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DIMAPUR, MAY 17– Hectic preparations are on in full swing for the Miss Northeast 2004, which is to be held at Kohima on May 19 in commemoration of its 125th year celebration. The organisers of the beauty pageant, the Beauty & Aesthetic Society of Nagaland (BASN), has, in a release, announced that a number of prominent personalities and celebrities from not only the region but also from other parts of the country would be attending the pageant in different capacities.

Prominent among them is Miss World 1999 Yukta Mookhey who is scheduled to wow the crowd as a special guest. Yukta has walked...

CHAPAR, May 17— Dipti Islam of Chapar, who has already created his own place in the tinsel world by producing and directing two video feature films Chengra Bandhurey and Sariya Najaishrey in Goalpariya dialect of the Assamese language, released his third film Mui To Pirit Korongna at ‘Bhai Bhai Talkies’, Dhantola in Bongaigaon district on May 9 last. Like the previous two films, this also has succeeded in getting a good response from the cine-goers on the inaugural day.

The story of the film, written by Islam, narrates the tragic life of a beautiful young girl who dedicated her life to...

Kohima, May 17: Nagaland PCC president S.C. Jamir has stalled the plans of chief minister Neiphiu Rio of supporting the Congress-led government at the Centre. Speaking over phone from New Delhi, former chief minister Jamir said Rio and his allies would not be allowed to join the Congress. “They are from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and were supporting the fundamentalists. How can they join the Congress?” he asked.

After the defeat of the BJP-led NDA in the general election, the Northeast People’s Forum (NEPF) with Rio as its convener has decided to chalk out a strategy for the...

AGARTALA, May 17 – Six Border Security Force men, including an assistant commandant, were killed in an ambush by insurgents of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura on Thalcherra-Gobindabari road in Tripura’s Dhalai district today. Police said that two vehicles carrying BSF men of the 22nd battalion were returning to Chhamanu from Thalcherra area of the district when the insurgents lobbed two powerful grenades at them and then pumped bullets at the vehicles around 12.30 pm, killing six people on the spot. The ultras snatched one LMG, three SLRs and two carbines. The police said the...

Kohima, May 17: Three storeys high and done up with cane and bamboo, the ramp on which the Miss North-East 2004 beauty contest will be staged here on Wednesday justifies the hype around the pageant. Fourteen aspiring models from six northeastern states will strut their stuff on the big stage, hoping to impress the judges and the two special guests, Miss World-turned-actress Yukta Mookhey and model-turned-choreographer Kelly Dorjee. Assamese actress Akashitora is another celebrity invitee.

The contestants include three each from Manipur, Nagaland and Meghalaya, two each from Mizoram and Assam...