Hundreds of thousands vote in India’s fifth phase of polls
Panaji/Agartala/Gangtok/Guwahati : Hundreds of thousands cast their vote Saturday in four states in the fifth phase of elections, marking the halfway mark in India's...
Nearly 70 percent turnout in Sikkim LS, assembly polls
Gangtok: Almost 70 percent of the electorate in Sikkim Saturday voted for the lone Lok Sabha seat and the 32-member state assembly in eight...
Two-thirds voting for 2nd Tripura seat
Agartala: Two-third of the voters Saturday cast their ballots till afternoon for the second Lok Sabha seat in Left-ruled Tripura, an official said.
Around 66...
Meghalaya groups oppose Tibetan refugees enrolment as voters
Shillong : Meghalaya's powerful pressure groups - the Khasi Students' Union (KSU) and the Federation of Khasi Jaintia and Garo People (FKJGP) - Friday...
EC notice to Ajmal over statement against BJP
Guwahati : The Election Commission has served a show cause notice to AIUDF leader Maulana Badruddin Ajmal over a controversial statement he made against...
IIT, IIM MP faces challenge on Sikkim seat
Gangtok: Prem Das Rai, the only parliamentarian with IIT and IIM degrees, is facing a challenge from a newly formed outfit in Sikkim's sole...
Tripura votes for second Lok Sabha seat Saturday
Agartala: Balloting takes place Saturday for Left ruled Tripura's second Lok Sabha seat.
The state's electorate voted for the other seat Monday.
Over 1.13 million voters...
Nearly two-third voters cast ballots in Mizoram
Aizawl: Nearly two-thirds of the voters cast their ballots Friday for the lone Lok Sabha seat and in a by-poll for an assembly segment...
Probe ordered into booth capturing allegations in Manipur
Guwahati : Manipur's chief electoral officer Thursday ordered a probe into the allegations of booth capturing and rigging in some polling booths during the...
IAF chief reviews security of northeastern region
Shillong : Indian Air Force chief Arup Raha Thursday reviewed the security scenario with special reference to India's northeast with officers of the Eastern...
Final Arunachal turnout figures only by Friday evening: CEO
Itanagar : The final turnout in Arunachal Pradesh, where simultaneous elections to the mountainous, border state's two Lok Sabha seats and the state assembly...
Hope against hope for BTAD riot victims in Assam rendered homeless
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Wahidur Rahman, a petty businessman who used to deal in books has faith in democracy but he is finding it tough to live his life in the relief camps for more than a year. Wahidur who hails from remotest part of Dhubri district’s Gauripur of Assam has been stuck in relief camps along with his family members one after another.
Your dream is our dream, Modi tells Gorkhas
Siliguri : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Thursday shied away from mentioning "Gorkhaland", a separate state being demanded in northern West Bengal, but...
Tripura’s second LS seat votes Saturday
Agartala : The second Lok Sabha seat in India's lone Left-ruled state Tripura goes to the polls Saturday. The other seat voted April 7.
The...
Two-thirds of Jammu electorate vote by 3 p.m.
Jammu : Two-thirds of the electorate had exercised their franchise by 3 p.m. Thursday for the Jammu Lok Sabha seat even as queues could...
Over 69 percent turnout in Meghalaya
Shillong : Over 69 percent of Meghalaya's 15.67 lakh-strong electorate cast their votes for the two Lok Sabha seats in the mountainous northeastern state,...
Huge turnout in Lok Sabha polls in northeast India
Shillong/Itanagar/Kohima/Imphal: India's four northeastern states witnessed brisk polling in the Lok Sabha election Wednesday, with Nagaland recording 82.5 percent voter turnout and Manipur as...
66 percent vote for Meghalaya’s two LS seats
Shillong: An estimated 66 percent of voters Wednesday cast their ballots for the two Lok Sabha seats in Meghalaya as people defied a shutdown...
Voting sluggish in Arunachal
Itanagar: Balloting in simultaneous elections to Arunachal Pradesh's two Lok Sabha seats and the state assembly was sluggish in the first three hours, with...
