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  1. Armed Groups to Blame for Most Violations: Report
  2. Package for North Eastern Region
  3. A Church and Christian Home Dismantled in Manipur
  4. Where Does My Information Come From?
  5. Jailed ULFA Chief Wants UN Asylum
  6. White Lion Concert at Dimapur, Nagaland
  7. Federation Cup: Dempo Through To The Final
  8. Surveillance stepped up as bird flu grips Assam, Bengal
  9. Ex-MLA slapped Rs 1.45 lakh bill for overstaying
  10. Manipuri women allege sexual assault, police apathy
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Armed Groups to Blame for Most Violations: Report

By Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati, Dec 19 : Armed groups, including the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), were responsible for a large number of cases of human rights violations, including those of torture, killings and abductions during 2007. An Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) report said the armed groups had in fact caused more [...]








Package for North Eastern Region

Consequent upon North East Business Summit held on 16-17th September 2008 at Guwahati which was attended by Chief Ministers of Assam, Sikkim and Mizoram and ministers from North Eastern States. Entrepreneurs and Ambassadors from ASEAN countries, Ambassador of Czech-Republic, Arab League of States, Bhutan and delegation from Bangladesh, Head of Missions of several countries and their [...]








A Church and Christian Home Dismantled in Manipur

A church building was dismantled in the heart of Imphal city of Manipur in North East India. The Village Council Ordered Unconstitutional Notice to Christian minorities living amongst Tribal community not to practice their faith. The Church Pastor, his wife and children were beaten and their house was dismantled. As reported to All India Christian Council [...]







Where Does My Information Come From?

By Joel Block Readers of this column frequently write in and ask where my information and insights come from. I review a lot of news articles and a lot of information. I've been around the block a few times and I have many friends who are deep in the money business and who give me insights [...]


Jailed ULFA Chief Wants UN Asylum

By K Anurag Guwahati, Dec 19 : United Liberation Front of Asom chief Golap Barua alias Anup Chetia has moved the United Nations for refugee status and political asylum in a safe country in the event of his release from a Bangladesh jail. The Indian government wants his to be extradited. The ULFA mouthpiece Swadhinata in its latest [...]


White Lion Concert at Dimapur, Nagaland

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Federation Cup: Dempo Through To The Final

Dempo SC have made their way into the 30th Federation Cup finals by beating Churchill Brothers SC 2-0 at the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata in the first semi-finals. Dempo SC 2-0 Churchill Brothers SC. They shall now face the winner of the second semi-final between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan on the 21st of this month. [...]


Surveillance stepped up as bird flu grips Assam, Bengal

New Delhi, Dec 19 : With avian flu breaking out in West Bengal and Assam, the central government has stepped up surveillance to contain the spread of the deadly H5N1 virus in surrounding areas.The deadly virus has spread across six Assam districts, where the authorities say it has assumed epidemic proportions. It has reappeared for [...]


Ex-MLA slapped Rs 1.45 lakh bill for overstaying

Shillong, Dec 19 : A former Meghalaya legislator who overstayed in his official quarter has been slapped house rent and electricity bills amounting to Rs 1.45 lakh. Former Congress MLA from Umroi constituency Standly Wiss Rymbai will have to pay house rent and electricity bill for his continued stay in a Type-II quarter of Meghalaya State [...]


Manipuri women allege sexual assault, police apathy

New Delhi, Dec 19 : They didn't conceal their faces or refuse to come in front of the camera. But for the two young northeastern women who were allegedly sexually harassed and beaten up by their landlord in their rented apartment in Gurgaon, it was difficult to recount the horrors of that night without choking [...]