Tripura’s royal rulers wanted to merge with Pakistan: Manik Sarkar
Agartala : A section of the then ruling Tripura royal family had tried to merge the erstwhile princely state with East Pakistan (now Bangladesh),...
Nellie 1983: No justice even after 32 years for Nellie massacre victims
"In Nellie, time stands still. No socio-economic development has taken place in the area. Where and how to get justice for the victims?
By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net,
Guwahati: It has been 32 years. Though the world has witnessed a sea change around him, nothing has changed for Sirajuddin Ahmed. The pain and agony still haunts him and he says, it will probably continue till his last breath.
Assam’s little reporters: Agents of change for neglected communities
By Azera Parveen Rahman,
Dibrugarh (Assam) : They are perceptive, have no biases, are honest and don't mince their words. Articles by children reporters of...
Documentary film on Forest Man Jadav Payeng of Assam gets award at Cannes
By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: A documentary film on the life of Jadav Payeng, the man who single-handedly created a forest on the Brahmaputra sandbar in Jorhat won award at Cannes.
‘Attacks on northeasterners due to lack of knowledge of region’
By Raymond Kharmujai,
Shillong : The language barrier and lack of knowledge of the culture and identity of the people of the eight northeastern states...
Hyderabad MP Owaisi clashes with Najma Heptulla in Lok Sabha
New Delhi : Two senior leaders, Asaduddin Owaisi of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and union Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla, clashed fiercely in the Lok...
Assam honours SC, breaks tradition on animal fights
Guwahati : Assam Thursday broke a more than a century-old tradition to honour the Supreme Court ban on animal fights. The state stayed away...
Dr Syed Ahmed sworn in as Governor of Manipur
By Dr. Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: Dr Syed Ahmed was sworn in as the 16th Governor of Manipur at the Durbar Hall of Raj Bhavan here on 16th May 2015. Chief Justice of Manipur High Court Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra administered the oath of office and secrecy to Dr Syed Ahmad. Chief Secretary of the State P.C. Lawmkunga presided the swearing-in-ceremony.
PA Sangma: Sagacity was the mark of first tribal Lok Sabha speaker
By Nirendra Dev
New Delhi : It was to the sagacity of his stint as a member of parliament for many years from Tura constituency...
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...
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.
Name Delhi road after Assam saint: Gogoi urges Kejriwal
New Delhi : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday met his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal and urged him to name a road in...
A conversation with GN Saibaba’s wife AS Vasantha Kumari
In a conversation with TwoCircles.net, the wife of jailed scholar-activist GN Saibaba AS Vasantha Kumari talks about his new book, the situation of prisoners...
What really happened in Dimapur?
Anger against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants spills over to take rape accused person’s life
By A Ghyasuddin, TwoCircles.net,
A lot has been said by many but the fact remains that there was a serious breach of law and order by Nagaland government and the outcome was killing of an under trial rape accused in a most horrifying way for a modern world.
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...
Mobile court launched in Tripura
Agartala : A mobile court has been flagged off in Tripura to resolve pending cases and to make people aware about the nitty-gritty of...
13 years later, ‘Iron Lady’ Sharmila refuses to give up
By Ninglun Hanghal,
Malom (Manipur) : "Iron Lady" Sharmila Chanu completes Sunday 13 years of hunger strike that she began after the massacre of 10...
Congress chief writes to Assam CM on NCERT syllabus
Guwahati : Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has directed the Assam government to be ready to make representations to the centre to ensure that changes...
‘Foreign investment needed to harness power potential of Northeast’
By Sujit Chakraborty,
Agartala : Without foreign investment, the vast power potential of the northeastern region could not be leveraged, says the man heading the...
New TV channel for northeast: Jaitley
New Delhi : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday announced a new 24X7 television channel for the northeast region.
"A new channel named 'Arun Prabha', which...