Manipur records over 50 percent polling
Imphal:Over 50 percent voters cast their ballot till 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha constituency, as polling was held for one...
Over 60 percent polling in Nagaland till 2 p.m.
Kohima: Clear weather encouraged enthusiastic voters in Nagaland's lone Lok Sabha constituency on Wednesday, with more than 60 percent of the ballots cast till...
Elephant scare, firing near Meghalaya booths
Shillong: Voting picked up Wednesday for the two Lok Sabha seats in Meghalaya, even as the of firing of blanks was reported near a...
Arunachal votes for assembly, Lok Sabha Wednesday
Itanagar : Over 750,000 people in India's mountainous state of Arunachal Pradesh will Wednesday cast their ballot for simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha...
American based forum hires three Kashmiri young journalists for a documentary
By TCN News,
Srinagar: In the first of its significant development, three Kashmiri based young Journalists have been asked by an American based prestigious Peace and Activism Group to make a documentary entitled as ‘Peace and Hope’.
Kashmir vice chancellor’s murder accused arrested – after 24 years
Srinagar : One of the men involved in the 1990 abduction and murder of then Kashmir University Vice Chancellor Masheer-ul-Haq has been arrested here...
Major dies in accident during operation in Kashmir
Srinagar : A major of the Indian army died in a accident Monday while on a operation against separatist guerrillas in Jammu and Kashmir's...
Assam, Tripura kick off balloting with high turnout
Guwahati/Agartala/New Delhi : India went to the polls Monday, with nearly six million people casting their vote in five constituencies in Assam and one...
Nido Tania killing: Four accused’s judicial custody extended
New Delhi : A court here Monday extended, for 14 days, the judicial custody of the four people allegedly involved in Arunachal Pradesh student...
Eight millionaires in Meghalaya electoral battle
Shillong : Eight of the 10 candidates in the fray in Meghalaya's two parliamentary constituencies that go to polls Wednesday are millionaires.
The ruling Congress...
Devotees gather at Jalaluddin Auliya Dargah in Guwahati for spiritual discourse
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Over a thousand devotees, both men and women, attended the Deeni Jalsa Waz Mehfil or a spiritual discourse programme held at Dargah Hafizia Madrassa of Shah Jalaluddin Auliya at Dwaranda, Panjabari Road in Guwahati on Sunday.
Assam youth feel development can bring solution to every problem
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: When it comes to the issues for fighting elections for the political parties, it can be vary which are often politically motivated to influence the emotion of the people in various ways but what really people expect from these political parties hardly given the due importance.
No Modi wave, says Manik Sarkar
Agartala : There is no "Modi wave" in the country, Tripura Chief Minsiter and Marxist leader Manik Sarkar said Monday, referring to BJP's prime...
Not Modi but Gogoi magic will click: Gogoi
Guwahati : "Modi magic will not work here. It is Tarun Gogoi's magic that will work here," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said Monday.
He...
Over 83 percent voters cast vote in Tripura
Agartala : Over 83 percent of the 1.2 million electorate Monday cast their ballot as polling was held in one of the two Lok...
Assam records 12 percent polling in first two hours
Guwahati : People queued up at polling booths in Assam's five constituencies as balloting began in the first phase of the Lok Sabha election...
Akhil Gogoi’s move to support BJP in election faces widespeared criticism from Muslims
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: President of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti Akhil Gogoi after getting bail from 29 days police and judicial custody brought out a list of non-Congress candidate from various political parties including BJP, AIUDF, AGP and left parties and described them as potential candidate to defeat Congress. Mr. Gogoi extended his support to those candidates including the six BJP candidates and instructed its cadres to mobilise voters in favour of them.
87 file papers for April 24 LS poll in Assam
Guwahati : A total of 87 candidates have filed nomination papers for the six Lok Sabha seats in Assam that will go to the...
Voting starts Monday from northeast in India’s staggered election
New Delhi : India's general election, to elect 543 members to the 16th Lok Sabha, or the House of People in the bicameral parliament,...
