23/05/2010 17:37
The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now
By Guy Adams in Los Angeles.
Sunday, 23 May 2010
Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of...
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07/05/2010 02:44
By WILLIAM BOOT.
BANGKOK—Choices are rapidly dwindling if you want to live in a nuclear-free country in the East Asia-Pacific Rim region.
New Zealand, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei are your options—everywhere else is either operating, researching or planning nuclear power.
While the Western countries...
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07/05/2010 02:39
By Nick Clark
The technology giant Google has confirmed plans to launch its digital bookstore over the summer, which will bring the group into direct conflict with Amazon and Apple.
Chris Palma, Google's manager for strategic partner development, said that the launch of Google Editions...
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07/05/2010 01:19
In north-east India grows a pepper so fiery that the nation's military could soon be using it as a weapon. So what does it taste like? Andrew Buncombe gives it a try..
Friday, 30 April 2010.
In a covered market in the city of Imphal, the air pungent with fresh and fermented produce, a...
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07/05/2010 00:43
Milhiem is an ethnic group inhabiting North East India and Myanmar. They belong to the old kuki clans Of Manipur and recognised under the Kuki-Chin-Mizo group. They Believe their proginator come from a cave and they refer it as Khul or khur. Their history is based on oral tradition, folklore and...
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13/08/2009 01:27
Repeal Law That Gives the Military License for Violence:
(New York) - The Manipur state government in northeastern India should act to end a cycle of unpunished violence, including killings, by security forces and armed groups, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch said that...
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27/07/2009 18:55
By LAl Lupho.
In view of the fact that most of us are not aware of our true genealogical background; and we are eager to know it and hitherto to the fact that our local elders who depend upon words of mouth from the memory bank of community elders here is a brief account of the Hangmi pedigree....
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29/04/2009 18:47
By: G.S. Oinam
Today, the kuki are hardly remembered as the same people who had played prominent roles at various juncture of history. They are the people whose past had been a story of warlords, Chieftains, heroic struggles and sacrifice. They are perhaps denied the place they deserve in...
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25/04/2009 19:53
By:Sominthang Doungel.
There is it group of people who have never been able to find out their nomenclature by which they can collectively identify themselves as an ethnic group.
Prior to 1937 these people lived in Indo-Burma.
However, in 1937 Burma was separated from India and the...
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12/11/2008 21:26
Alexander Lupho *
Nation : "A large aggregate of people united by a common descent, culture (or) language inhabiting a particular state or territory."
Defines My concise Oxford english Dictionary, which is in accordance to what I believe and is as practice in the world over. And true to...