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Central team on visit to Arunachal Pradesh to assess damage

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 11:34 AM PST

A high level inter-ministerial central team led by Prafulla Kerketta, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, is on a five-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh. Their visit is aimed to assess the damages caused due to natural disasters during 2012 in the state and verify the worst affected areas, official sources said here today. Chief Minister [...]

Kaziranga National Park : Two carcasses of one-horned rhinos recovered

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 11:30 AM PST

In a shocking reminder of unabated rhino killing last year, forest officials of Assam on Friday recovered two carcasses of one-horned rhinos in two different isolated sandbars of Brahmaputra river. Both the rhino carcasses bore bullet injuries and their horns were removed by poachers, official said. "This is the first case of rhino poaching this [...]

Resentment in Tripura Congress over candidates list

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 11:27 AM PST

Resentment is brewing within the opposition Congress in Tripura following the list of candidates announced by All India Congress Committee (AICC) for the February 14 Assembly elections in the state. The AICC announced the list of 48 candidates for the 60-member Assembly election besides allocating eleven seats for contest to their longtime ally Indigenous Nationalist [...]

Over 46,000 ‘fake voters’ scrapped from list in Tripura

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 11:26 AM PST

Agartala, Jan 12:Over 46,000 names were deleted from the electoral rolls during their revision for the Tripura assembly polls scheduled for February 14, said state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ashutosh Jindal while speaking to the media at the civil secretariat. According to one source, names of 700-800 voters on an average were scrapped from the [...]

‘Piling home work’ constrains extended break for Swu, Muivah

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 11:20 AM PST

Dimapur, January 12 2013 : The Christmas vacation of NSCN-IM chairman Isak Chisi Swu and the outfit’s general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah in Nagaland has been extended indefinitely owing to the mounting ‘home works’ . Well placed sources said both Mr Swu and Mr Muivah were to leave for New Delhi today but as the ‘unexpected home [...]

Sikkim to host international flower show next month

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 11:18 AM PST

Sikkim is hosting an international flower fair next month where more than 15,000 species of flowers from Himalayan region will be displayed for business community and flowers lovers. Flower growers from Australia, New Zealand, Holland, the US, Taiwan, Nepal and Thailand along with farmers from Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi [...]

Earthquake hits India’s northeast

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 11:17 AM PST

An earthquake of moderate intensity jolted India’s northeast Wednesday morning. Officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property. The quake measured 5.9 on the Richter scale and was felt at 7.11 a.m. According to the Regional Seismological Centre here, the epicentre lay in the India-Myanmar border. Besides Meghalaya and Nagaland, [...]

Eight talented and beautiful femmes from the northeast were selected for the Pond’s Femina Miss India Kolkata 2013 finale

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 11:14 AM PST

GUWAHATI: Eight talented and beautiful femmes from the northeast were selected for the Pond’s Femina Miss India Kolkata 2013 finale from auditions that were held at Hotel Gateway Grandeur in the city on Saturday. Pond’s has had a long and successful stint in beauty since its foray into India and is synonymous with beauty in India. Being [...]

Buddhists greeted by Hindus on Bodhi Day

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 10:47 AM PST

New Delhi (India), Nov 30: Hindus have sent early greetings to Buddhist communities world over on Bodhi Day, commemorating Gautama Buddha's enlightenment, which falls on December eight. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a release in New Delhi (India) today, expressed warmest greetings on Bodhi Day, wishing peace and joy to all the Buddhists. Rajan Zed, [...]

Hindus upset at Bhagavad Gita ban attempt by Tomsk, a Russian city

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:32 AM PST

Tomsk (Russia), Nov 29: Hindus are upset over reported attempts to ban their ancient scripture Bhagavad Gita in Russian city of Tomsk.  Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement today, said that Bhagavad Gita was one of the holiest scriptures of Hinduism and attempts at banning it would hurt the devotees. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of [...]
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