Tinsukia/Imphal, May 19: Organic tea produced by the Singpho tribesmen of Upper Assam and small growers in neighbouring Manipur is set to take the global market by storm.

World Community Development Education Society (WCDES), a Vancouver-based NGO, has joined hands with Singpho tea producers to produce and market organic tea in North America. The Manipur-based Foundation for Environment and Economic Services (FEEDS) has done likewise, signing agreements with three companies from Germany, Japan and the UK.

The Singpho tribe claims to have introduced organic tea to the British way back in the...

GUWAHATI, May 19: The Royal Government of Bhutan has called upon its nationals to voluntarily join a government militia force to fight and remove the ULFA, NDFB and Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO) rebels operating from bases inside the tiny Himalayan kingdom, reports today said.

"When the security and sovereignty of our country is under threat, the true sons of the soil must step forward and not wait to be called upon to serve their country," Bhutan?s King Jigme Singhye Wangchuk was quoted as saying by Kuensel, the country?s national newspaper.

Addressing a group of people?s...

NEW DELHI, May 19 ? Alarmed at the presence of Northeast militants on its soil, Bhutan has decided to set up a counter-insurgency force to fight them and asked India to ensure that no more militants enter the tiny Himalayan Kingdom, reports PTI. ?They (North-east militants) have to be made to leave the country before they strengthened their presence in Bhutan,? a senior Bhutanese official Sonam Tshering was quoted as saying on the internet edition of government funded newspaper Kuensel.

Bhutan has asked militants to wind up their camps before June 30 failing which Government would take...

GUWAHATI, May 19?The prestigious Rajdhani Express from Guwahati to New Delhi has been be made a daily service following increase in the frequency from Guwahati to New Delhi via Patna from three days a week to five days a week and Guwahati-Dibrugarh town link Rajdhani Express from two days to three days a week. An NF Railway press release said the Guwahati-New Delhi Rajdhani Express has been provided an additional stoppage at Allahabad with effect from May 25. The Express from Dibrugarh via Guwahati will run on Saturday, Sunday and Monday even as the train leaving Dibrugarh on Saturday and...

GUWAHATI, May 18 ? Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said the State Government was keen to grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the Adivasi people. The matter will be discussed in the next Cabinet session and then the Centre will be moved for expediting the process, he said. Speaking as chief guest at the concluding session of the sixth Adivasi Mohasabha organised by the All Adivasi Students? Association of Assam, Gogoi said the Government was doing its best to enure all-round development of the Adivasis. ?Adivasis living on government land for a long time will be granted pattas?, he declared...