A lot rides on Manik Sarkar as Tripura goes to polls
By Sujit Chakraborty,
Agartala : Tripura, the country's last red stronghold, goes to the polls Monday and a lot is riding on Chief Minister Manik...
Battle for Lok Sabha begins Monday from the northeast
Agartala/Guwahati : One constituency in Tripura and five in Assam go to polls Monday morning, marking the start of the nine-phase staggered elections to...
Three Bangladeshis beaten to death by Tripura villagers
Agartala : Indian villagers hacked to death three Bangladeshi nationals Sunday in a village on the India-Bangladesh border in western Tripura, police said.
"The three...
Six millionaires, two paupers in fray in Tripura
Agartala : Six of the 25 candidates vying for Tripura's two Lok Sabha seats are 'crorepatis' (multi-millionaires) according to the affidavits filed along with...
Museum of World War II inaugurated at Imphal
By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Imphal (1944) a war museum of the World War II was inaugurated by World War II Imphal Campaign Foundation at Imphal on April 4, 2014.
Youth groups call to boycott Mizoram polls
Aizawl/Agartala: Six NGOs and students' groups have called for a boycott of the April 9 Lok Sabha polls in Mizoram to protest the Election...
Mizoram refugee votes to be counted in Tripura
Agartala/Aizawl : In view of the reported threats from NGOs in Aizawl, the Lok Sabha postal ballots of tribal refugees of Mizoram living in...
Congress will do well in the northeast: Goa ex-CM
Shillong : Former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro Friday exuded confidence that the northeastern states would contribute more seats to the Congress kitty, and...
Tripura tops rural jobs scheme for fifth year
Agartala : Tripura maintained its top position for the fifth consecutive year by providing 87 person-days' rural jobs per household during the 2013-14 fiscal,...
Super-luxury resort in Kashmir’s Meadow of Flowers
By Sheikh Qayoom,
Gulmarg : As this world-famous resort prepares to host a record number of tourists this year, Gulmarg's only 5-star luxury property, the...
Sangma bats for smaller states
By Raymond Kharmujai,
Tura (Meghalaya) : Former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Agitok Sangma, a nine-time MP who is returning to national politics through the Lok...
Pakistani refugees in Jammu to vote for BJP
Jammu : The 100,000-strong Pakistani refugees here have announced their support to the BJP candidate in what is being seen as a crucial step...
Corporates will run India if Modi becomes PM: Gogoi
Guwahati : Launching a fresh attack against Narendra Modi, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Thursday said big corporate houses will run the government...
Sonia woos tribals in Madhya Pradesh
Sidhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday spoke about the various social security schemes launched by the UPA government, in her bid to woo the...
71 percent Mizoram refugees in Tripura cast postal ballot
Agartala/Aizawl: Around 71 percent tribal refugee voters, living in Tripura for the past 17 years after fleeing their villages in Mizoram, have voted by...
Militants kill three in Assam
Guwahati : Three people, including a woman, were killed when suspected militants fired indiscriminately Wednesday at a group of people in Assam's Kokrajhar district,...
NSUI gears up campaigning for Congress’s Lok Sabha election candidate, reaching out to the...
By TCN News,
Jammu: The state president of National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), Neeraj Kundan held a meeting in Govt. Maulana Azad Memorial Post Graduate (MAM) College, Jammu, in support of Congress-NC candidate Madan Lal Sharma, on 2nd April, Wednesday.
The Roohani Water of AIUDF chief raises many eyebrows, claiming the act to be...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Scholars and civil society of Assam have slammed the act of giving ‘roohani’ water by All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief, Badruddin Ajmal, to the people of Muslim community during election rallies, terming it as anti-religious. Casting a special chant into water carried to election rallies with the aim of using extremely poor and illiterate supporters as votes for the upcoming Lok Sabha election is against Allah, claimed Islamic scholars from the state. The supporters of AIUDF, however, see this water and the blind faith on Ajmal as a binding thread.
Maoists kill Odisha tribal
Bhubaneswar : Suspected Maoists Wednesday shot dead a tribal man in Odisha's Malkangiri district, accusing him of spying on them for the police, an...
