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The girl and her family were physically and verbally abused, then she was locked in the house she had rented.
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A decade back, when in my mid-teens, I went on a trip to Kameng in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh. I knew that my generation had been very successfully indoctrinated with the concept of Indian and India. So I was looking out for an old grandpa to know the unadulterated reality of erstwhile N.E.F.A (North East Frontier Agency). My wish was answered when ...
The MKI variant of the Su30 warplanes were first inducted at Tezpur last year. Since then, the air base was also opened for civil aviation. When four Su30s landed at the base on June 12 last year for a symbolic induction, it was after a gap of more than a year that a fighter operated from the air base after the MIG fighters were moved out of the base.T ...
The North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) on Saturday said that only two per cent of hydro-electricity generation capacity of North-East has been harnessed so far. "Only 2-3 per cent of 70,000 MW power potential of the NE - with ...
To improve air connectivity, the Centre has approved three greenfield airports in the North-east, an official statement said today.
The one at Pakyong in Sikkim is already under construction at a cost of Rs 264 crore, while the other two will be at Itanagar and Cheithu (Nagaland), it said.
Besides, the viability gap funding to Alliance Air for ...
New Delhi, June 25 2010: Indicating the Centre's position on the Naga insurgent outfit NSCN (IM) demand for 'Nagalim' (greater Nagaland), Union Minister for development of North Eastern region (DoNER) BK Handique on Thursday said it would not be possible to change the boundaries of the North Eastern States.
Integration of all Naga-inhabited areas of Ass ...
Guwahati, June 25: The DoNER ministry will consider terminating projects left incomplete even after five years and put the onus of gathering the rest of the funds on the state government concerned.
The ministry, which funds schemes from the non-lapsable central pool of resources, has decided that when projects are inordinately delayed, the state governm ...