tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51031296717319126182024-03-18T13:15:07.021+05:30Sinlung< Northeast India >Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9090125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-87112991441088421262022-04-08T09:02:00.000+05:302022-04-08T09:02:01.328+05:30Enrolment in govt schools significantly rose post pandemic: Mizoram education ministerMizoram State Education Minister
Lalchhandama Ralte said in a meeting that enrollment in Mizoram
government schools increased significantly after the pandemic. Mizoram State Education Minister Lalchhandama Ralte, said on Tuesday,
that the student enrollment in state government schools increased
‘significantly’ as educational institutes began reopening after they
were shut because of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-27840048896915811532022-04-08T08:57:00.002+05:302022-04-08T08:57:06.643+05:30Manipur town bordering Myanmar emerges smuggling hotspot By Iboyaima LaithangbamState has become a conduit for contraband goods including sophisticated weaponsPolice commandos led by SP Shrey Vats on Thursday arrested a van driver and seized 18 bars of gold, believed to have been smuggled in from Myanmar. The arrest took place at the Pallel police station in Kakching district. The gold bars weighed 166 gm each.The driver, identified as Prakash Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-25852752080981071702022-04-08T08:07:00.002+05:302022-04-08T08:07:22.405+05:30Surge in VC Exits At StartupsVenture capital fund exits in Indian startups surged in 2021, says a report. Here’s why.Venture capital fund exits in Indian startups grew over ten-fold to surge past $14 billion in 2021 over the previous year, a recent report by Bain & Company in collaboration with Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association finds. This was across secondary transactions and initial public offerings (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-15529442454031224862022-04-04T11:21:00.006+05:302022-04-04T11:21:44.034+05:30Manipur Girl Babysits Brother in ClassManipuri girl attends class with little sister in her lapIt's no secret that children are full of empathy and compassion. Sometimes, they are also capable of assuming the role of a babysitter or a caretaker for someone younger than them.Be it consoling or babysitting, the art of caring comes naturally to some children. Not so long ago, a heartwarming video from Arunachal Pradesh a little girl Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-80832453458567825692022-04-01T11:29:00.004+05:302022-04-01T11:29:59.912+05:30Phangnon Konyak is Nagaland's first woman Rajya Sabha MPKohima, Apr 1 : S Phangnon Konyak was on Thursday elected unopposed as the Rajya Sabha member from Nagaland. With the tenure of incumbent Rajya Sabha MP from Nagaland K G Kenye ending on April 2, the election was scheduled to be held on Thursday. Returning Officer, Biennial Election to the Council of States, Khruohituonuo Rio informed that as there was only one candidate till the last date for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-41721730794129324282022-03-31T19:57:00.009+05:302022-03-31T19:57:54.004+05:30SPYAIR Vocalist IKE Leaves Band
Japanese pop rock band SPYAIR today announced that their vocalist,
IKE, has decided to leave the group, following unsuccessful treatment
for his
ulcerative colitis. IKE states that the chronic disease was first
discovered in summer 2019, and he eventually recovered, but it was found
to have relapsed in January this year.
Since SPYAIR's formation in 2005, IKE has made his Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-45511248955060036052022-03-31T19:53:00.005+05:302022-03-31T19:53:56.520+05:30Modi govt reduces areas under AFSPA in Nagaland, Manipur & AssamReduction in areas under AFSPA is a result of ‘improved security situation’, Home Minister Amit Shah says.
New Delhi: Several districts
across Nagaland, Assam and Manipur have been removed from the list of
“disturbed areas” that fall under the controversial Armed Forces
(Special Powers) Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced
Thursday.
Reduction
in areas under AFSPA was a result Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-47439270475166645582022-03-31T08:30:00.004+05:302022-03-31T08:30:43.203+05:30Aizawl To Become 4th State Capital In North East To Have Rail Connectivity Next YearA new Broad Gauge
railway line is currently under construction from Bairabi of Assam’s
Hailakandi district to Sairang of Mizoram’s Aizawl district covering 52
km.
In a recent development in the railway sector of the
northeastern region, the capital city of Mizoram, Aizawl is all set to
get railway connectivity in the upcoming year.
