| Manipur reels under acute power shortage |
From Hiyang Athouba
IMPHAL, Aug 7: The Electricity Department in Manipur said to be the den of corruption has been much in the news. It is a little concealed fact that the officials construct palatial buildings, acquire properties disproportionate to their known income and even a class four employees owns brand new cars. In Manipur's context the befuddled employees have not found it nec... |
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| Bomb hoax creates panic in two newspaper offices of Manipur |
From Our Special Correspondent
IMPHAL, Aug 7: Some persons identifying themselves as insurgents of the Military Defence Force (MDF) today rang up two newspaper offices to inform the alarmed journalists and staff that bombs had been planted. If they value their lives they should scoot before the bombs explode, they were told. Naturally the employees and reporters fled since there have be... |
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| Nagaland BJP stages dharna |
DIMAPUR, Aug 7: The Nagaland state BJP unit staged a dharna outside its party office at Dimapur on Tuesday protesting against the insensitive and complacent attitude of the UPA Government towards drought relief and the continuation of an anti-farmer fertilizer policy.
Around 60 party workers took part in the dharna. The State Executive meeting was held in the presence of Prasanth Arora... |
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| Grenade Explosion: four sustain injuries |
From our Special Correspondent
IMPHAL, Aug 7: At least four persons sustained serious shrapnel injuries when a China made hand grenade exploded in the house of a Gram Panchayat Pradhan ahead of the panchayat elections. The explosion took place at 7:45 last night at the house of Wahengbam Brajagopal, the pradhan of Sagolband gram panchayat. The four injured persons were rushed to the hospital.... |
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| Tea production declining in organized sector in India |
Agartala, Aug 7: Tea production in the organized sector is declining in India due to ageing bushes and little investment and the country may have lost 50 million kg of tea in the past 10 years.
At the same time it is rising in small holdings which account for nearly 28 per cent of the total tea cultivation area and 26 per cent of the country’s total production.
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