Silchar, March 7: Mizoram has added another feather to its cap ? it has emerged as a state where women voters outnumber their male counterparts. The revised electoral rolls for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the state show that women voters have edged past their male counterparts by 2,272. Of the 5,50,232 voters in Mizoram, there are 2,76,252 women and 2,73,980 men.

Women had outnumbered men by 3,816 heads during last year?s Assembly polls too. It is, however, a matter of irony in the Christian state that though women voters are more in number than men, they do not shine in the same proportion on...

Kohima, March 7: Nagaland has planned captive breeding of mithun, the wild bison found in the hilly reaches of the Northeast, and set up state-of-the-art abattoirs to process and package the meat for marketing.

Announcing the successful experiments on captive breeding of mithuns, chief minister Neiphiu Rio said his government was looking into the huge investment and market potential of bison meat. Successful experiments were also conducted in cattle rearing, piggery and poultry farming, he said. The chief minister said the state has abundant potential in floriculture, organic farming and...

Kohima, March 5: The decks have been cleared for the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to begin oil exploration in Nagaland with the tribal organisation, opposed to the activity, finally giving a green light. The tribal Lotha Hoho, whose writ runs large in the oil-rich Wokha district, was opposed to the oil giant resuming operations in the area.

Chief minister Neiphiu Rio today said ONGC and other oil companies have been asked to start work without delay. ?I am happy that the landowners are also coming around,? he told a packed Banquet Hall at his residence on the first anniversary of the...

Guwahati, March 5: Bangkok Airways may well fly into the space vacated by Air-India in the Guwahati-Bangkok sector.

Assam industry minister Bhubaneswar Kalita disclosed that the airline has evinced interest in connecting the city with the Thai capital. ?A delegation from the airline will visit the state next month to carry out a feasibility study of the sector,? he said here last night.

The minister said he and a delegation of the Federation of Industries of North East Region (Finer) had held preliminary talks with officials of Bangkok Airways at Yangon last month.

Kalita and the Finer team...

Imphal, March 5: Having conquered the hearts of music lovers of Manipur, Salam Sophia, who is compared with the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar, for her sonorous voice, is all set to enrapture the south Indian film and music lovers.

Sophia, 26, will be lending her voice in a forthcoming Tamil film in a duet with the famous south Indian singer-cum-composer Hariharan. She has recorded the song, Arjuna... Arjuna... in the action film Hay at studio SASI, Chennai, owned by music sensation A.R. Rehman on February 25.

The lyrics have been penned by Kalai Kumar and the music is by Shrikant Dev...