Guwahati, Jan. 19: The North Eastern Space Applications Centre has decided to use Indian remote sensing satellites for the early detection and control of endemic diseases in the region.

The project, titled ?Early detection and control of endemic diseases in the Northeast?, will be implemented in collaboration with the Regional Medical Research Centre in Dibrugarh under the Indian Council of Medical Research, which will provide research-based support.

The centre will concentrate on Japanese encephalitis and malaria, the two major killer diseases in the region.

Hundreds of people living in the...

Shillong, Jan. 19: In poll parlance, a sensitive booth usually connotes a place where the authorities apprehend violence. In a departure of sorts, polling stations within the striking distance of rampaging elephants in the hills of Ri Bhoi and other Meghalaya districts have also been declared ?sensitive?.

The Election Commission has sought help from the forest department to ensure that voting is not disrupted by the elephants, who are posing an ?equally serious threat?.

The state election commission today said the forest department has been asked to provide logistic support to polling...

KOHIMA, Jan 18 ? After Jammu and Kashmir, voters slips in addition to photo identity cards (PIC) will be used for the first time in the North-east when Nagaland goes to Assembly elections on February 26, reports PTI.

Disclosing this here Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) JM Lyngdoh on Friday night told reporters that voters slips would be provided to the head of each family in Nagaland and not in Meghalaya and Tripura which also go to polls on the same day. The full Election Commission team led by Lyngdoh, reviewed the election preparations and security arrangements during meetings with the...

DIBRUGARH, Jan 18 ? Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today warned that the Assam government would not accede an inch of States territory to the greater Nagaland demand of the NSCN (I-M). ?Inclusion of any territorial part of Assam in the greater Nagaland as proposed by the NSCN (I-M) will be opposed by our government,? Gogoi thundered. Gogoi was speaking to local mediapersons here today. Deliberating on a wide range of subjects, Gogoi welcomed idea of issuing citizens? identity cards to keep a tab on illegal influx.

On the issue of sending back illegal Bangladeshis from the country, he shot back:...

AGARTALA, Jan 18 ? The Opposition Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) yesterday announced its candidates for 16 seats out of 18 in which they would fight against the Left Front. The candidates for the two seats Jolaibari and Asharambari will be announced later, said party?s general secretary Rabindra Debbarma. The party has left two ST reserved constituencies Pecharthal and Golaghati to Congress.

Apparently dogged by the ?Congress syndrome? in view of presence of more than one aspirant, the INPT failed to reach a consensus as to who should be nominated in the two remaining...