Society / Northeast

GUWAHATI, February 28: A seminar on 'Politics and Reorganisation of Northeast India' was held recently at Diphu Government College under the auspices of the university Grants Commission. It was organised by the Department of Political Science of which BC Bhuyan, Head of the Department, was the chief co-ordinator. It was inaugurated by professor Anuradha Dutta of Gauhati University on February 1. In her inaugural speech, Dutta remarked that the Northeast was going through a process of turmoil and attributed the crisis to the Constitutional machinery. She pointed out that neglect by the Centre...

SHILLONG, February 28: Rituals and traditional crafts of Northeast India urged highlighted in a three-day exhibition which concluded here on Wednesday at the State Central Library complex. The exhibition, organised by the Anthropological Survey of India, as part of the celebration of 50 years of India's Republic Day, focussed on the socio-cultural traditions of the numerous tribal and ethnic groups dotting the region. On show were fine pottery work developed in the region, without the usual pottery wheel. The exhibits included a tea pot, a recepticle, varieties of pots - all made of clay. The...

IMPHAL, February 21: To cope with the rising problems of accommodation faced by the students of north eastern region, the Northeastern Council, NEC, the apex body working for the development of the region has taken up the task of constructing two hostels, one for boys and another for girls at Delhi University. The 100-capacity hostels being constructed under the promotion of technical education sector of the Northeastern Council will be inaugurated soon, an official release stated today. Mentioning that the Council is also taking up development task successfully in other sectors, the release...

AGARTALA, February 17: The third Northeast Tribal Youth Festival began here on Friday amid colourful functions to revive the tribals' traditional life and culture in the eight Northeastern States, including Sikkim, reports UNI. Tripura Governor Lt General (retd) KM Seth inaugurated the three-day festival at the Umakanta Academy mini stadium. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, Information and Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Jitendra Chowdhury and Co-operative Minister Niranjan Debbarma were present at the inaugural function. Sarkar in his address said Northeast was an important part of the country...

DELHI, August 1: The Manipur government has moved the Supreme Court detailing the differences between Bishnupriyas and Manipuris over the recognition of Bishnupriyas as Other Backward Classes (OBCs) by the states of Assam and Tripura. The Manipur government has challenged the decision of the Guwahati High Court to include Bishnupriya Manipuris in the State list of OBCs saying the court has given the direction without going into the question whether such a community existed at all. The petitioner said the decision of the states of Assam and Tripura allowing prefixing or suffixing of the word...

KOHIMA, July 17: He's too told to walk five miles, up and down the mountain, so he stays at home. And the villagers come down, 85-year-old Pfulhousa can't believe it. They tell him stories of the funeral of his grandson Lt Neikezhakuo Kengrurusie, how thousands were there, including 29 Assam Rifles officers, all the way from Dimapur airport to Kohima and then to the family burial place at Pheza. His grandson dies hero in faraway Kargil. Nagaland hasn't seen anything like this since the death of its legendary leader Phizo in 1989....

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New Delhi, July 15: As the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to spread throughout India, the states of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Manipur together account for about three-fourth of the total AIDS cases in the country. Among the 7,475 AIDS cases reported in India in the last 13 years, Maharashtra has recorded 3,371 while 2,278 cases were reported from Tamil Nadu. During the same period, Manipur recorded 301 cases, according to the latest statistics available with the National Aids Control Organisation.

Guwahati, July 11: The Centre will soon take special measures to market tourism potentiality of the northeastern region abroad to attract foreign tourists, the Union minister of state for tourism Omak Apang said on Sunday. "The initiative will be taken very soon as there is tremendous potentiality in the tourism sector which is yet to be explored," he told reporters here. Efforts are already on to involve SAARC countries in the tourism promotional efforts and stress is being put on improving the communication infrastructure in the area, he said. Apang said he had visited Bhutan and discussed...