Dimapur burns as rape accused hanged by protestors
By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Dimapur (Nagaland): In a hair rising incident, a rape accused was paraded naked in streets, lynched and later hanged in full public glare at Dimapur, the capital of northeastern state of Nagaland, on Thursday.
The incident was widely reported by local television channels and also those from the neighbouring Assam. Police said, one Syed Sarif Khan had allegedly raped a girl on February 24. Following the complaint lodged by the girl, police arrested Khan from his residence.
Jharkand’s Bamboo artisans experience livelihood crunch amid lockdown, worry for future of profession
By Nazish Hussain, TwoCircles.net
Jaggarnath Mahli of Hesal village, situated 20 kilometres from Ranchi city, makes bamboo articles for a living. Due to the coronavirus...
Rough and ready justice
By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam,
Nobody sympathises with a rapist. All of us wish the worst to befall him: let him come under the wheels of a big truck. Or, even worse: let him be run over by a huge goods train and die a horrible death. Or, if we can be patient and wait for a while, let the law award him a life sentence. Better still: let the law hang him.
New Rural Livelihood scheme for Northeast to benefit tribals: DoNER Minister
New Delhi, (IANS): The new Rural Livelihood scheme for the Northeast will primarily benefit the tribals and the lower socio economic groups including women in...
Assam floods: Seven dead, situation grim in two districts
Guwahati : The flood situation has deteriorated in Assam's Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts with seven deaths reported from the area where three lakh people...
Bengal governor takes charge of Meghalaya, says won’t talk politics
Shillong : West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi, who Tuesday took additional charge of Meghalaya, said he does not talk politics in Bengal and...
Youth Congress will fight for the rights of refugees: J&K Pyc
By TCN News,
Jammu: After the successful completion of agitation for 73rd Amendment and empowerment of Panchayats in Jammu and Kashmir, several delegations of refugees and refugee leaders Rajeev Chuni, Labha Ram Gandhi and Capt. Yudhveer Singh met J&K Youth Congress committee and urged the J&K Pradesh Youth Congress to fight for their rights also.
Maoists abduct seven tribals in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: Seven tribals, including a village head and a former block chairperson, were abducted by Maoists in Odisha's Malkangiri district, police said on Tuesday.
They...
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...
NDFB militants massacre 11 in Assam’s BTAD; scared villagers flee to safer places
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Hundreds of villagers of Assam’s Bodoland Territorial District (BTAD) have started fleeing for safer places after armed militants of anti-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) fired indiscriminately killing at least 11 villagers including two children.
Militants kidnap two tribals in Tripura
Agartala : Militants have kidnapped two tribal men in Tripura, police said Friday.
Police suspect that the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants might...
‘Ask CBI to probe Karnataka IAS officer’s death’
Agartala : The IAS association's Tripura branch on Saturday demanded a CBI probe into the death of Karnataka's young IAS officer D.K. Ravi.
"The IAS...
Dates announced for Assam by-polls
Guwahati : Bye-elections in three legislative assembly constituencies in Assam will take place Sep 13, the Election Commission announced Saturday.
Counting of votes will...
Made mistake, but don’t play it up: Modi on ‘immigrants’ goof-up
New Delhi : A day after the BJP drew flak over a "typographical error" of referring to people from the northeast as "immigrants" in...
एससी-एसटी आरक्षण के वर्गीकरण के खिलाफ और समर्थन में सजातियों में छुआछूत है बड़ी...
Poonam Masih, TwoCircles.net
देश आजाद होने के बाद संविधान निर्माता डॉ. भीमराव अंबेडकर ने वंचित समुदाय के लिए आरक्षण की मांग करते हुए इसे संवैधानिक...
Two Bodo militants killed in Assam
Guwahati : Two hardcore Bodo militants were killed in a joint operation by security forces in Assam's Sonitpur district, an official said on Wednesday.
Based...
Tripura withdraws school book that tags BJP a communal party
Agartala : The Left Front government in Tripura has decided to withdraw the government school textbook in which the BJP was tagged as a...
