Baridua(Meghalaya), June 26: Northeast India has entered one of medicine’s biggest arenas after a USTM scientist co-authored a major global health study in _The Lancet Infectious Diseases_, a journal with an impact factor of 31.0.   Dr. Yugal Kishore Mohanta, Assistant Professor in Applied Biology...

Shillong, June 26: With 677 government schoolteacher posts lying vacant and 31,000 MTET-qualified candidates waiting, the JNC Western Zone on Wednesday urged Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui to release recruitment ads immediately or risk losing a generation of teachers.   Led by President Hamehi Bamon, the...

Shillong (Meghalaya), June 26: A Critically Endangered Chinese Pangolin and an injured Asian Palm Civet are back in the forests of Meghalaya after weeks of care, with wildlife officials releasing both into Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary on Wednesday.   The pangolin was rescued by Nongpoh Wildlife...

Guwahati, (Assam) June 26: Suman Kalyan Dutta, one of the most respected names in the North East rock circuit and a tireless champion of Assam’s western music scene, died today at his residence in Guwahati. He was 59 and had been suffering from acute gastric...

New Delhi, June 25: The Congress on Thursday cornered the Centre over the status of passports as proof of citizenship, demanding an official clarification after an MEA official described it as primarily a travel document.   “Under the Passport Act, only bonafide Indian citizens get...