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Historical and political perspectives The recent skirmishes along the Assam-Mizoram borders highlight the simmering tensions between the two states dating back to the Colonial era when present day Mizoram was known as Lushai Hills. Thanchungnunga Hnamte thanahnamte@yahoo.com) The recent skirmishes along the Assam-Mizoram borders highlight the simmering tensions between the two states dating back to the Colonial era when present day Mizoram was known as Lushai Hills. Interestingly, the border issues usually tend to get stoked up at a time when elections are on the horizon. There is absolu...

John Hart From left, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, Graham Boyd, executive vice-president of the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina (TGANC); and Jonathan Renn, a Franklin County tobacco farmer and incoming TGANC president, check out an early 1900s Oliver grain drill that Troxler restored. The three are shown at the commissioner’s Browns Summit, N.C. farm. The 2020 crop was the smallest tobacco acreage planted in North Carolina in 150 years. North Carolina tobacco is coming off one of the most challenging years it as ever seen, but there is hope...