Children, who will be honoured with the National Bravery Awards for Children 2011, attend a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday. (PTI)
Royalty from coal should be increased: CM From CK Nayak New Delhi: Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma on Wednesday questioned the very fundamentals of the non-lapsable pool of funds and demanded that instead of earmarking 10 per cent of the budget of the ministries for the Northeast this may be kept in a [...]
By Our Reporter SHILLONG: Overtaking by errant drivers is believed to be the most common cause behind traffic jams in the city as well as on the highways and the Shillong Traffic Police (STP) now has decided not to ‘spare the rod’ anymore against anyone involved in overtaking. The Traffic police has decided to issue [...]
New Delhi: An Army Chief ‘has a right to retire with dignity’, Gen VK Singh has pleaded before the Supreme Court while accepting the government’s right to determine his tenure. Challenging as ‘illegal and arbitrary’ the rejection of his Statutory Complaint to Defence Minister AK Antony on December 30 last for accepting May 10, 1951 [...]
From Our Correspondent Guwahati: Japanese officials with help from the administration in Guwahati city and Assam’s forensic department have started exhuming eleven graves of Japanese soldiers from World War II who were buried in the war cemetery at Silphukhuri in the heart of the city. A senior official of Kamrup Metropolitan district informed that three [...]
New Delhi: The Indian government on Wednesday extended by another six months separate ceasefire agreements with two rebel groups in Assam that would facilitate the ongoing peace process in the northeast. The separate truce agreements between the government and National Democratic Front of Bodoland-Progressive (NDFB-P) and the Dilip Nunisa-led Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) would be [...]
By Our Reporter SHILLONG: Home Minister HDR Lyngdoh and General Administration Department (GAD) Minister AL Hek are currently in Manipur as election observers of the Congress party. Both Lyngdoh and Hek have been appointed by the AICC as election observers for the Manipur Assembly election scheduled on January 28. When contacted, Lyngdoh said that they [...]
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