With this major railway project, Aizawl will become the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-44262731733867814232022-03-31T08:24:00.009+05:302022-03-31T08:24:47.855+05:30KSO hails India's 'Hungry' young striker Lynda Kom SertoKANGPOKPI, Mar 29 : The Kuki Students' Organization Imphal has extended its heartfelt congratulations to India's 'hungry' young striker Lynda Kom Serto for achieving the top scorer award and most valuable player title in the recently concluded SAFF U-18 Women's Championship 2022 at Jamshedpur.India have been crowned champions of the SAFF U-18 Women's Championship despite losing 0-1 to Bangladesh Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-2164951565698506362021-05-31T18:06:00.007+05:302021-05-31T18:06:55.974+05:30A Chinese Billionaire Dies Every 40 DaysUnnatural deaths have taken the lives of 72 mainland billionaires over the past 8 years...15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, 7 died from accidents and 19 from illness. 14 were executed. (Welcome to China.)"By Ray Kwong
Apparently, one Chinese billionaire dies every 40 days: enjoy it while you can.
UPDATE: Chinese nationals aren't the only ones getting in on the China action,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-54354335639172582252021-05-31T18:03:00.005+05:302021-05-31T18:03:53.111+05:30Hmar Inpui Condoles Demise of Hmangkhum Joute Late Hmangkhum Joute
Hmangkhum Joute was the first president of the Hmar Inpui and held that responsibility for two terms.
TFM Desk
Hmar Inpui, Kuki Inpi Manipur and former MP Mani Charenamei condoled the demise of Hmangkhum Joute (82).
Hmangkhum Joute, the first president of the Hmar Inpui and who held
that responsibility for two Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-15300853920754076012021-05-31T18:01:00.008+05:302021-05-31T18:01:48.936+05:30In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homesBy MARK STEVENSONFILE
- In this Feb. 10, 2020 file photo, a policeman drives past town hall
in Apaseo El Alto, Guanajuato state, Mexico. The notoriously violent
Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico's “hugs, not bullets” policy with
a policy of their own: the cartel kidnapped in mid-May 2021, several
members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured
them to obtain namesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-4273266843631103292021-05-13T08:52:00.003+05:302021-05-13T08:53:24.169+05:30Unemployed Doctors Come Forward To Fight Covid In Mizoram
Aizawl: In a generous gesture, over 400 unemployed
doctors, nursing students, laboratory technicians and pharmacists in
Mizoram have voluntarily agreed to assist the government in Covid
management, health officials said on Wednesday.
A health official said that responding to the state government’s
appeal, 412 unemployed doctors, nursing students and laboratory
technicians willingly Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-48018289415169058602021-05-13T08:49:00.002+05:302021-05-13T08:49:10.223+05:30Nagaland Goes For Total Lockdown, More Curbs In Other NE StatesGuwahati/Kohima/Agartala: The Nagaland government
has clamped total lockdown across the state for eight days while Assam
and the other six northeastern states extended the timings of curfew and
imposed other restrictions to curb the alarming spread of Covid,
officials said on Wednesday.
Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh
have shown continued increasing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-25418755795650977962021-05-13T08:47:00.003+05:302021-05-13T08:47:22.109+05:30'Champions League of tax avoidance:' Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on nearly $6 billion in revenue Riccardo Savi/Getty ImagesUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
Uber used around 50 Dutch shell companies to help reduce its global tax burden, an Australian research group found.
Despite earning $5.8 billion in global revenues in 2019, Uber claimed a $4.5 billion loss for tax purposes.
One researcher called Uber’s alleged scheme “the Champions League of tax avoidance.”
See more stories on Insider’sUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-53111158698433180642021-05-04T09:08:00.008+05:302021-05-04T09:10:01.467+05:30Mizoram: Eight-day lockdown imposed in Aizawl, other district headquartersA health worker collects a swab sample
The lockdown would come into force at 4 am on Monday (3 May) and would remain in force till 4 am of 11 MayThere is no restriction in terms of opening of shops and other economic activities in other parts of the state
Amid an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases, the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-5798765324300872392021-05-04T09:04:00.009+05:302021-05-04T09:04:48.341+05:30Manipur HC orders safe passage to seven Myanmar nationals to approach UNHCR“They
fled the country of their origin under imminent threat to their lives
and liberty. In such a situation, insisting that they first answer for
admitted violations of our domestic laws...would be palpably inhuman,”
the bench observed.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-26445975525261727702021-05-04T08:57:00.007+05:302021-05-04T08:57:45.451+05:30Modi wants NGOs to help fight Covid-19. But their hands are tied by rules his government introducedThe law that regulates foreign contributions to the non-profit sector was amended in the middle of the pandemic.