Assam’s MY-FACTS to act as facilitator for implementation of govt. schemes
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Guwahati based organization MY-FACTS (Muslim Youth’s Forum Against Communalism, Terrorism, and Sedition) has decided on 31st March to act as facilitator for implementation of government schemes in Assam following a special meeting of the core committee at Hatigaon in the city, presided over by Tanishi Inam.
Tribal refugees in Tripura cast postal ballot for Mizoram
Agartala: Reang tribal refugees, sheltered in seven camps in Tripura for the past 17 years after fleeing from their villages in neighbouring Mizoram, Tuesday...
Congress makes false promises, Sonia let marines go: Modi
Itanagar/Guwahati : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Monday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing the party of making "false promises", and...
J & K Youth congress organizes programs in support of congress-NC candidate Madan Lal...
By TCN News,
Sundarbani (J&K): J&K Youth Congress organized several events at Nowshera & Sunderbani districts in Jammu and Kashmir in support of Congress-NC candidate for Lok Sabha elections Madan Lal Sharma on 30th March. State president of J&K Youth Congress, Shahnawaz Choudhary,and All India Election Commissioner, NSUI, Iftkhar Ahmed, were present.
Mafia running Odisha, looting state’s wealth: Rahul
Semiliguda/Nabrangpur (Odisha) : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Monday said a mafia was running the state government and looting the mineral wealth of Odisha.
"The...
Amid election heat, Sonia-Modi in war of words
Nuh/Itanagar/Guwahati : The Congress-BJP war of words escalated Monday, with Congress president Sonia Gandhi charging the BJP with indulging in "politics of hate" and...
Congress makes false promises: Modi
Itanagar : BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Monday accused the Congress of making false promises to the people.
Addressing an election rally here, Modi...
Tripura voters’ gender ratio exceeds national average
Agartala : At 963 females to 1,000 males in the electoral rolls, Tripura's gender ratio is higher than the national average of 908 and...
PDP complains to poll panel against Kashmiri minister
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday lodged a complaint with Election Commission against Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo, of the...
Rajnath flays Congress for lack of development in NE
Guwahati : BJP president Rajnath Singh Sunday charged the Congress with not doing anything to develop the northeast region.
"It is the Congress party which...
EC firm on postal voting for Mizoram refugees in Tripura
Agartala/Aizawl : Despite opposition in Mizoram against allowing tribal refugees in Tripura's relief camps to cast postal ballots, the Election Commission (EC) is firm...
Become envoys of peace and development, president tells tribal youth
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee Friday said tribal youths should become "ambassadors of peace and development" and become "active participants" in the development agenda...
Militants in fatigues attack army camp in Kashmir, shot dead
Jammu: Three militants, dressed in army uniforms, Friday attacked an army camp in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district riding a goods vehicle they hijacked at gunpoint, but were shot dead after a gunfight. A soldier and the vehicle's driver and another occupant were also killed.
Development, Environment and the Tribal of Maghuwapara
By Abdul Kalam Azad,
The history of human civilization is same as the history of change and development. The advent of renaissance and industrial revolution in seventeen century opened up the scope of change and development beyond imagination. The science and technology played a vital role in this whole journey. But history also tells us that a certain section of society always remains outside the ambit of such change and development process. This alienation is sometimes deliberate as well as forceful. We observe such alienation of tribals of northeast region of India from development process. During colonial period British Raj distinguished the tribals from the people living in the valleys. The colonial rulers were less bothered about development interventions in tribal dominated areas as most of those areas were not economically viable as far as revenue collection was concerned. Sociologists opine that such alienation is one of the major reasons for the current unrest in this region. But today we are going to discuss another aspect of exclusive development model and its impacts on the marginalized tribal groups.
Meghalaya CM has violated poll code, says Sangma’s party
Shillong : Former Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma's National People's Party (NPP) has filed a complaint with the Election Commission seeking action against Meghalaya...
Rahul promises to create 100 mn jobs
Kohima : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Thursday promised to create "100 million jobs" for the unemployed youth of the northeastern states if his...
