Society / Nagaland

DIMAPUR, July 2 ? Elizabeth Belho of the 66 Nagaland Girls (I) Coy NCC, Kohima, has become the first Naga lady paratrooper. Indian Air Force (Paratrooper Training School, Agra) has awarded her a certificate to this effect. Elizabeth has successfully completed a month-long Advanced Mountaineering Course from the Darjeeling based Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. Securing the ?All Round First Rope? 2nd position in the cross-country on successful completion of training of rock climbing, glacier training (snow craft), she was also awarded the ?Advance badge,? according to the NCC sources. She...

DIMAPUR, June 17 ? Nagaland governor Shyamal Datta on last Sunday during his visit to the ruins of the Kachari Rajbari, situated on the banks of river Dhansiri here assured all possible help to the Kachari Rajbari Preservation Committee. The Monument at Dimapur was once the throne of the Dimasa dynasty. In fact, ?Dimapur? means ?a big water- human settlement? in the Dimasa dialect.

Governor Datta accompanied by his wife Ishani Datta went around the whole site, which was recently adopted by the Archaeological Survey of India, and appreciated the remnants of the architecture but also expressed...

KOHIMA, June 7 ? The Vice-Chancellor of Nagaland University Prof GD Sharma has urged the ?Visitor? of the university and President of India KR Narayanan to relieve him from the post with immediate effect, reports PTI. In a letter to the President, who holds the post of honorary Visitor of the university, Sharma Monday requested him to take note of his last August?s letter relinquishing the post in the wake of mounting pressures from teachers and the student community for his resignation. While requesting the university ?Visitor? to kindly accept his decision ?to relinquish the VC?s post with...

KOHIMA, May 2 ? In the face of stiff opposition from certain NGOs and teachers, Nagaland University today clarified that the ?Naga genome project? aims at determining the genetic diversity within Naga tribes and the study has been carried out as per norms of the Varsity Act, reports PTI.

The MoU signed between the Zoology department of the University and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) for a project on Naga genetic diversity had been approved by the Registrar, a university release said. The MoU signed between CCMB director, Dr Lalji Singh, and head of Zoology deportment...

DIMAPUR, April 29 ? In yet another case of utilizing the oil tankers as the safe carriers to smuggle the contraband ganja, cultivated in Manipur or smuggled from the neighbouring country Myanmar--the biggest producer of the contraband in the region-- to the most potential markets in the mainland states of India, personnel of Kohima North P S seized 2835 kgs of the contraband ganja smartly concealed inside oil chambers of the tanker. Police personnel manning the check gate near the BSF camp, Kohima arrested two persons?Thampal Sinha and Robin Singh both from Samaram village under Thoubal...

KOHIMA, April 23? The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NACC) is in the process of preparation of an action plan for each States of North-east for performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation of higher education institutions, reports PTI. Prof VN Rajshekharan Pillai, director of NACC which is an autonomous institution under University Grants Commission, on Thursday said that NAAC has conducted seminars at different states in the past 10 months to prepare state-wise as well as a national action plan with an objective to promote awareness of quality assurance in higher...

KOHIMA, April 30: As part of its annual tourism calendar, Nagaland tourism department is organising the Moatsu festival, the largest traditional festival of the Ao tribe, at Mokokchung's district's Chuchuyimlang village from May 1, reports PTI. Aimed to attract tourists and promote tourism activities, the three-day festival, jointly organised by the tourism department and the Chuchuyimlang village authorities, will showcase the Ao cultural heritage. Moatsu is celebrated by the Aos to signify the end of planting season while invoking the blessings of the almighty for an abundant harvest...

KOHIMA, March 31: The provisional figures of the 2001 census reveal that immigrant settlers from Assam and Tripura have swamped the hill states of the Northeast. The figures released here today showed that, except for Assam and Tripura, population growth in the remaining five states of the region was much higher that the national growth rate of 21.34 per cent during 1991-2001. Nagaland, like in the last census, emerged as the state with highest population growth rate in the country recording 64.41 per cent. Census officials said it was difficult to ascertain whether the migrants were legal...

KOHIMA, March 31: Nagaland has recorded the highest decadal growth of population during 1991-2001 in the country, the provisional census figures released here on Saturday revealed, reports PTI. The provisional census figures of Nagaland with districtwise break-ups, including literacy rate and sex ratio were formally released here this morning by Chief Minister SC Jamir at a simple function at his official residence. The total population in Nagaland increased from 12,09,546 in 1991 to 19,88,636 in March 2001, recording the decadal growth at 64.41 per cent against the national average growth...

NEW DELHI, March 25: The social workers and NGOs in Nagaland have pressed the alarms bells following unabated smuggling of brown sugar from Assam into the State. The revelation was made by a prominent social worker Kumini Kathpiri, Project Deputy Director, State AIDS Control Society of Nagaland, who said that the number of drug users in the State has shown an increasing trend following easy availability of made to order drugs. She later told this newspaper that reports of smuggling of brown sugar from Assam to the State first came in about three years ago. Kathipri said it has been found that...