Smt Chirom Indira has been selected for the prestigious award ''Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017'' for her notable contribution towards the women empowerment, progress of socio-economic conditions of the weaker handloom sector labors. She is wife of Ch. Sanjoy Singh from Thangmeiband Lairenhanjaba Leikai, Manipur. Every year, Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt. of India
As Indian Medical Association has declared January 2 as “black day” for medical practitioners across India, state branch of IMA has also staged a sit-in-protest yesterday at IMA house, Lamphelpat in tandem. Protesters were holding placards that read, “NMC is against poor people NMC is undemocratic”, “NMC is costly education, costly treatment to people we
BAMTECH is the new mobile app recently launched by The South Asia Bamboo Foundation (SABF), Guwahati. This is a first of its kind mobile app in the northeast region to promote Bamboo. This app was officially launched in New Delhi on February 22 during a national seminar on “Emerging Building Materials and Construction Technologies”. This
A senior police official has shared information about the return of a young Kashmiri militant following an appeal of his mother. DGP S P Vaid shared about it in a tweet "Another young boy responding to the appeals of crying mother returned to the fold of family leaving path of violence in the valley. I
After a cardiac arrest, famous bollywood heroine Sridevi passed away on last Saturday night. The 54 year old, beautiful actress was in Dubai to attend a relative’s marriage. She was with her husband Boney Kapoor and younger daughter Khushi at her time of death. Sunday morning, Her brother-in-law Sanjay Kapoor told press in Mumbai, “This
As per the instructions issued by the Department of Telecom, all existing operators need to use 13 digit mobile numbers for all existing Machine-to-Machine customers. This should be done from October 18 onward. However, this should be implemented from first of the July. DoT has also stated a deadline for the completion of this task
On Monday, she created history. Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi did this by becoming the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo. From IAF's Jamnagar base, she did this by flying a MiG-21 "Bison", which has virtually the highest landing and take-off speed in the world - 340 kmph. Before the "Bison", she had
As per a recent report of the census directorate, several languages or dialects in India are believed to be endangered. Officials said that these over 40 languages are heading towards extinction because only few thousand Indians speak them. This report stated that 100 non scheduled and 22 scheduled languages are spoken by a big sized
India, though on a path of development, couldn’t do much to control the out of pocket expenditure for poor pregnant women giving birth to the newborn babies. Although government schemes like Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) has been implemented in 2011, under which pregnant women were allowed to give birth freely in Government hospitals all
It is a proud moment for every Northeastern citizen as two of our own from Northeast India receives special mention in Forbes India ’30 Under 30’ list. The two shining stars are Shiroi Lily Shaiza, currently the Managing Director of ASPORA Nagaland and Dheeraj Singh Moirangthem, the first choice U-17 Indian goalkeeper. Shiroi Lily Shazia