Purifying Your Wealth and Targeting Poverty and Inequality
By Althaf Shajahan,
Running regressions and making sense of data is my job. We were working on a sort of data analysis where we had to consider different socio-economic groups and using data on three variables, viz. household income, consumption and assets which would together measure something we may term us material well-being and compute an inequality adjusted index value for each group. As expected, Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims fared the worst. Yeah! What’s new in this? Sachar report and every possible report speak about this. Well here, the index needs to be explained. Our index measures household indicators of well. While it aggregates across all the members of the groups, it discounts for the inequality among the members. (Refer the original computations in the figure below ). While searching the data for Muslim cases, I did see observations on Muslim community members who belong to the top percentiles and quintiles of either income or wealth. It is this inequality that makes me mull over. Intra-community inequality is not the concern of the state. While it is possible for Muslims as citizens of this nation to ask for state support and schemes citing their vulnerability as much as Dalits or Adivasis are, public policy may or may not consider it. But the inbuilt poverty and inequality targeting systems needs to be looked at.
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...
Assam students’ body meets Census Registrar General over NRC
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: With the updating process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) going on for the people of Assam, several flaws have been detected by the civil society and various other organizations.
In fact, the All Assam Minorities’ Students’ Union (AAMSU) have met the Registrar General and Census Commissioner in New Delhi. The Char Chapori Sahitya Parishad (CCSP) too has raised its objections and demanded a flawless NRC.
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विश्व स्वास्थ्य दिवस गुज़र गया, लेकिन इन आदिवासी महिला किसानों की किसी से न...
शैलेंद्र सिन्हा
दुमका (झारखंड) : हर साल की तरह हमने कल यानी 7 अप्रैल ‘विश्व स्वास्थ्य दिवस’ मना लिया. सरकारी स्तर कई कार्यक्रम हुए जिनकी...
Troopers to watch over Tripura by-poll Saturday
Agartala : A contingent of security personnel has been deployed for the Manu assembly by-poll in Tripura Saturday, an official said here Friday.
"An adequate...
Omar Abdullah takes responsibility for defeat, undecided on stepping down
Srinagar : Expressing shock over the rout of the Congress-National Conference (NC) ruling alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday took...
Tania died of serious internal injuries, court told
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court was informed Monday by the city police that 19-year-old Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania died because...
Modi hasn’t fulfilled promises, says Assam CM
Guwahati : Though the Narendra Modi government has completed six months in office, yet none of his pre-poll promises have been fulfilled so far,...
‘Chalo Thiruvananthapuram’ will bring forth issues of Dalits and Adivasis, expose Kerala model of...
By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net
Thiruvananthapuram: On the lines of Chalo Una movement in Gujarat followed by Chalo Udupi in Karnataka, Kerala will see the Chalo...
Budget pro-rich, pro-corporate: Assam CM
Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogol Saturday termed the union budget for 2015-16 "pro-rich and pro-corporate", while regional political party Asom Gana Parishad...
11 students debarred from Ghaziabad institute hostel
Ghaziabad : A Ghaziabad institute Friday debarred 11 Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri students from its hostel after they were found to be indulging in violence,...
MIM appeals supporters to join Mumbai’s Dalit mass protest on July 22
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
Mumbai: In yet another attempt to portray it to be the party of Muslims and Dalits, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen...
International heli-skiing challenge begins in Gulmarg
By IANS,
Srinagar : Around 200 skiers from the US, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and India turned up for the first international...
Kashmir government increases employees retirement age to 60
Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir government Tuesday enhanced the retirement age of its employees to 60 years from the existing 58.
The decision was...
‘Phir Ugana’: How Tribal Poet Parvati Tirkey Gave Voice to a Silenced Culture
'I Wrote in the Language They Forgot—Now They Can’t Ignore Us', Says Jharkhand's Parvati Tirkey After Winning Sahitya Akademi Award
First-of-Its-Kind Win: Parvati Tirkey’s ‘Phir...
