MOREH, March 22 – Though, the Centre has given the go ahead for promotion of Indo-Myanmar bilateral trade and agreed in principle for construction of a Food and Civil Supply godown at Moreh, India’s gateway to the south east Asian countries, the cash strapped Manipur government is unable to translate it into action.

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs had sanctioned Rs 58 lakh to construct a 1250 metric ton capacity Food and Civil Supply godown at Moreh of which 50 per cent is in the form of subsidy while the rest is in the form of a loan. However, the Centre released only Rs 35 lakh after...

IMPHAL, March 21 — Former speaker of the lok sabha and general secretary of the nationalist Congress Party (ncp) Purno A Sangma has given the green signal to end the internal conflict in the ncp state unit. He also said that a central observers team will be sent to Manipur within this month to sort out the ongoing row between two factions of the party in the wake of it’s “controversial” state unit office bearer election that lead to the locking of the NCP state unit office here since February.

The indication to send party observers was conveyed to N Radhakanta,a leader of the NCP who fought...

Shillong, March 21: The sacrifice of a leopard in Nongtaleng village of Jaintia Hills district today has brought a minister in the D.D. Lapang government as well as an entire community under a cloud. The forest department is probing the incident.

Residents of Nongtalang, 17 km from Dawki and 3 km from the Bangladesh border, sacrificed the leopard (Felis Bengalensis), a rare and endangered species according to Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, to celebrate Rong Khli or Shad Khla (festival of tiger). The festival, which was held after 10 years, is celebrated by believers of Niam Tynrai...

IMPHAL, March 17 :As part of intensifying their task of cleansing the education system under its Operation New Kangleipak (ONK), the proscribed Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup, said that it would intensify its campaign in the ensuing High School Leaving Certificate examination. The outfit in a statement issued here said that teachers who do not take action against cheating inside the examination halls and who encourage the students to use unfair means would be forced to resign. Heads of institutions who cannot control and stop their teachers and students from cheating will also be forced to resign...

GUWAHATI, March 20— It has the animals that slither and also the ones that claw their ways up. For it is a documentary film on the reptiles— the reptiles of North-East India. This documentary film— Friends for ever: Common Reptiles of North-East India, directed and produced by Sri Dip Bhuyan, an M Sc in Statistics from Delhi University, has once again provided the documentary proof that there is no dearth of talent or lack of determination among our youths. Sri Bhuyan is associated with documentary films for the past about 11 years.

Assam or for that matter the entire NE region, has remained...