Militants finally free telecom professional
Aizawl : A telecom professional from Kolkata who was abducted by militants in November 2013 has been finally freed in Mizoram, police said Thursday.
Deep...
HC sore about inadequate publicity of northeast helpline
New Delhi : Expressing displeasure over adequate publicity not being given to the helpline set up for northeast people to prevent offences against them,...
India Inc. cries foul at Congress’s job quota promise
New Delhi : The Congress Wednesday repeated its promise to provide quotas in private sector for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes if...
‘Modi stands to negate everything enshrined in constitution’
Srinagar : Formally launching his party's poll campaign in the Valley, National Conference (NC) patron Farooq Abdullah said Wednesday Narendra Modi stands to negate...
Protests over tribal refugees voting in Mizoram LS poll
Aizawl/Agartala: Five NGOs and youth organisations in Aizawl have launched protest rallies against the Election Commission's decision to allow tribal refugees in Tripura's relief...
Manipur observes the 70th anniversary of Battle of Imphal (WW-II), 1944
By Dr. Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: Manipur is observing the 70th anniversary of Battle of Imphal, one of the most historic battles of the Second World War (WW-II) fought in 1944. The inaugural ceremony of the 3-month commemoration of the Battle of Imphal was held on March 23, 2014 at Manipur Film Development Corporation (MFDC) Auditorium at Imphal. The anniversary programmes will continue till June 28. Various programmes will be held at the sites where Allied forces and Japanese soldiers fought fierce battles.
Sikkim and Assam MPs most active northeast parliamentarians
New Delhi : P.D.Rai, first-time MP of the Sikkim Democratic Front, has participated in the maximum number of parliamentary debates and Badruddin Ajmal, MP...
Nido Tania killing: Accused’s judicial custody extended
New Delhi : A court here Tuesday extended, till April 7, the judicial custody of the four people allegedly involved in Arunachal Pradesh student...
Ghulam Nabi Azad files papers for Udhampur seat
Jammu : Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday filed his nomination papers for the Udhampur Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir.
Chief Minister...
Country going forward, Left-ruled Tripura backwards: Rahul
Agartala : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said while the rest of India is moving ahead, the Left-ruled Tripura is moving back.
"The Congress-led...
PM may spoil Rahul party in Northeast
By Jayanta Kumar Goswami,
As the 16th Lok Sabha elections approach, people in the Northeast gear up to exercise their democratic franchise in a peaceful manner. Looking at the voters’ enthusiasm and importance of the 25 seats available in the region, stalwarts of almost all political parties, especially Congress and BJP have thronged the state capitals here to woo the voters.
Students learn to be job providers
By TCN News,
Guwahati: A group of Engineering students concluded a three day “Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp” at Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) Azara campus, 20-22 March. Some 100 students of second, fourth, sixth and eight semesters participated in the camp organized in collaboration with Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, and sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi.
Political heat increases in Assam as first phase of poll nears
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: With the first phase of the Lok Sabha election is approaching on April 7 for the five seats in Assam, political parties have geared up their preparation in the midst of speculation, controversies and allegations. For these five seats mostly of the upper Assam, several big guns are featured including two union ministers – DoNER minister Paban Singh Ghatowar and union minister of state for tribal affairs Ranee Narah.
13 held in Assam witch-hunting case
Guwahati: At least 13 people were arrested Saturday for their alleged involvement in the murder of three members of a family in Assam...
Rahul Gandhi kicks-off campaign for Lok Sabha polls in Manipur
By Dr. Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: AICC Vice-President Rahul Gandhi kicked-off the party’s campaign for Lok Sabha polls by addressing a public meeting at the Wangjing Kadampokpi Ground in Thoubal district of Manipur on March 19, 2014.
Man gets life sentence for raping minor in Tripura
Agartala: A tribal was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Tripura for raping a 13-year-old girl, police said here Friday.
"Dhananjoy Reang raped...
Nagaland CM files Lok Sabha nomination
Kohima : Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio Thursday filed his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls from the lone parliamentary constituency in the...
