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India and Myanmar today signed four economic cooperation agreements demonstrating the expanding partnership between the two countries. The agreements were signed in the Myanmarese capital in the presence of the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power and the Myanmar Minister for National Planning and Economic Development, Mr. U Soe Tha. He also called on the Myanmar Minister for Commerce Brig. General Tin Naing Thein and the Minister for Electric Power, U Zaw Min. Full story

Bhubaneswar, June 22: Women in Orissa are lighting up the cancer stick or chewing tobacco more often than their counterparts in other states. Full story

Imphal, June 22: People from the North East India region (majority of them are from the Chin-Kuki-Mizo group) professing Messianic Jews faith, who were once denied citizenship in Israel on the ground of being ?converted' can now apply for Israeli citizenship as per the green signal coming from the authority of Israel recently after several years of its struggle for it. Disclosing this information, the United ... Full story

New Delhi : After announcing a tie-up for bringing iPhone, Bharti Airtel and Apple today extended their partnership to launch the 3G version of iPhone in India later this year, for which booking has already started. Soon customers will be able to purchase iPhone 3G at Airtel Relationship Centers. Details of pricing and availability will be announced at a later date.... Full story

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has declared results of an interview held this year for Civil Services on May 16, 2008. Link below: Full story

Agartala, May 13 (IANS) 'Vision 2020' document, an ambitious poverty alleviation programme for the northeast, was endorsed Tuesday in the plenary session of the North Eastern Council (NEC) here. Full story

SHILLONG, April 23 - The regional governments in the northeast have urged the centre to provide adequate funds for rehabilitating old school buildings to avoid a major tragedy considering that the region is in a high risk seismic zone. Full story

New Delhi - How do you take a train to a place that has no railway tracks? Simple, by air! Barring sparsely used metre gauge branch lines touching its border with Assam at Bhalukpong and Murkokseleng, Arunachal Pradesh has no railway tracks. But that has not stopped the railway ministry — with help from the defence ministry — from planning to airlift a train to Itanagar ... Full story

NEW DELHI: Pulses worth over Rs 1,400 crore imported from Myanmar via Singapore will be shipped directly to Chennai and Kolkata with the completion of the Rs 535-crore Kaladan multi-modal transport project between India and Myanmar. Full story

Shillong (Meghalaya): Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on Saturday (Dec. 1, 2007) laid the foundation stone of the country's seventh Indian Institute of Management (IIM) here. Speaking at the ceremony, the minister said, "The launching of this institute would contribute to the manpower of tomorrow, not only in the northeast, but also in the whole country and abroad." The institute - christened Rajiv Gandhi Indian ... Full story