294 days and counting: Why Churachandpur refuses to bury its dead
By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net
Churachandpur, Manipur: September 1 started like every other day at work for Chingneihoih, 22, from Churachandpur. For the...
Ebola virus: Tripura, Mizoram take preventive measures
Agartala/Aizawl : The Tripura and Mizoram governments have taken a number of preventive measures to check spread of deadly Ebola disease, officials from both...
Sonia Gandhi urges NE CMs to include history and culture in syllabi
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has asked Congress chief ministers of the northeast states to ensure that the changes in the NCERT syllabus on the history and culture of the northeastern states, as recommended by the Bezbaruah Committee, are meaningful.
No mandatory arrest for offences under SC/ST Act, says SC
New Delhi, (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the arrest of a accused under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of...
Two more interlocutors shortlisted for Naga peace talks
By IANS,
Kohima : The central government has shortlisted two more people for appointment as the interlocutor for the peace talks with the separatist National...
66-Year-Old Jharkhand Man a Beacon of Hope for Abandoned Girls
Tauseef Ahmad/ TwoCircles.net
Hari Ram Pandey, a 66-year-old man from Deogarh in Jharkhand, has been raising abandoned girls on his own for the past two...
Over 80 percent voting in Tripura gram panchayat polls
Agartala : Over 80 percent of the 1.1 million electors Tuesday cast their votes in the elections to the three-tier gram panchayat in Left-ruled...
Four year old girl struggles at GMCH after Bodo militants’ attack
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: The little girl was screaming at her bed at Guwahati Medical College Hospital. The four year old Taslima Khatun of Narasingbari village in Assam’s Baska district has lost her finger and received bullet injuries as armed militants of National Democratic Front of Bodoalnd (NDFB) opened fire killing four people in front of her on Thursday night.
Northeast can set off India’s second Green Revolution: ICAR director Ngachan
By Sujit Chakraborty
Agartala : The mountainous northeastern region, which comprises eight states, occupies eight percent of India's land area and is home to four...
टीसीएन स्पेशल : मुश्किल है शिवालिक की पहाड़ियों में बसे वन गुर्जरो को...
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‘Afzal Guru deserved the same reprieve’
By IANS,
Jammu : Mehbooba Mufti, who heads the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said Tuesday that parliament attack convict Afzal Guru deserved the same reprieve that has been given to Rajiv Gandhi assassins.
‘New funding pattern cost Assam over Rs.7,000 crore’
Guwahati : The central government's delinking of several centrally-sponsored schemes and changing the funding pattern in some of them has cost Assam over Rs.7,000...
Assam to oppose Centre’s ban on recruitment: Gogoi
Guwahati : Assam will oppose the central government's ban on recruitment and will go ahead with filling up the vacant posts in the state,...
Rs.124.04 bn tax-free deficit budget in Tripura
By IANS,
Agartala : Tripura Finance Minister Badal Chaudhury Wednesday presented a Rs.124.04 billion tax-free budget with a deficit of Rs.1.58 billion for the 2014-15...
A story of Manipur when it started to simmer (Book Review)
By M.R. Narayan Swamy,
Title: On A Clear Day You Can See India; Author: C. Balagopal, Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 203; Prices: Rs.299
Tripura CM to skip Modi’s swearing-in
Agartala : Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar will not attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as India's next prime minister because he has...
Scheduled Tribe status for six Assam communities
New Delhi : The committee formed to recommend communities of Assam for granting the Scheduled Tribe (ST) status will submit its report shortly, Minister...
‘SC/ST left out of pro-corporate budget,’ rights group alleges
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Dalit and tribal groups do not seem very happy with the union budget, which they claimed is pro-rich.
“Pursuing unabashedly and openly a pro-rich policy, the Modi Budget outlines a corporate vision of India that unashamedly eats into the budgetary allocations meant for the millions of its poorest and neediest citizens, the Dalits and Adivasis,” said the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) - Dalit Arthik Adhikar Andolan (DAAA), which works towards the elimination of caste-based discrimination.