Manipuri woman found dead in Delhi
New Delhi : A 20-year-old Manipuri woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her rented accommodation here Thursday, police said.
Aben Sofia was found...
Four killed, 27 injured in Meghalaya storm
Shillong: Four people, including a six-month-old baby, were killed and at least 27 others injured in a cyclonic storm in Meghalaya's West Khasi Hills...
BJP riddled with protests over tickets to ‘outsiders’
Mainpuri : Despite the hype over BJP's prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi's campaign, the disappointment and heartburn caused by ticket distribution could hurt the...
India’s Northeast: A region grows in electoral importance
By Saroj Mohanty,
The dominant narrative about India's Northeast looks in for a change. A rare coalescing of domestic politics and foreign policy interests is...
Rahul questions BJP’s plan on development in states
Wangjing (Manipur) : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday questioned the BJP's plan to impose the Gujarat model of development on all states. He...
Assam CM’s son files nomination
Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister's son Gourav Gogoi Wednesday filed his nomination papers to contest the Lok Sabha election from Kaliabor near Tezpur.
Gourav Gogoi...
Jammu and Kashmir poll observer dies in Tripura
Agartala : Pratapaditya Datta, an IAS officer of the 2010 Tripura-Manipur cadre and an election observer for Jammu and Kashmir, died here Wednesday following...
Meghalaya presents deficit budget
Shillong : Announcing levy of export fee on forest products in Meghalaya, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Wednesday presented a Rs.527 crore deficit budget for...
PDP, National Conference will clash in Baramulla
By Sheikh Qayoom,
Baramulla : The main contest in this Lok Sabha constituency in the northern part of Jammu and Kashmir will be between the...
Rahul Gandhi cancels trip to Mizoram
Aizawl/Agartala : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who is on a visit to the northeastern states, has cancelled his visit to Mizoram on Wednesday...
Development not insurgency key issue in northeast
By Sujit Chakraborty,
Agartala/Guwahati : With regional parties failing to prove themselves in the northeast, both the Congress and the BJP have launched their best...
Assam students want action on state’s burning issues
Guwahati : The All Assam Students' Union (AASU), an influential students organisation in the state, Tuesday asked political parties and candidates to make public...
Mulayam to contest from Azamgarh also
Lucknow : Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav will be contesting from two constituencies in the Lok Sabha polls - Mainpuri and Azamgarh.
Announcing Mulayam...
Compensation only after long battle by acid attack victim in Assam
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: The state authorities of Assam have ordered compensation for the acid victims following an urgent appeal by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) for immediate intervention and financial assistance to a survivor of acid attack as per the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court of India in 2013.
Meghalaya assembly rejects resolution for Garoland
Shillong : The Meghalaya assembly Tuesday rejected a resolution for creation of a separate state in the Garo Hills in the western part of...
Country-wide voter awareness campaign starts
Agartala : The information and broadcasting ministry will organise exhibitions in 480 locations across the country as part of its voter awareness campaign, an...
Gogoi white paper compares NDA, UPA performances
Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Monday said Assam faced gross injustice during the period when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic...
Rahul Gandhi to campaign in four northeastern states
Shillong : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will Tuesday begin his campaign in four states of the northeast for the Lok Sabha elections.
Elaborate security...
JKLF protest march in Srinagar against youth’s killing
Srinagar : Pro-Azadi Jammu and Kashmir Front (JKLF) activists took out a protest march in summer capital Srinagar Monday against the killing of a...
EC probing BJP’s ‘communal party’ tag in Tripura school books
Agartala : The Election Commission of India is probing the BJP being tagged a "communal party" in the textbooks of government schools in Left-ruled...
Tripura tops in voluntary blood donation
Agartala : Tripura has maintained its top position for the sixth consecutive year in voluntary blood donation in the country, Tripura Chief Minister Manik...
Curfew on in Kashmir, Srinagar tense
Srinagar : Curfew continued for a second day in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district Sunday following protests after police firing killed a young man,...
UPA lacks political will to solve Naga issue: Rio
Shillong: Terming the Congress as a "communal party" for shielding certain communities, Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio Saturday also accused the UPA government of...
