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AGARTALA, June 25 – The flood situation in Tripura took a turn for the worse with the death toll rising to three even as many villages were inundated, rendering thousands of people homeless, official sources said. The Assam-Agartala national highway, considered to be the lifeline of Tripura, was cut-off from rest of the country due to landslides and waterlogging at Ranirbazar in West Tripura district while Sai Radhanagar, Subhashnagar, Katakhal and Orient Chowmuhani areas remained waterlogged.

The Subdivisional Magistrate (SDM) of Sadar, Sambhu Nama said 1,500 people of 300 families were...

Imphal, June 25: Even as neighboring States like Nagaland and Meghalaya have worked out the model for the impending Ministry downsizing which will come into force from July 7, the Congress led SPF Government is still groping in the dark waiting for a nod at New Delhi from the AICC high command to the model worked out by the Steering Committee of the ruling Front. Chief Minister O Ibobi who left for New Delhi to meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get their approval to the model worked out here is yet to be granted an audience by the two most important persons...

NEW DELHI, June 25 – A high level of alcohol abuse has been reported from the North-east, in addition to high opiate use, even as the population of drug users including alcohol users countrywide has touched 75 million, a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (NDOC) survey said.

First the good news, the menace of abuse like injecting drugs is not restricted to North-Eastern States although this is common perception but fairly widespread, the national survey ‘the Extent, Pattern and Trends of Drug Abuse in India’ said. The bad news is that besides reports of high drug use, a new phenomenon...

GUWAHATI, June 24 – Though the decision to computerise and update the National Register of Citizens (NRC), 1951 was taken in a tripartite meeting on the implementation of the Assam Accord way back in 1999, even the process of computerising existing portions of the vital document has not yet been completed.

The issue of preserving and updating the NRC figured in almost all the tripartite and bipartite talks on the implementation of the Assam Accord since 1999 but the process of computerisation started only in Dhubri district and so far the State Government has not been able to start the work...

Kohima, June 24: Neitho became a junkie within a year of trying to satiate his “curiosity” and Sedevituo became addicted to the “high” of drugs as a high school junior in Kohima. Fortunately, both are out of that dark phase of their lives and have been inspired to write their stories as part of a novel anti-drugs campaign.

Initiated by Kripa Foundation, which helped the two youths and many others kick the habit, the new campaign highlights the importance of mental detoxification along with physical rehabilitation. The compilation of personal stories will be released on Saturday, which is the...