Resurgence and resistance: Convention in TISS, Mumbai celebrates the stories of Adivasi women
By Daisy K, TwoCircles.net
Fourteen Adivasi women came together on stage to celebrate their struggles and victories at the Adivasi/Tribal women's convention held at Tata...
Modi government committed to OBC reservation, say Rajnath, Ananth Kumar
New Delhi : The Narendra Modi government on Monday asserted that it is committed to reservation for Other Backward Class (OBC) with Union Home...
Four Indian universities to introduce tribal language courses
Agartala : Four universities in India, including Delhi University, will introduce tribal language courses from Jan 26 next year, Tripura governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya...
Protests erupt in Kashmir town
By IANS,
Srinagar : Clashes erupted Tuesday in north Kashmir's Kupwara town between police and civilian protestors after seven guerrillas were killed in the district...
Modi lauds Tripura’s success over terrorism: CM
Agartala : Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen to tell the other states the Left-ruled Tripura's success vis-a-vis four decades of terrorism, Chief Minister...
डिजिटल इंडिया का सच : उत्तर प्रदेश का एक थाना ऐसा भी जहां नही...
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Over one lakh people affected by Meghalaya floods
Shillong : More than one lakh people were affected in Meghalaya Monday after the swollen Brahmaputra and Jingiram rivers submerged several villages, an official...
AGP protests centre’s move on land swap with Bangladesh
Guwahati : Assam's regional party Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) Tuesday held protest demonstrations across the state protesting the central government's decision to hand over...
School students in Assam village debate over population explosion in India
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: The 2nd Inter School Debate Competition 2015 was organized by Alumni of Al-Ameen Islamic Model School and Bagh Hazarika Centre for Cultural Studies Guwahati on Saturday at Goroimari, Kamrup District, situated about 80 km from Guwahati.
Child-tracing portal hit by poor infrastructure in northeast
Guwahati : Lack of computers in many police stations and poor internet connectivity have stopped police in many northeastern states from uploading data in...
Lifetime achievement award to Manipuri Muslim Writer Mohd Abdur Rahman
By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: Renowned Manipuri Muslim writer Mohd. Abdur Rahman (78) was awarded ICRA Lifetime Achivement Award 2014 for the extraordinary contribution he has made to Manipuri Literature over the years at a function organized jointly by Writers Union, Manipur (WUM) and Islamic Cultural & Research Association (ICRA), Manipur at Manipur Press Club, Imphal on June 28, 2014.
Emerge as creative leaders: Kalam to IIM students
Shillong : Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Thursday urged students of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Shillong to emerge as creative leaders to bring...
Manipur election candidates face bomb, gun attacks
Imphal, (IANS): Several candidates in the upcoming Manipur elections have been targeted with bombs and guns by unidentified persons, police sources said on Thursday.
A...
Manipur insurgents order shutdown to protest Modi’s visit
Imphal (IANS): The Coordinating Committee (Corcom) formed by six proscribed underground organisations in Manipur on Tuesday called for a 17-hour shutdown in Manipur to...
Police vehicle kills three in Tripura
Agartala : Three morning walkers were killed Saturday and two critically injured after being run over by a police vehicle in Tripura, police said...
Achyuta Samanta and the role of KISS in empowering Odisha’s tribals
By Rajaraman Sundaresan for TwoCircles.net
Between democracy and development as an idea, one feels that democracy in many ways has taken a back seat....
Army to intensify operations in Assam
New Delhi : Army chief Gen. Dalbir Singh Friday said operations will be intensified in violence-hit Assam where Bodo militants massacred dozens of tribals...
Act against ‘atrocities’ on Telangana’s Dalits, Congress tells panels
New Delhi/Hyderabad, (IANS): The Congress on Wednesday urged the NHRC and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes to direct the Telangana government to take action...
