The First ever Indian Film Festival Mizoram opened to a full house amongst sheer excitement and grandeur at Vanapa Hall in Aizawl on 23rd January 2018 The Festival jointly organised by the Government of Mizoram and its State Partners-Innovations India Advertising & Events Pvt. Ltd. which was inaugurated by the honourable Chief Minister of Mizoram, Sh. Lal Thanhawla. The event saw the presence of a number of top Film Makers from India and abroad, Ministers, Govt. Officials, Miss Mizoram, Fashion Icons and crème de la crème of Mizoram.
The First Indian Fire Service Games got under way on 2nd February under the banner of Indian Fire Service Games Association. Prakash Mishra , IPS (Retd.) Director General Fire Service, Civil Defence and Home Guards inaugurated the games at Divisional Sports Complex, Mankapur Nagpur.
Total 1242 participants from 24 states and 40 public sector undertakings were featured in this three day event. The sports event included atheletics, football, badminton, volleyball, table tennis, ultimate fire fighters alive, Horizontal rope rescue competition, Pump drill including 4 persons etc.
To say that Americans, in general, are very fond of coffee just as Indians, in general, are chai (tea) lovers is a sweeping opinion which however has tremendous amount of truth. It is hard to imagine an Indian town without a tea shop. The same can be said about all North American towns. An American town without a Dunkin Donuts (American global Donut Company and Coffee House) and a Canadian town without a Tim Hortons (Canadian global coffee and donut restaurant) are unimaginable. Needless to say, there are many other fast food eateries like McDonalds, Swiss Chalet, Burger King, Wendy’s, Starbucks, Dairy Queen, Pizza Hut, etc. in these countries, but I just want to refer to these two as representative restaurants to juxtapose them with our Indian fast-food shop counterparts. The idea is to highlight the scope for improvement with our business ideas and to trigger local young minds to take these enterprises seriously and tap into the potential they offer. It is about time that we revisit the concept of a Chiya-dokan/Chai Ki Dukan (tea shop) and re-strategize the enterprise to make it more attractive, organized, hygienic, futuristic or ‘up to the minute’ as they say.
Patanjali is coming up with as many as five institutes where Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will invest in Nagaland in a big way. The projects include a Para-Medical and Nursing College, Management College, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ayurvedic College and Engineering College. Of the five projects announced, except for the Engineering College, which is located at Nuiland in Dimapur district, the rest of the projects are in Punglwa, which is the Chief Minister’s home district Peren.
“Baba Ramdev” the Yog Guru has established the Patanjali Ayurved Limited in 2006 along with Acharya Balkrishna with the objective of establishing science of Ayurveda in accordance and coordination with the latest technology and ancient wisdom. Manufacturing units and headquarters are located in the industrial area of Haridwar while the registered office is located at Delhi. Patanjali Ayurved produces products in the categories of personal care and food also manufacturing division has over 300 medicines for treating a range of ailments and body conditions from common cold to chronic paralysis. Patanjali had also announced to enter the textile manufacturing centre. The company is reported to manufacture not only traditional clothes such as Kurta Payjama but also popular western clothes such as jeans.
Chief Minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang, expressed his exhilaration in the laying of the foundation stones and conveyed his gratitude to Acharya Balkrishna and Ramdev for their interest in these projects. He said the decision to start five professional colleges by Patanjali Yogpeeth would go a long way in bringing quality education to Nagaland and help local youth acquire skills that would enable them to find sustainable livelihoods. He said that these five institutions will become centres of excellence.
He added “The institution of Patanjali has become a household name in just about 12 years because its products have gained popularity across the country and beyond. Nagaland has a population with 60% below the age of 25, who are hard-working and have the ability to dream. This initiative of the Government of Nagaland wherein government will provide land and the Patanjali will invest in the project has the potentially being a model public-private-partnership and centres of excellence not only in Nagaland but in the entire Northeast.
Rashmi Mizar
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The title of this essay is both, ironic and paradoxical and the ambiguity is meant to be so as much as my observation goes which stems from the market place to the many farms that dot the hills around this beautiful place that we inhabit and call our home. In the old days when we were growing up, the market places were small, vegetables were organic and fresh, and foodstuff was cheap. I clearly remember being sent to the evening market at Laitumkhrah with twenty or fifty rupees and coming home with a bag full of produce which included fish and sometimes meat. Nowadays a bagful of shopping is, perhaps, five hundred rupees or more and most of the vegetables are not fresh, over ripe, non-organic and imported from other states – not local!
She often makes noise in political space and in many cases she wins the game as a simple, straight forward and energetic politician of India. But not all the time, she could convert her outbursts in her favour and it backfired. Here is one such development, where she wanted to be a saviour of Bengali people, but ended up as a promoter of minority vote banks. But her appeasement policy towards the religious community in West Bengal was never a secret for the people of India and the talkative Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already earned the reputation in switching over the minority vote banks from the Communist Party to her Trinamool Congress. Now perhaps it is her turn to continue soothing the vote banks. So when Assam released the first draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC) on the midnight of 31 December 2017, Ms Banerjee found a reason to react in a negative light looking at the delicate Bengali-Assamese relationship.
Tripura Assembly Election will take place on February 18, this year. Will the Communist Party of India (Marxist) retain power for the fifth time around, or it will be a replica of what had happened to the party in West Bengal in 2011 assembly poll, in which the CPI (M)-led Left Front had to face the ignominious defeat at the hands of Trinamul Congress led by Mamata Banerjee? This tiny north-east state has become a citadel for the Left, which is likely to return to power for the eight successive times around.
The beleaguered Congress party has at last woken up from its slumber as the High Command has shaken up the election Machinery headed by the new party President Celestine Lyngdoh replacing D.D.Lapang who was a five time Chief Minister representing Nongpoh constituency being the hub of Ri-Bhoi District. D.D. Lapang has however been included in the thirteen member congress election committee including the Lok Sabha representative Vincent Pala and also Roytre C. Laloo who has refrained himself in contesting the polls from Jowai constituency. The committee has in all thirteen members including Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and other members representing the two region of the state, the Garo Hills and the Khasi-Jaintia Hills.
National People’s Party (NPP) is marching ahead with other national parties, as inspite of declaration of election on 27 February 2018 in the state of Meghalaya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has failed to finalize its list of candidates (upto 2 February 2018), thus creating confusion in the minds of the voters on one hand and making its candidates nervous on the other. NPP on the other side is gaining momentum.
National People’s Party (NPP) is marching ahead with other national parties, as inspite of declaration of election on 27 February 2018 in the state of Meghalaya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has failed to finalize its list of candidates (upto 2 February 2018), thus creating confusion in the minds of the voters on one hand and making its candidates nervous on the other. NPP on the other side is gaining momentum.