Garo rebel outfit `sentences` Congress legislator to death

The outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) has again threatened to kill Meghalaya Congress legislator Limison D Sangma for not complying with their extortion demands, police said Monday.

Manipur activist `Iron Lady` Irom Sharmila`s 1000-word poem

A 1000-word "very long" poem, penned by Irom Sharmila forms part of a new book on the activist from Manipur.

Tripura strike Tuesday to protest murders

Opposition parties have called a 12-hour shut-down in Tripura Tuesday to protest the killing of three newspaper employees who were murdered at their office here, a Congress leader said.

Three killed in newspaper office

As it was Sunday afternoon, only a reporter was present at the newspaper office `Gandoot Bhawan`. He fainted on seeing the assailants stabbing the two men on the ground floor and was left unharmed.

Nine N-E climbers scale Mt Everest

It was a `red letter day` for the Indian mountaineering fraternity as nine more climbers from North East India scaled the Mount Everest and raised the tricolor on Saturday.

Mizoram MP for judicial probe into house collapse

The lone Rajya Sabha member from Mizoram Lalhming Liana on Saturday reiterated the demand of his Mizo National Front (MNF) party that a judicial inquiry and not a magisterial inquiry should be constituted.

Northeast railway projects will be delayed

Due to lack of funds, several national railway projects in southern Assam, Tripura and other northeastern states would be delayed by a year, an official said here on Saturday.

Kameng River inundates NH 52 in Arunachal Pradesh

The Noa-Dihing River is also in spate eroding the bank at Padu Nallah and posing a threat to Mahadevpur township.

Tripura registers improvement in literacy rate

Literacy rate in Tripura has risen to 87.22 percent from the previous 73.3 percent, ranking the state fourth in the country, according to the preliminary census report of 2011.

Border trade talks put off with Bangladesh due to `Mahasen`

A high-level talk between India and Bangladesh on setting up of border `haats` (markets) was put off due to tropical storm `Mahasen`.