IMPHAL, August 12: Forest and Environment Minister Prof Gangumei Kamei released a brochure on Sangai entitled "The Sangai- A Photo profile" by freelance journalist Salam Rajesh at a simple function at Hotel Excellency today. Chief Conservator of Forest T Priyobrata presided over the function. The brochure contains four photo profiles of Sangai, the most threatened deer species. Slides of Sangai profiles taken by Salam Rajesh from Keibul Lamjao wildlife sanctuary and Sangai captive breeding centre at Meitei Langol were also displayed. Rajesh, who is also a photography enthusiast explained to...

TURA, August 10: The Tura campus of the Northeastern Hill University (NEHU), even after years of its establishment, continues to function from the hostel of the Government Boys High School. A site selection committee for looking into the acquisition of land for the permanent campus has already selected a large area outside Tura on the National Highway. But now there is concern among the people of Garo Hills that even this selection will only be on paper as the state government is yet to pay up. The Garo Graduates' Union (GGU), an influential and intellectual group, has expressed concern over...

GUWAHATI, August 11: Despite the fact that Hindi is becoming more and more popular among the people of the region, thanks largely to television and cinema, its progress as the primary language for carrying out official works in Central Government offices, public sector undertakings (PSUs) and nationalised banks is far from satisfactory. Targets set for such establishments in the region in promoting the official language of the country are left untouched in most of them. Lack of interest and enough effort on the part of the officials entrusted with the task of implementing the official language...

GUWAHATI, August 11: In line with the Government of India's special policy for the development of north eastern region, a workshop at Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat was held recently, for preparing the strategy for assessing the environmental quality of the north eastern states including Sikkim, stated a press release. The workshop was jointly organised by the Industrial Toxicology Research Centre (ITRC) of Lucknow and RRL, Jorhat, both CSIR laboratories. Held at RRL auditorium under the name and title "Workshop on Environmental Quality related to Food, Water and Health", the workshop...

KOHIMA, August 10: The Nagaland government has constituted a committee headed by the Chief Secretary RS Pandey in order to make the administration more effective, responsive and transparent as a follow-up action of the Chief Ministers' conference, reports PTI. According to official sources here on Wednesday, the committee recently made a detailed discussions on each recommendations of the Chief Ministers' conference and issued directives to certain departments. The committee felt that "citizens' charter" is important for grievance redressal and providing provisions for independent scrutiny of...