New Delhi, July 9: The World Bank has evinced interest in financing development schemes in Meghalaya. High-ranking officials from the bank are scheduled to visit the hill state in August for obtaining first-hand experience. "There is a possibility of the World Bank providing funds for development schemes. World Bank country director Michael Carter is likely to visit the state in August,? Meghalaya chief minister D.D. Lapang told mediapersons here today.

He indicated that tourism, health, power, mining and organic food sectors could be the ones where investments may flow in.

Carter, who...

Guwahati, July 9: ?Let us bring our heroes back,? she says, and you instinctively start believing in her mission. Jayeeta Sharma, an assistant professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, has been researching the inspirational lives of three great historical characters for a book with which she hopes to revive interest in ?our glorious past?.

Jayeeta?s three ?heroes? are saint-reformer Srimanta Sankardev, Ahom military general Lachit Barphukan and Joymati, the Ahom princess who is acknowledged as the supreme symbol of sacrifice. ?Being a historian, I believe we should use the...

The floral diversity of the region has rarely been captured in the audio-visual media. Though a few presentations have delved into the issue, fewer have reached aesthetic excellence. The 30-minute-long film, The Wild Beauty, produced by Mukul Talukdar for Doordarshan Kendra, Guwahati, is one of the few presentations that deserves special mention.

Talukdar, also the director and scriptwriter of the film, has chosen the wonderful land of Arunachal Pradesh to shoot the beautiful orchids.

Arunachal Pradesh is a natural home of about 500 species of orchids found in various weather conditions ? from...

Guwahati, July 9: Supporters of Congress leaders representing the linguistic minorities of the Brahmaputra Valley today joined the chorus of protests over the allegedly skewed composition of the Tarun Gogoi government even as the PCC claimed there was no post-downsizing dissidence in the party.

A forum of various Bengali youth organisations picked veteran Ardhendu Dey?s omission from the new-look ministry as a reflection of the government?s alleged apathy towards linguistic minorities.

It said at least one of the three Congress legislators representing the 48 lakh-strong Bengali population of...

Kohima/Dimapur, July 9: Army units ringed the NSCN (Isak-Muivah)?s ?Camp Hebron? at Nagaland?s Intangki reserve forest, adjoining Karbi Anglong in Assam, after Delhi took cognisance of the Tarun Gogoi?s complaint about the militant group?s activities along the inter-state border.

An extra assistant commissioner of Assam, Dipankar Das, and a constable were killed by suspected NSCN (I-M) members during a campaign to evict illegal Naga settlers from Dhansiri forest of Karbi Anglong district. The incident occurred on July 1.

The NSCN (I-M) camp is across the river Dhansiri, and only a few hundred...