Society / Northeast

GUWAHATI, March 20 ? National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an autonomous body of the UGC and Government of India, has so far accredited only four institutions of higher education in the north eastern region out of the total 250 universities and colleges certified by it till date. Professor V Rajasekharan Pillai, the Director of NAAC, today informed that another lot of 1025 universities and colleges in the country were in the process of being accredited shortly.

The four institutions from the N-E which have been certified by NAAC are : Gauhati University; Science College...

GUWAHATI, March 14?Three premier organisations connected with Buddhist and tribal people of North East India have moved the Centre to ?name and designate? the international flights of Air India on the Guwahati-Bangkok via Kolkata sector as ?Moung Dun Sun Kham? international flights, stated a release. Lauding the Centre for operation of the flights between Guwahati and Bangkok from April this year, the organisations stated that such step would give due importance to medieval relationship between Assam, Myanmar and Siam Thailand. Referring to the Centre?s ?Look Eastward? policy and the flight...

GUWAHATI, March 12? Historians have neglected Assam, but history has not. Everybody knows about the Indus Valley Civilisation and the Gangetic civilisation, but the Brahmaputra Valley civilisation has hardly any mention in history books. Exhorting the historians of the country to project Assam and the North-east in the national perspective in terms of history, Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha today said historians should be free from prejudice, passion and partiality. Inaugurating the national seminar on ?Sources of history of North-East India? organised by the Indian Council of Historical...

GUWAHATI, Jan 16 — Technical education is to be upgraded and expanded in six north-eastern states ie Aruanchal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura besides Jammu & Kashmir and the union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This is being done at a cost of Rs. 329 crore and would be completed in five and a half years. This was disclosed by the Education Secretary Sri BK Chaturvedi while addressing a meeting of chief secretaries of these states here. He said, polytechnics in the region will be revamped to meet the requirements of the region especially the changed needs...

GUWAHATI, Jan 13 — The progress of the implementation of North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) was reviewed in a meeting held under the chairmanship of the Union Minister of Health and FW, Dr C P Thakur at Guwahati yesterday. Addressing the review meeting, Dr Thakur said that NEIGRIHMS will be commissioned in May 2005. While expressing his satisfaction over the works completed so far, he urged upon the concerned authorities of the project to speed up works in order to complete the same within the stipulated time. The NEIGRIHMS, established in...

GUWAHATI, Dec 12 – Technical education is to be upgraded and expanded in six North-eastern states-Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura besides Jammu & Kashmir and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, stated a PIB release. This is being done at a cost of Rs 329 crore and would be completed in five and a half years. This was disclosed by the Education Secretary Sri BK Chaturvedi while addressing a meeting of Chief Secretaries of these States in New Delhi on Friday. He said, Polytechnics in the region will be revamped to meet the requirements of the...

GUWAHATI, Jan 10 — The Union Health Minister, Dr CP Thakur today raised alarm over falling sex ratio in the age group of 0-6 years in N-E States of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Meghalaya. Addressing the meeting of Health Ministers and MPs of N-E States here today, Dr Thakur called for strict enforcement of the PNDT Act which prohibits sex determination tests. He stated that State health authorities of the region must follow the Supreme court guidelines in this regard and appoint appropriate authorities to prevent carrying out sex determination tests in district and sub...

AGARTALA, April 1 (UNI): The backward most Northeastern states are lagging far behind in many aspects from the rest of the country, but the eight sister states are far ahead of their big brothers in literacy race. According to provisional report of census 2001, on an average 68.76 percent of the total of 3,90,35,582 people of the eight Northeastern states, including Sikkim are literate. The rate is 3.38 percent more than, the national literacy rate of 65.38 percent. The hill state of Mizoram, which remained in the second position of literacy race in the country after Kerala, is at the head...

NEW DELHI, March 25: Discrepancy in National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) data on HIV and AIDS patients has landed the Northeastern States and the non governmental organisations (NGOs) in an embarrassing position, with experts questioning the estimates that the region has the highest HIV incidence in the country. That the ongoing controversy over the NACO's figures is likely to only turn bitter in coming days was evident from the heated exchanges between the AIDS workers from the region and experts at a seminar on "Reality and Myth: HIV-AIDS in Northeast India." The seminar organised by...

NEW DELHI, March 7: The increased flow of synthetic drugs via the traditional heroin routes from Burma to India might soon snowball into a major problem for authorities in India. A seven-time increase in the seizure of the widely abused synthetic drug "ephedrine", and that too within a year, at the Indo-Burma border has sounded the alarm bells. It has also made the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) to issue a warning to authorities in New Delhi about the proportions the problem was assuming. The total amount of "ephedrine" seized at the largely porous border between these two...