New Delhi, June 23: A campaign is under way to save the Northeast’s hoary past for the future. The National Mission for Manuscripts has launched a comprehensive search for priceless manuscripts containing little-known nuggets from the region’s history. These documents will be preserved for posterity in a scientific manner and made available to researchers.

Set up last year under the Union culture ministry, the mission intends to first preserve and then catalogue valuable historical documents that could be lying in temples, libraries and museums.

The importance of the project stems from the...

Guwahati, June 23: The state government has agreed to the formation of three new wildlife sanctuaries to bring more forest areas under government protection. The decision has been taken despite the fact that the government is facing funds and manpower shortage. Addressing a press conference today, forest minister Pradyut Bordoloi said the government has issued final notification to three new wildlife sanctuaries — Amsang, Barail and Dihing Patkai. The total area under the three sanctuaries is 516 square km.

“All the demands of NGOs for creating wildlife sanctuaries cannot be met and many...

SHILLONG, June 23 – Meghalaya Assembly Wednesday elected unopposed senior Congress member Phing Well Muktieh as its Deputy Speaker, a post lying vacant since elections in the State during early 2003, reports PTI.

Muktieh, the Soil Conservation minister, representing Mawhati (ST) constituency, was declared elected by Speaker Martin M Danggo in the assembly.

Danggo said only Muktieh's nomination, proposed by Congress member Charles Pyngrope and seconded by United Democratic Party leader and Deputy Chief Minister Donkupar Roy was received by his office yesterday.

“The nomination paper was...

MARIANI, June 23 – Its ‘zooish’ all around the region, with the creatures of the jungle ranging from monkeys, leopards, pythons and off course the elephant tramping all round the place and terrorizing the inhabitants. The simians had been a constant source of nuisance to the inhabitants of Dholi Sonari, Borara, Handique gaon, Bukahola, Bajalbari etc of Titabor since about 10 years. Apart from spoiling the paddy fields and vegetable gardens, they pester people inside godowns and houses. “These monkeys even switch on the lights to feast on the kitchen items” explaimed a victim.

Hundreds of...

GUWAHATI, June 23 – The atmosphere in Kamakhya wears a festive look as pilgrims continue to throng the hilly locale anticipating the opening of the temple doors, which closed on June 22. Till today about two lakh, twenty thousand pilgrims have visited the temple town, even though the doors would open for pilgrims only on Friday morning. The nibritti, however will take place some hours before the pilgrims are allowed inside the temple. This year visitors have come in from several foreign countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and USA. A sizeable number of...