By Sruthisagar Yamunan
A women receives oxygen support through a cylinder arranged by the Hemkunt Foundation.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-49476881898256150942021-04-29T09:19:00.002+05:302021-04-29T09:19:13.918+05:30Mizoram plans to become ‘Har Ghar Jal’ State by 2022-23
NEW
DELHI: The State of Mizoram presented their Jal Jeevan Mission Annual
Action Plan via video conference with details of the saturation plan for
the financial year 2021-22, thereby ensuring that every rural household
in the State gets tap water connection. Working along with the mission
objective ‘HarGharJal’, Mizoram proposes 100% tap connections in rural
homes of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-77113720831954848462021-04-29T09:16:00.002+05:302021-04-29T09:16:06.421+05:30Tripura DM apologises for disrupting wedding ceremony that continued into curfew hoursIn
a video that went viral on social media, the District Magistrate was
seen stopping a wedding ceremony at Manikya Court, a marriage hall at
North Gate of the Palace Compound, supposedly after the 10 pm cutoff
time for Covid-19 night curfew to come into force in the Agartala
Municipal Council (AMC) areas.By Debraj DebTripura
West District Magistrate (DM) Dr Shailesh Kumar Yadav ordersUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-69607481103126623542021-04-29T09:13:00.006+05:302021-04-29T09:14:21.163+05:30Meghalaya COVID-19: No gatherings; institutes, pvt offices to remain shut from May 1 in Shillong, 2 more townsDuring
the 10-day period, all political, public and religious gatherings and
sporting activities will be banned in Shillong, Jowai and Tura.
COVID-19 vaccination (Representational photo) | Photo Credit: AP
Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma
on Wednesday said the state Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-26488876620487616832021-04-29T09:12:00.005+05:302021-04-29T09:12:24.743+05:30 Nagaland: Partial lockdown from April 30. What is allowed, what's notPeople wear face masks and stand in front of a shop in Kohima
Nagaland on Tuesday reported 207 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day spike in the year so far
Kohima: Amid, the surge in Covid cases across the country, Nagaland
cabinet Tuesday decided to impose partial lockdown with stricter rules
in the state from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-7275171766174632052021-04-29T08:38:00.008+05:302021-04-29T08:38:37.403+05:30Myanmar Guerrillas Capture Gov’t Base; Airstrikes FollowBy GRANT PECKIn
this image made from video by the Transborder News, smoke rises from a
Myanmar Army camp near the border of Myanmar and Thailand Tuesday, April
27, 2021. Ethnic Karen guerrillas said they captured a Myanmar army
base Tuesday in what represents a morale-boosting action for those
opposing the military's takeover of the country's civilian government in
February. (Transborder Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-57562490687462830212021-04-29T08:36:00.003+05:302021-04-29T08:37:33.492+05:30Sri Lanka cabinet approves proposed ban on burqas in public Citing
national security concerns, the Buddhist-majority island nation’s
cabinet clears proposal to ban full-face veils in public.A burqa-clad Sri Lankan Muslim woman in the capital, Colombo [File: Eranga Jayawardena/AP]Sri
Lanka’s cabinet has approved a proposed ban on wearing full-face veils
including Muslim burqas in public, citing national security grounds,
despite a United NationsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103129671731912618.post-67137360209810330532021-04-29T08:34:00.002+05:302021-04-29T08:34:59.493+05:30Chinese Smart TV-Maker Accused of Spying on Owners' Other Devices
Skyworth chief executive
Tony Wang unveils premium 8K TV models at the Consumer Electronics Show
during the CES Unveiled event at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 5, 2020.
A China-based manufacturer of smart televisions has been
accused of spying on its users by scanning their homes for other devices
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