Congress not doing any good for people: Nagaland CM
Shillong: The Congress was not doing any good for the people and the populist schemes launched by the outgoing UPA government were meant to...
Kashmir youth killed in security force firing, probe ordered
Srinagar : A youth was killed in firing by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district Friday after a clash with protesters, police...
Congress does not care for poor, tribals, says Modi
Bhubaneswar : Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said Friday the Congress party does not care for the poor and tribals...
Notification for first phase of polls issued in Assam, Tripura
Agartala/Guwahati : The notification for the first of the nine-phased Lok Sabha polls was issued Friday with this the process to constitute the 16th...
Rain, snow claim 17 lives in Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu : At least 17 people have died and 1,922 houses damaged due to heavy snowfall and rain in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister...
Air, surface links to Kashmir Valley restored
Srinagar : Air services between the Kashmir Valley and the rest of the country were restored Thursday and the strategic Srinagar-Jammu highway was also...
Border crimes increased after use of non-lethal arms
Agartala : After the Indian border guards started using non-lethal weapons, crimes along the India-Bangladesh border have increased, an official said here Thursday.
The border...
Colonial hangover ails workers of Assam’s tea industry
By Azera Parveen Rahman,
Tezpur (Assam) : Colonial-style bungalows of Assam's expansive tea gardens and the British-era lifestyles of their executives paint a picture postcard of yore. Sadly, this hangover also extends to the poor living conditions of labourers - an issue now in the limelight after the World Bank said that it was probing the violation of workers' rights inthese plantations it jointly finances with Tata Global Beverages.
Bangladeshi influx into Assam to be poll issue: Venkaiah Naidu
Guwahati : The anti-Congress wave across India will also affect the Lok Sabha polls in the northeast, and influx from Bangladesh into Assam will...
Over 500 people from northeast enroll as Delhi voters
New Delhi : The Election Commission received 550 new electoral forms after organising a day-long enrollment campaign for the people from the northeast here...
Compensate ‘shooting incident’ victims, NHRC tells Assam
Guwahati : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday asked the Assam government to pay Rs.5 lakh each to the next of kin of...
Northeast youth determined to make a difference this election
By Shradha Chettri,
New Delhi : With the focus being on northeastern India for more than a year now, it is but natural that the...
Journalists’ body urges political parties to manifest their gestures towards media fraternity
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: As the nation prepares for the next general election, Journalists' Forum Assam (JFA) has urged all political parties to show their sincerity towards the implementation of various welfare schemes to media persons engaged in both print and electronic media. The Assam based scribes' body also insisted on enrolling a special protection laws for journalists on duty in the election manifestos of all political parties.
Tripura troopers for Nagaland Lok Sabha polls
Agartala : Elite Tripura State Rifles (TSR) troopers will provide security during the April 9 Lok Sabha polls in Nagaland, an official said here...
Can Modi swing Jammu for the BJP?
By Sheikh Qayoom,
Jammu : It's a constituency the Congress has won eight times and which it currently holds. The BJP has won Jammu - its 1.76 million voters making it the largest among the six Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir - thrice and could just come up trumps this time around thanks to the Narendra Modi factor.
Meghalaya’s UDP names Paul Lyngdoh for Lok Sabha poll
Shillong : Meghalaya's opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) has nominated its working president and legislator Paul Lyngdoh for the Lok Sabha election here but...
11 killed in avalanche, house collapses in Kashmir
Srinagar/Jammu : Eleven people were killed Wednesday in avalanches and house collapses in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
A senior police officer...
One man’s extraordinary mission to uplift tribal children
By Jatindra Dash,
Bhubaneswar : He is hailed as a "god" by children of poor tribals of Odisha, a man who sought to overcome the...
Mob beats three militants to death in Assam
Guwahati : Three militants of Meghalaya-based outfit United Achik Liberation Army (UALA) were Tuesday beaten to death by villagers in Assam's Goalpara district, police...
Assam’s AGP to fight for existence in Lok Sabha polls
Guwahati : The Lok Sabha polls in Assam will not be a mere battle of the ballot for the state's most prominent regional party...
