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Manipur CM inaugurates 2 sports facilities, extends wishes to contingent for North East Games

IMPHAL — Manipur has faced various challenges in different phases but solution comes with collective efforts, said Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Friday while reiterating the government’s firm stand to protect the integrity of Manipur despite el...

15 Mar 2024

RPF makes several arrests, recovers 24 railway tickets

DIMAPUR — The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) apprehended at least five persons and recovered 24 railway tickets worth more than INR 78,000 multiple locations while conducting checks in the zone between March 9 an...

15 Mar 2024

INDIA bloc yet to reach agreement on seat-sharing in Tripura

AGARTALA — The INDIA bloc is yet to agree on fighting the Lok Sabha polls in unison in Tripura while the ruling BJP has already announced its candidates for the state’s two seats. Though the Congress nominated its state party chief President ...

15 Mar 2024

AAP withdraws Guwahati candidate, challenges Congress to take similar step on two LS seats

GUWAHATI — The AAP on Friday withdrew its candidate from the Guwahati Lok Sabha seat to stop the division of Opposition votes. However, the party also threw a “challenge” to the Congress to withdraw candidates from two other seats where the AAP...

15 Mar 2024

NEIGRIHMS professor granted patent for multifunctional autopsy workstation

DIMAPUR — Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Science (NEIGRIHMS), Prof. AJ Patowary, has been granted a patent for developing a multifunctional autopsy workstation. ...

15 Mar 2024

Assam opposition bloc in soup after TMC contends for four seats

GUWAHATI — The opposition bloc in Assam faced another setback after Trinamool Congress (TMC) announced candidates for four Lok Sabha seats in the state. Sushmita Dev, TMC leader, told IANS: “The seat sharing talks failed in Assam due to the Congr...

15 Mar 2024

Imna Along calls on Manipur Governor; underscores need to restore peace

IMPHAL — Nagaland Minister of Higher Education and Tourism, Temjen Imna Along called on Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey at the Raj Bhavan in Imphal on Thursday and discussed a wide range of issues pertaining to the ongoing ethnic conflict and resto...

14 Mar 2024

Cases of HIV/AIDS rising alarmingly in Tripura, 150-200 persons being infected each month: CM

AGARTALA — Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Thursday expressed concern over the alarming rise in HIV/AIDS cases in the state with 150 to 200 persons being infected by the contagious disease per month and also red-flagged the growing use of intr...

14 Mar 2024

2 ‘missing’ Agartala boys traced in Mumbai to be brought back today

AGARTALA — A two-member Tripura Police team on Wednesday left for Mumbai to bring back two minor students of a city-based school who had earlier left home for the Maharashtra capital with dreams of “becoming someone before they return”,...

14 Mar 2024

2 important UNLF(P) members, including self-styled army chief, held in Manipur, say Officials

IMPHAL — Two “important” members of the banned United National Liberation Front (P) have been arrested in a joint operation carried out by the Manipur Police, NIA and CRPF, officials said on Wednesday. They said Thokchom Thoiba, a self-...

13 Mar 2024

New 218 km Assam-Arunachal railway line project discussed at high-level meet

NEW DELHI — The 67th meeting of the inter-ministerial Network Planning Group evaluated two projects from the Ministry of Railways which include a new broad gauge line project covering 218 km across Doom Dooma (Assam) to Pasighat (Arunachal Pradesh)...

13 Mar 2024

BJP names all 60 candidates for Arunachal Assembly polls, CM Khandu to contest from Mukto

NEW DELHI/ITANAGAR —The BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC) on Wednesday announced all 60 candidates for the upcoming elections to the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly. Chief Minister Pema Khandu will contest again from the Mukto seat, Deputy Ch...

13 Mar 2024

Will resign if one person who has not applied for NRC gets citizenship: Himanta

GUWAHATI — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that he will be the first to resign if one person, who has not applied for National Register of Citizens (NRC), gets citizenship. His comment comes after protests erupted across As...

12 Mar 2024

Tripura: Congress, CPI-M and TMP ‘oppose’ CAA rules notification

AGARTALA — The opposition CPI-M and Congress along with Tipra Motha Party (TMP) in Tripura on Monday criticised the Central government over the notification of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules. Leaders from the CPI-M and the Congress claim...

12 Mar 2024

Modi to flag off New Vande Bharat Express between New Jalpaiguri and Patna

DIMAPUR — Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to flag off 10 new Vande Bharat Express trains across the country, including one for New Jalpaiguri-Patna-New Jalpaiguri route which will benefit the people of West Bengal, Bihar and adjacent areas....

11 Mar 2024

Manipur CM launches Imphal-Ukhrul helicopter service

IMPHAL — A helicopter service along the Imphal-Ukhrul-Imphal route was formally launched at a virtual event held at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Monday. Addressing the event, Chief Minister N Biren Singh, who also opened District Trans...

11 Mar 2024

Manipur will soon return to normalcy, says Chief Minister

IMPHAL — Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Monday said that the state will soon return to peace and normalcy with the grace of god. He was speaking during the welfare benefits distribution programme of Manipur Building and Other Construction ...

11 Mar 2024

Bodoland People’s Front to contest polls alone in Assam

GUWAHATI — The Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), an erstwhile ally of the Congress in Assam, on Monday announced that it will fight the upcoming Lok Sabha polls alone. “Our party will field candidates in two Lok Sabha seats in Assam –...

11 Mar 2024

GNF appeals for caution amid Kezoltsa dispute

DIMAPUR — The Global Naga Forum (GNF) has issued a public appeal to the Southern Angami Public Organisation (SAPO) and Angami Public Organisation (APO) as well as the Mao Council regarding the ongoing dispute over the Kezoltsa area, urging for ‘e...

11 Mar 2024

Assam govt to introduce Meitei script in educational institutions

GUWAHATI — Assam government has decided to introduce Meitei script in educational institutions across the state. The decision was made in a state Cabinet meeting that happened late on Sunday night. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma chaired the mee...

11 Mar 2024

Never dreamt a rally would lead to violent attacks: Manipur CM

IMPHAL —Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday said that no one had thought that a rally against the Meitei community’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status would lead to violent attacks. Singh’s comment comes months after an ethnic s...

10 Mar 2024

MBB Airport to get international status soon: Tripura CM

AGARTALA — Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Sunday said that the state’s Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) airport would soon be declared an international airport. The Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) airport in Guwahati and the Bi...

10 Mar 2024

Despite ethnic strife, development initiatives must be pushed forward in Manipur: CM Biren Singh

IMPHAL — Amid Manipur grappling with ethnic strife for over ten months, Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Sunday asserted that development initiatives must be pushed forward, acknowledging the adverse impact on the populace across various domains. I...

10 Mar 2024

‘Increasingly disturbed’ situation in different parts of Northeast, says Congress

NEW DELHI — As Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Assam’s Kaziranga National Park, the Congress on Saturday attacked the Centre over the “increasingly disturbed” situation in different parts of the Northeast, and asked why the P...

09 Mar 2024

‘Maitri Setu’ between Tripura and Bangladesh to be operational soon: Tripura CM

AGARTALA — Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said on Saturday that the India-Bangladesh ‘Maitri Setu’ (friendship bridge) connecting the border town of Sabroom in Tripura with Ramgarh in Bangladesh will be operational soon. Prime Minister Naren...

09 Mar 2024
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