-The Economic Times Militants lobbed a grenade at a Food Corporation of India (FCI) godown at Sangaiporou area in Imphal West district but no casualty was reported, official sources said today. The Militants lobbed the grenade at the godown at around 9 pm yesterday. The godown was guarded by central para military forces at Sangaiporou, about 7 km from here. The officer in charge of nearby Lamphel police station along with police personnel...
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Meghalaya block hits job target by Andrew W Lyndoh
The Samanda community and rural development block has achieved the unique distinction of 99.97 person days per household and become the first in the state to provide 100 man days for each registered household under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). As many as 149 out of 151 village employment councils achieved the target. Samanda is near Williamnagar, the district headquarters of East Garo Hills, and is about 325km from...
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The district that lost the highest number of people to militancy in Jammu and Kashmir appears to be making up for the loss through a baby boom. The provisional findings of the 2011 census show that Kupwara has the highest proportion of children aged up to six years among all the 627 districts in the country. The figures reveal that 22.5 per cent of Kupwara’s population is six years old or less...
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A few helpless spectators of injustice dived into past pain and picked out poignant personal tales at a national convention to understand if the Right to Information Act can help them turn back and undo a few wrongs. V. Narzary was one such youth who came all the way from the Bodo belt in Assam to ask experts whether he could revisit, through the RTI Act, a case where the army...
More »Human Rights Watch Report: BSF killing with impunity on Bangladesh borders
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel routinely gun down cattle smugglers and other civilians crossing the border with Bangladesh despite negligible evidence of any crime, says Human Rights Watch (HRW) from America.The New York-based rights group disclosed this in its 81-page report titled `Trigger Happy: Excessive Use of Force by Indian Troops at the Bangladesh Border” released on the eve of Human Rights Day (December 10).“The BSF - responsible for...
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