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News: Airline sheds hostess ‘flab’ |
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| Posted on Monday, January 05, 2009 @ 23:04:48 CST |
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New Delhi, Jan. 5 (PTI): Air India has sacked 10 overweight air hostesses after they refused to take up alternative ground duties.
Airline sources said the services of the air hostesses, who were grounded by the national carrier for being overweight, were terminated for their failure to cut the kilos to acceptable standards and their refusal to take up alternative ground duties. |
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News: Delhi mulls flushout from Naga camps |
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| Posted on Monday, January 05, 2009 @ 22:51:13 CST |
Big guns holed up in NSCN hideouts
 NSCN-IM cadres stand guard at a designated camp in Dimapur. A file picture
Guwahati, Jan. 5: The Centre will launch an operation to smoke out leaders and activists of Assam militant outfits holed up in Naga rebel camps in Nagaland.
Highly placed sources in the state home department today said Dispur had pointed out to Delhi that these camps had become a major source of trouble for the state as militants belonging to several outfits like Ulfa, ANLA and DHD (J) were taking refuge there under the patronage of the Naga rebels. |
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News: Now, ‘Naga chilli’ to tackle wild elephants |
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| Posted on Monday, January 05, 2009 @ 22:49:32 CST |
 SHILLONG, JAN 5 (PTI): The world’s hottest chilli, ‘Naga chilli’, or ‘bhoot jolokia’ in Assamese dialect, could be the latest weapon against marauding wild elephants that have wrecked havoc in many parts of North East.
‘Bhoot jolokia’, a chilli pepper that grows mostly in Assam, has shot to limelight after the DRDO developed a non-lethal grenade from it that could be used in anti-terrorist operations.
The DRDO and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are now working on developing the ‘chilli’ into a powder that could be coated on fences and ropes to scare away wild pachyderms. |
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News: Nagaland in a fix on pay hike |
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| Posted on Monday, January 05, 2009 @ 22:48:02 CST |
Kohima, Jan. 5: Funds-starved Nagaland is in a dilemma as the state government employees have demanded implementation of the 6th Central Pay Commission recommendations which has been accepted by the Centre and also by some other state governments.
The Confederation of All Nagaland State Services Employees Association said the Union government had already accepted the report of the 6th Pay Commission and, therefore, urged the Nagaland government to implement it. |
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News: Terror kills more in NE than in J&K |
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| Posted on Monday, January 05, 2009 @ 22:46:57 CST |
NEW DELHI, JAN 5 (AGENCIES):The serial blasts in Guwahati on New Year’s Day were a chilling reminder to the country of a forgotten but deadly war being fought in the Brahmaputra valley and the surrounding hills.
In the year just gone by, over a thousand persons were killed in terrorist related violence in the seven states of the northeast. The bulk of these deaths occurred in just two states - Assam and Manipur. Assam reported 372 fatalities while the death toll in Manipur was just shy of 500, second only to Kashmir, which recorded 539 deaths. While the country has been preoccupied with Kashmir and escalating terrorist violence elsewhere, separatist violence in northeast has crept up. Data from the South Asian Terrorism Portal (SATP) shows that the total number of deaths in this region has increased from 640 in 2006 to 1057 in 2008. |
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News: 2009 Ushers in Hope, for Naga Reconciliation |
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| Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 @ 21:21:40 CST |
Dimapur | January 4[MExN]: As the people of Nagaland step into a new year, there is renewed hope and expectation throughout, from church leaders, politicians, bureaucrats to the average citizen, everybody is anticipating a chance for a better tomorrow. After an impacting year 2008, people rest their hopes in lasting peace and development, in the state. |
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News: No rice for famine-hit Manipur villagers |
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| Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 @ 21:20:23 CST |
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IMPHAL, Jan 4 – Even though Centre has sanctioned Rs 16.67 crore for Manipur against a demand for Rs 50.02 crore, to fight the menace of rodent in the wake of bamboo flowering, over one lakh affected villagers of Churachandpur district are yet to get the relief materials due to economic blockade on NH 39. |
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News: Police probe return of bullet tankers |
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| Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 @ 21:18:25 CST |
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IMPHAL, Jan 4: As part of the investigation into the report that bullet tankers were turned allegedly turned back from a Senapati district area on January 2 by a person who claimed to be a member of the NSCN (IM), two drivers namely Manoj Rai (24) of Charhajare (MN01/7086) and Khadga Prassad (33) also of Charhajare (MN01/6968) have been remanded to police custody till January 6. |
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News: No IM tax demand : CFMG |
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| Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 @ 21:17:36 CST |
IMPHAL, Jan 4: Amid severe shortage of cooking gas (LPG) in the State owing to alleged monetary demand by the NSCN (IM), Chairman of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group (CFMG) General Mandhita has reportedly denied that the Naga rebel group had made any such demand.
