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In a first, the high-value Lakadong turmeric and ginger powder were shipped to the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, Agriculture Minister Banteidor Lyngdoh said on Wednesday. The Lakadong variety of turmeric originates from the Lakadong area of the West Jaintia Hills district. It is considered one of the best varieties
Two cadres of the proscribed NSCN(IM) were apprehended by the security forces in Arunachal Pradesh”s Changlang district, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. A joint team of the Changlang Police and Assam Rifles arrested one of them from the Rangkatu Tea Estate on June 21, Superintendent of Police Mihin
Around 200 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in West Bengal’s Hooghly district returned to the Trinamool Congress after ‘purifying’ themselves with Gangajal. The party workers claimed that it was a mistake to join BJP. They shaved their heads and sprinkled Gangajal to “atone” for their mistake and returned to the
Massive afforestation drive is on to increase green cover in Assam. The Environment and Forest department has taken up mega plantation drives in different parts of the state, with focus on degraded land. The area covered under afforestation schemes under Assam Project on Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC), Compensatory Afforestation
Milkha Singh was around 15 years old at the time of Partition. When a large frenzied mob arrived on the outskirts of his village, Kot Addu near Multan, families stuck together to protect one another. In an interview with ‘The 1947 Partition Archive’ (May, 2014), Milkha Singh remembers his father