Learning from Meghalaya village to keep India clean
By Raymond Kharmujai,
Mawlynnong (Meghalaya) : If Indians want to make their country a clean and healthy place, then they should learn from the Khasi...
Life term for Tripura editor in triple murder case
Agartala : A court in Tripura Thursday awarded life imprisonment till death to a newspaper editor-cum-owner in a year-old triple murder case, a public...
160 northeast youths to join Delhi Police: Rijiju
New Delhi : Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju Tuesday announced 160 youths from northeast states would be inducted into Delhi Police.
Rijiju...
Rs.20,000 crore road projects announced for northeast
Guwahati : The central government will spend Rs.20,000 crore for the development of roads in the northeastern states this year, Union Road Transport, Highways...
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...
Go easy on protesters: Assam CM to police
Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday instructed police to go easy on public protests and said baton-charge and firing should be...
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...
Assam a Muslim populous state with under-representation of Muslims
By Wahidul Islam for TwoCircles.net,
Amidst the paranoia and degrading level of politics, Muslims have always been most vulnerable and politically exploited section of the...
92 chit funds flee Tripura: Minister
Agartala : At least 92 unauthorised Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and chit funds have fled Tripura after illegally collecting huge amounts of money from...
KLO leader held in Siliguri
By IANS,
Siliguri : Militant outfit Kamtapur Liberation Organisation's (KLO) vice president Tom Adhikary was arrested along with an associate near the India-Nepal border here...
Backward classes panel for quota in private sector
New Delhi : The National Commission of Backward Classes has written to the social justice ministry to bring a bill for providing 27 percent...
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...
Tourists in large numbers a dividend of peace: Omar
By IANS,
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday stressed the vast potential of the state for sports, adventure and pilgrim tourism,...
Tripura wants better bus services from northeast
Agartala : The Tripura government Tuesday reiterated it would launch direct bus services between the northeastern states and Kolkata via Bangladesh for easy ferrying...
British parliamentarians to Assam on good will visit
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: British Deputy High Commissioner Furssedonn Wood said that a delegation of British parliamentarians is likely to visit Assam as part of goodwill visit to India in the first part of next year.
The British Deputy High Commissioner, Kolkata, also met Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi in this regard.
Transferred from Maharashtra to Mizoram, Sankaranarayanan quits
Mumbai : Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan, who was early Sunday abruptly transferred to Mizoram for the rest of his term, has announced his resignation.
"I...
Assam wants SSB along volatile Nagaland border
Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has requested Home Minister Rajnath Singh to deploy the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) as a neutral force...
Peace pact with Meghalaya rebel outfit before cabinet: Official
By IANS,
Shillong : The union home ministry has referred the draft of the settlement agreement to be signed with Meghalaya's rebel A'chik National Volunteers...
Anti-national activities go down in Assam: Government
Guwahati : The Assam government Tuesday said intensified security measures have led to a steep fall in anti-national activities of fundamentalist forces in the...
Tripura chief minister denies involvement in chit funds
Agartala : Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Tuesday denied his government's involvement in the activities of chit fund groups and illegal non-banking financial...
Assam celebrates R-Day, CM outlines new schemes
Guwahati : The 66th Republic Day was celebrated across Assam Monday with enthusiasm, with people ignoring threats from militants.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi unfurled the...
Bappu Haji: An octogenarian who lives only to serve others
By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twociricles.net
For Bappu Haji, charity has never been an option; it is more of way of live. Nearly 40 years ago,...
Veteran politician of Manipur Md. Helaluddin Khan passed away
By Dr. Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: Former Minister and veteran politician of Manipur Md. Helaluddin Khan passed away on April 25, 2014 at his residence at Lilong Haoreibi Makha Leikai, in Thoubal District, due to an illness. He was elected to the Manipur Legislative Assembly from the Lilong Assembly Constituency four times. He also held various portfolios including the Department of Revenue and Irrigation & Flood Control as Cabinet Minister. He was 70. The last rite was performed on April 25.
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