMPHAL: Angry over the Manipur government’s “failure” to check the attacks on tribal-area bound buses, Manipur Tribal Forum has demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Ibobi Singh. The Tribal People Forum, Manipur (TPFM) “strongly” condemned the “systematically planned” violence attacked and vandalizing of the Mao passenger vehicles sustaining serious injuries of one passenger and damaging [...]

From Joydip Chakrabarti Agartala: The Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) is once again showed its weakness to create public opinion against the ruling Leftists in Tripura relating to job offer in PG category. The leaders of TPCC are reportedly busy with leadership issue and completely failed to cash in public anger. Alleged nepotism in job [...]

Bangalore: Airtel prepaid mobile phone subscribes had a harrowing time on Monday as they were unable to make outgoing call or send SMSes for over 4 hours. “Not only was I was not able to make outgoing calls but can’t even check my prepaid balance,” said Anita Nair. When contacted, Airtel customer care people replied [...]

Churachandpur: The Manipur Hill Journalists’ Union, MHJU, have settled scores with the Hmar Peoples’ Convention, HPC(D), over the latter’s act of intimidating the Churachandpur based correspondent of the Sangai Express on July 21 at about 11: 45 am after intruding into his home. The development came after a meeting between the MHJU and HPC(D) yesterday [...]

Bangalore: Sex tainted-godman Swami Nithyananda who was caught in a compromising position with Tamil actress Ranjitha said in a video message that he felt “deeply sorry” for her. The Bangalore-based guru said the sex “scam” did not had any effect on his personal image but blamed some “people” for targeting his devotees, especially actress Ranjitha. [...]

Indian hockey player T S Ranjitha, who was allegedly sexually harassed by coach M K Kaushik reveals the story behind the sex scandal. She told Times Now that Kaushik called her to his room and asked for sexual favours when they were in a camp at Bhopal. The coach did not end his sexual advances [...]

IMPHAL, PTI: Ten militants were killed and four injured in a fierce gunbattle between two Kuki groups at a remote area in Manipur, police said on Thursday. The gunfight between the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) and Kuki National Front-Presidium (KNF-P) took place in interior Seijang hill area on the border between Imphal East and Senapati [...]

New Delhi: The Hockey India committee is seriously looking into allegations of sexual harassment made by Ranjitha Devi against former Indian women’s hockey team coach M K Kaushik. According to news sources, The committee will also talk to some of the players who have supported Ranjitha Devi. After resigning as national women’s hockey coach, MK [...]

Bruce K. Thangkhal New Delhi: Demanding Scheduled Caste status under Indian Constitution, the Christians and Muslims of Dalit communities held rally here in Parliament Street on July 21. The rally was organised by the National Council of Dalit Christians (NCDC), Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI), National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), All India [...]

New Delhi: Indian women’s hockey coach MK Kaushik on Wednesday resigned after sleaze charges were labelled against him. (Watch video below) The resignation came a day after the sex scandal rocked Indian hockey with a support staff member having been accused of sexual misconduct while on a tour. Thirty-one players filed a written complaint against [...]

A senior Assam Congress leader and an IAS officer have reportedly colluded with militants in the massive Rs 1000 crore scam in North Cachar Hills, reports CNN-IBN yesterday. Money was siphoned off from Central funds allotted to North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council with the National Investigative Agency saying the scam could be funding terror. Central [...]

* Helplines: 033-23503537, 23503535, 26382581, 3532/7412 West Bengal: At least 49 passengers were killed and over 150 injured when the speeding Sealdah-bound Uttarbanga Express rammed into the rear of the Vanachal Express pulling out of the Sainthia station in Birbhum district early today. Eastern Railway sources in Kolkata said that 49 passengers of the Vanachal [...]

Mokokchung: The 3rd Federal Assembly of the Naga Hoho was held here at Tourist Lodge Mokokchung hosted by the Ao Senden on July 16. The Assembly was attended by the various federating tribal Hoho representatives and made the following resolutions. 1. The House resolved to institute Naga Hoho Working Committee to be headed by former [...]

The new Indian rupee symbol is now available for download! DOWNLOAD Rupee Foradian HERE NOW! How to use ? (or Watch video below) 1. Download the above attached file. 2. Extract it to Fonts folder Or, After downloading the file. Extract it to your desktop. Then copy the Rupee_Foradian.ttf and paste it in C/windows/Fonts Voila, [...]

Islamabad, Agencies: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has revved up the diplomatic cold war after talks between him after and his Indian counterpart ended with an acrimonious press conference in Islamabad on Thursday. Addressing the media in Islamabad on Friday afternoon Qureshi alleged that Krishna kept receiving telephone calls from New Delhi during their [...]

New Delhi: The jury has given its verdict: the rupee will retain its Indian character with an international flavour. The five-member panel has chosen IIT post-graduate D Udaya Kumar’s design from among five shortlisted symbols and recommended it for Cabinet approval. Kumar’s symbol is an amalgam of the Devanagari ‘Ra’ and the Roman capital ‘R’ [...]