IMPHAL: Amnesty International in a statement today has urged the authorities in Manipur to immediately revoke the arbitrary detention of Jiten Yumnam, a human rights defender, since 14 September 2009.

SHILLONG: Hundreds of car and bike enthusiasts from Meghalaya recently got an opportunity to witness a rally during which vintage cars and bikes, including, Classic Morris, Studebaker, Beetle, Fords, Land Rovers and Jawa bikes were displayed.

NEW DELHI – The Young Mizo Association (YMA), a social organisation in India’s North-eastern state of Mizoram has urged the state government to strictly curb influx of foreigners from neighbouring countries, including Burma.

KOHIMA : Nagaland today occupied prominent space in the diary of Global Environment Facility (GEF) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A GEF-UNDP conceptual programme on “Sustainable land and ecosystem management in shifting cultivation areas of Nagaland for ecological and livelihood security” was allotted to the state. It has been formally launched with the state’s department of Soil & Water Conservation as the implementing partner.

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