Indian folk music is changing rhythm to please the global village. Boatman’s songs and Bihu festival tunes from Assam are being reset to the beats of techno-pop and soft rock, courtesy the East India Company band.
A folk-rock band from the...
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Assam has earned the dubious distinction of being the most corrupt State in the country, on the basis of corruption in 11 vital services. Corruption level was alarming in four other States, as well. The latest India Corruption Study 2007 conducted...
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The Department of Posts has started a pilot project, christened ”Arrow,” in which about 200 post offices would be e-enabled so that these can act as the ‘Window to the World’ for the people in the rural areas.
This project, initiated by the...
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It takes us by surprise that British Prime Minister, Gordan Brown, received this leather jacket when he assumed office. The loving sender was none other than Uncle Sam’s president, George W. Bush! With Brown’s name embroidered on the...
Keeping those class of beauties in mind who have a taste for sophisticated jewelry at throwaway prices, Shirley MacLaine has come up with her own line of jewelry - Chakra Sky! Explaining the designs of this range, she said that the practice of...
If you thought sand is just meant to be used in construction, think again ! A hotel in Weymouth Beach, Dorset,England, was erected with 1000 tonnes of sand , helping hands of four sculptors and a 14 hours of gruelling task for seven days.And if you...
United Liberation Front of Barak Valley (ULFBV) militants are all set to surrender with arms at a ceremony in south Assam’s Hailakandi district before Independence Day.
Hailakandi superintendent of police Bibekanda Das told that the surrender...
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Is Guwahati the site where the ancient kingdom of Kamrupa existed or is it the Meghalaya?
This and many more questions, which are still mired in controversy, could be answered when archaeologists excavate the entire Bhaitbari-Tikrikilla area in West...
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Meghalaya Brand Ambassador for peace and communal harmony Amit Paul today affirmed of being a teetotaller and said reports of his drunken brawl at a bar in Guwahati was “wrong and fabricated”.
“I am a teetotaller and don’t even smoke.
I went...
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Buddhist migrants from Burma working in the Aizawl district of India’s Mizoram state have complained of being pressured to convert to Christianity by their employers and local pastors.
A Burmese migrant working at a local fabric factory in Aizawl...
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