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Font size: morungexpress With the DDSC packed to the brim during the Assam - Nagaland match on Sunday, crowds are seen watching from the roof of a nearby building. (Morung Photo) Dimapur | November 8 : Nagaland and Meghalaya topped Group-B to fill the two remaining berths for the semi-final stage of the ongoing 1st North East Dr T Ao Football Tournament on Sunday, November 8 drawing to a close the group stages. Manipur and Tripura are already in the knock-out stage after they beat Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh respectively during their last Group-A games on Saturday.    Playing the last leg of the ... Read Full Story

Font size: The Telegraph Guwahati, November 8 (The Telegraph): Assam police today produced in court Ulfa leaders Chitrabon Hazarika and Sasha Choudhury, partly taking the veil off an undeclared operation that began unfolding earlier this week across the border in Bangladesh. The special operations unit of Assam police booked Hazarika, the “finance secretary” of the outfit, and Choudhury, its “foreign secretary,” on charges of possessing illegal arms and cash. The case was registered with the unit in 1998. Kamrup chief judicial magistrate Robin Phukan remanded the two to 10 days’ police custody. Ulfa has called a 12-hour Assam bandh on Monday demanding that the ... Read Full Story

The United Nations warned Friday that up to three quarters of a million people could be hit by floods and landslides brought about by torrential rainfall in Kenya. "There are fears that up to 750,000 people in Kenya may be affected by flooding and landslides from the enhanced rains caused by El Nino weather phenomenon between October and December," said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. "The rains usually peak in November," she added. Six people have been killed in floods and landslides from recent downpours, and another 4,600 people along the Indian Ocean coast and northeastern ... Read Full Story

Here are two refugee stories, says Joseph Nahas of United Africans of Utah: In the first, a woman is resettled to Utah and five years later she has become a U.S. citizen, can read and write in English, has a job and is planning to buy a house; in the second story, a woman is resettled to Utah and five years later is still on food stamps, speaks broken English, and is still on rental assistance. The scorecard of Utah’s refugee resettlement is full of both successes and failures, and it was with the hope of figuring out how to have more of the ... Read Full Story

A "conspiracy of silence" is stifling debate over the future of people who become displaced through climate change, a top UN official for refugees says. In an interview with AFP at the UN climate talks in Barcelona, Jean-Francois Durieux, in charge of climate change at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said the question "remains taboo." Under 1951 UN statutes, the term "refugee" applies specifically to a victim of violence or persecution, who is then entitled to help and asylum in other countries. But no such status exists for people who are forced from their home by drought, flood, storms and rising sea ... Read Full Story