Mangalore Shut As Christians Protest Attack On Church

Schools and shops remained shut and vehicles kept off the roads in the coastal Karnataka city of Mangalore on Monday, following group clashes and demonstrations by Christian groups to protest attacks on them on...

Breaking News: Currency notes flashed in Indian Parliament

New Delhi: Pandemonium gripped the Lok Sabha (the Lower House) on Tuesday afternoon as opposition MPs suddenly flashed bundles of currency notes they said were being doled out by government supporters to bribe MPs...

Record-breaking cultivation

Hmarkhawlien, July 16, 2008: In 1916, Welsh Presbyterian evangelist Rev. Watkin Roberts, who led a band of 15 Hmar families from Tripura to settle in the Hmarkhawlien area in Assam’s Cachar district, had taught...

Highway to trouble

Among the many things not running smooth in this Northeastern state of India are the roads, especially the NH-150, reports Robert L Sungte. Among the many things not running smooth in Manipur, India’s...

Urban Pind, A Dog And Urban Pinch

By David Buhril* Very recently two serious incidents occurred in the Capital city that involves us- people from the North East. One, a media professional from Nagaland was prohibited from entering a public lounge...

Scholar expelled for killing dog in Indian varrsity

A group of animal rights activists marched into the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi on July 16 demanding punishment for a PHD scholar for allegedly hacking a stray dog to death inside his hostel...

'Cancer cure' found in Saikot village (India)

Saikot, June 11, 2008: Chawilien Cancer Medicine Research Agency, Saikot in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, has become the talk of the town. People are now making a beeline to Saikot to see for themselves, how...

A flower that bears seeds of doom?

Bamboo, that is used so extensively in northeast India for various purposes like building houses, bridges, in medicines, and more, spells doom in the form of famine the moment it starts flowering. But is it true,...
 

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