According to a highly placed source here, the CFMG Chairman contacted officials concerned of the State Government and issued a clarification that officially cleared the NSCN (IM) from any involvement in levying tax of Rs 15 lakh from the Sekmai Gas (LPG) Bottling Plant as well as LPG distributors. |
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News: DRDO developing malaria cure from NE herb |
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| Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 @ 21:16:45 CST |
SHILLONG, Jan 4 – DRDO is developing an anti-malarial drug from a herb available in the North East that may be used as an alternative to normal drugs like Chloroquine.
“Six months back, we discovered the anti-malarial qualities in a herb Gommstema found exclusively in the North East,” Dr W Selvamurthy, chief controller of the DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) told reporters here today. |
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News: India to double investment in science: PM |
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| Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 @ 21:15:58 CST |
SHILLONG, JAN (IANS):While announcing a doubling of the investment in science from one to two percent of the national income, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday urged the Indian industry to invest in research and development aimed at boosting science and technology so that young minds are attracted to seeking a career in science.
"We need a new wave of investment from the private sector so that young people will be encouraged to seek a career in science," the prime minister said while inaugurating the 96th Indian Science Congress at the Northeastern Hill University here. |
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News: Kalam cancels visit to Children's Science Congress |
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| Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 @ 20:58:35 CST |
SHILLONG, Jan 4:Former President APJ Abdul Kalam's scheduled visit to Meghalaya to inaugurate the Children's Science Congress has been cancelled due to his ill-health.
''Dr Kalam will not inaugurate the Children's Science Congress due to his ill-health,'' NEHU's vice-chancellor Professor Pramod Tandon said. |
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News: The other side of Nagaland’s “unemployment” |
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| Posted on Saturday, January 03, 2009 @ 21:30:13 CST |
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Dimapur,January 04[MExN]: As the chronic unemployment problem continues to deepen in Nagaland, the labour class comprising mostly of people from states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and of course, the lakhs of illegal immigrants mostly from Bangladesh, are unassumingly draining out crores of rupees from the state to their homelands. |
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News: Now Meghalaya charges Assam of encroachment |
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| Posted on Saturday, January 03, 2009 @ 21:23:33 CST |
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Shillong : Meghalaya has apprised Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh over Assam’s alleged encroachment into the territory of the former, today in Shillong. Meghalaya’s latest push assumes significance in view of similar complaints against Assam by Nagaland, Arunachal and Mizoram that Assam has gone an extra yard in claiming areas under dispute. |
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News: NE boy threatened in rape case |
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| Posted on Saturday, January 03, 2009 @ 21:22:03 CST |
An Assamese boy who helped in reporting the rape case of Assamese girl in Gurgaon on December 30 last is reportedly under threat from a gang of the rapists.
According to a press release issued by the North East Support Centre & Helpline (NESC&H) New Delhi, Spokesperson, Madhu Chandra, the boy, a momo supplier by profession who reported the rape case to the NESC&H was abducted by a gang on the evening of January 1 and taken to the same house where the alleged rape took place. He was later released with dire consequences if he failed to bring the victim and withdraw the case against the rapists by next day. |
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