Meghalaya to put power projects on fast track
Shillong : The Meghalaya government will put all power projects on fast track to meet the power shortfall in the mountainous state, Chief Minister...
Energy surplus northeast can power rest of India
By Sujit Chakraborty
Agartala : Power-surplus northeastern India is unable to supply power to the energy-starved states for want of adequate transmission lines, experts here...
Muslim bodies in Manipur observed International Women’s Day
By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: As in other parts the globe, International Women’s Day was observed in Manipur on March 8, 2014. Manipur State Commission for Women, Department of Social Welfare, political parties and different civil society organizations observed the day by deliberating on some of the pressing issues of women in the State.
Meghalaya to consult centre on Garo peace talks
Shillong : Meghalaya will consult the central government to initiate peace talks with the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebel outfit, state Home Minister...
Congress blames Left for infiltration in Tripura
Agartala : The Congress Monday alleged that lakhs of infiltrators have illegally settled in Tripura during the 31-year rule of the Left Front government.
During...
Srinagar, the most high profile seat in Kashmir
By Sheikh Qayoom,
Srinagar : With 1.2 million voters spread over 15 assembly constituencies, the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency is the most prestigious among the...
Two LeT guerrillas killed in Kashmir gunfight
Srinagar : Two foreign guerrillas of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit were killed and one Indian army officer was injured Monday in a gunfight in...
‘Time for introspection,’ advise thinkers to minority community
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Eminent leaders and thinkers from different parts of the country exhorted the members of the minority Muslim community to introspect over their problems and remedies thereto during the one-day seminar cum workshop on ‘Socio-cultural, economic and educational backwardness of minority Muslims of India with special reference to Assam: causes and remedies’. This was organised by the Department of Persian Gauhati University and Justice & Equity Demand Samiti (JEDS) Assam at Phanidhar Dutta Seminar Hall, Gauhati University on Sunday.
India hands fresh list of insurgent camps to Bangladesh
Shillong : Bangladesh's border guards have promised firm action against insurgents from India's northeastern states taking shelter in that country, an Indian official said...
Assamese cultural activist invited in Bangladesh event
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: In what can be termed as a landmark endeavour, Guwahati-based cultural activist, documentation consultant and curator of the Guwahati International Music Festival, Aiyushman Dutta, has been invited to join a first-ever documentation project of the centuries-old ‘Dol Purnima Utsab’ of the Bauls to be held from March 14-17 in Kushtia, Bangladesh this year.
Young Muslim body builder felicitated in Manipur
By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: Muslim Council Manipur (MCM) felicitated 21 year old national body building title holder Md. Awaysh Khan at a function organized at Manipur Press Club, Majorkhul in Imphal on March 8, 2014.
ONGC agerees to supply gas to Tripura power project
Agartala : State-owned ONGC has finally agreed to supply natural gas to 101-MW capacity Monarchak power plant that is being set up by government-run...
Congress list has wrong candidate for Meghalaya’s Tura
Shillong: In a goof-up, the first list of Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha polls has the name of Meghalaya Sports Minister Zenith Sangma...
Blow to AGP as former chief resigns, could join BJP
Guwahati : Assam's Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) Saturday received a jolt ahead of the Lok Sabha polls with the resignation of former party president...
Students Protest at UP Bhawan against Sedition Charges on Kashmiri Student
By Kashif Ahmed Faraz,
New Delhi: Several students protested UP Bhawan in the Capital against the harassment and eviction of Kashmiri students in Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut and the slapping of sedition charges against 67 Kashmiri students. The protesters included activists, students from universities, mostly from JNU and Kashmiri Students.
IAF lifts 425 stranded passengers between Leh and Jammu
Jammu : The Indian Air Force Friday lifted 425 stranded passengers between Leh town of Jammu and Kashmir's Ladakh region and Jammu city on...
Abide by model code of conduct, J&K political parties told
Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir chief electoral officer (CEO) Umang Narula Friday asked political parties to abide by the model code of conduct during...