"Sinlung" - 7 new articles
Sri Lanka troops enter rebel Tiger Political HQHeadquarter of LTTE in Kilinochchi see more Is there a peace in sight in Sri Lanka?. It looks imminent with the recent successes of Sri Lankan government forces. With the beginning of new year Sri Lankan Army has gained a major area of Kilinochchi, considered as the Political Hqs of the rebel Tamil Tigers. The Tigers have [...] Manipur NGO Seeks To Cure Drug Addicts Through YogaImphal , Jan 2 : A Manipur-based NGO has embarked upon curing drug addicts in the state by training them in various yoga practices apart from the normal treatment through medicines. The Integrated Women and Children Development Centre recently organised a 15-day treatment programme during which the drug addicts were made to practise different forms of [...]       Outsiders Find a Home In PuneBy Siddharth Kelkar Pune, Jan 2 : Here's something to take the sting out of Raj Thackeray's anti-outsider campaign: an NGO run by Maharashtrians, My Home India, is the closest to home for students who come to Maharashtra from the Northeast. Sunil Deodhar, who had worked in Meghalaya for eight years and is the founder of the [...]       New Year Bonanza for Assam Social Sector Gogoi announces Rs 500-crore package, hikes interim pay relief of employees to 25 per cent Tarun Gogoi addresses mediapersons on Thursday. Picture by Eastern Projections Guwahati, Jan 2 : Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today unveiled a Rs 500-crore package to boost the state's social sector and hiked the interim pay relief to 25 per cent [...] Kuber-Type Cash Rich Film -CHANDAN SARMAH A still from Dhan Kuberor Dhan At a time when veterans in the Assamese film industry are at a loss to conjure up a dream formula to revive commercial cinema, Dhiraj Kashyap, a relative greenhorn in the field, with just one feature film to his credit, has hit bull's eye. Kashyap's second feature film, [...] Plan To Improve Weavers' Plight in Assam Better feel of trade: A woman checks out a saree at a handloom fair Sivasagar, Jan 2 : Impoverished weavers of Sivasagar who were forced to swallow bad deals in fluctuating local markets will soon mix business expertise in spools of thread to churn a handloom success that the government has been planning for them [...] Development, But For Whom? Play -NONGTHOMBAM JITEN A scene from Ningtamningliba Ichel On the eve of New Year 2009, Manipuri theatre created a new paradigm with the fresh adaptation and interpretation of Rabindra Nath Tagore's Muktadhara. The adaptation, Ningtamningliba Ichel (Longing for Freedom), was presented by Banian Repertory Theatre, Imphal, on the stage of Manipur Dramatic Union during the [...] |
