Wednesday, November 20, 2024
SHILLONG — The hunger strike by students of North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), the northeast’s oldest Central varsity here, entered its 13th day on Sunday as the agitating students stood firm on their demand to remove “incompetent...
17 Nov 2024
Shah expected to hold another detailed meeting with top officers on Monday NEW DELHI — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday reviewed the security situation in Manipur and directed top officials to take all possible steps to ensure peace in the N...
17 Nov 2024
RANGIA (ASSAM) — A local leader of All Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU) was stabbed to death by a person over a petty issue in Kamrup district, police said on Sunday. The incident took place at the youth festival of Brahmaputra Valley A...
17 Nov 2024
Churachandpur/Guwahati — The funeral of 10 Kuki-Zo youths, who were killed in an alleged gunfight with CRPF, will not be conducted till their post-mortem reports were handed over to the families, a leading organisation representing the community sa...
17 Nov 2024
IMPHAL — Irate mobs set fire to the residences of three more BJP legislators, one of whom is a senior minister, and a Congress MLA in various districts of Imphal Valley even as security forces foiled the attempt of agitators to storm the ancestral ...
17 Nov 2024
IMPHAL — Hundreds of people protested in different parts of Imphal valley on Saturday after three bodies suspected to be of six persons missing were found from Jiribam district. The protesters mostly women blocked the main roads in Kwakeithel area ...
16 Nov 2024
SHILLONG — Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Thursday attended the seaplane demonstration held in Umiam Lake in Shillong. The event was organised by the Meghalaya government’s transport department in collaboration with the Union governmen...
14 Nov 2024
NEW DELHI/IMPHAL — mid the escalating violence, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday reimposed the stringent Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 six police station areas of five Manipur districts, including the recent violence-hit J...
14 Nov 2024
IMPHAL — Manipur BJP chief Adhikarimayum Sharda Devi on Thursday urged the abductors to release the three women and three children, who were reportedly kidnapped by the militants in Jiribam district on November 11. Terming the abduction of six memb...
14 Nov 2024
IMPHAL — A 24-hour total shutdown imposed by 13 civil society organisations in Manipur to protest the government’s alleged inability to contain the escalating violence in the state since Saturday (November 9) crippled normal life in the state on ...
13 Nov 2024
NEW DELHI — The Centre has rushed 20 additional CAPF companies comprising about 2,000 personnel to Manipur in the wake of fresh attacks and law and order issues in the state, official sources said Wednesday. The sources told PTI that the Ministry o...
13 Nov 2024
AGARTALA/GUWAHATI — The Vande Bharat Express trains would be extended up to Assam’s Silchar and Tripura capital Agartala within the next few months, Rajya Sabha member from Tripura Rajib Bhattacharjee said here on Wednesday. Bhattacharjee, also t...
13 Nov 2024
SHILLONG — The North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) on Tuesday urged Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to intervene in the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) crisis and sack Vice-Chancellor P S Shukla as demanded by the studen...
12 Nov 2024
CHURACHANPUR — Schools and colleges were closed, markets were shut, and vehicles remained off the roads as the hill areas of Manipur witnessed a total shutdown on Tuesday. The 13-hour shutdown, which began at 5 am, was called by the Kuki-Zo Council...
12 Nov 2024
GUWAHATI — The stage is set for the by-elections in five assembly constituencies in Assam with polling personnel leaving for their respective booths on Tuesday, a senior official said. The polling will take place on Wednesday in Dholai, Sidli, Bong...
12 Nov 2024
IMPHAL — Eleven suspected militants were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Monday, officials said. Two CRPF personnel also sustained injuries during the heavy exchange of fire that happened at Jakurado...
11 Nov 2024
IMPHAL — At least ten tribal organisations in Manipur including the influential Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) on Sunday once again urged the Centre not to fence the India-Myanmar border and not to scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR). T...
10 Nov 2024
GUWAHATI — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday took aim at the Congress party for the pre-poll violence in the Samaguri Assembly constituency, which is heading for by-elections next week. He claimed that the Opposition party which do...
10 Nov 2024
GUWAHATI/AGARTALA — Supply of essential commodities, food grains, and transport fuel have been disrupted in some northeastern states as the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) engineers and workers are repairing the damage to the railway track in Assa...
09 Nov 2024
IMPHAL — The Tripartite Talks between the Centre, United Naga Council (UNC), and government of Manipur—resumed last month in New Delhi after a gap of nearly five years—is scheduled to be held again on November 13, at Senapati district headquart...
09 Nov 2024
GUWAHATI — The issue of ‘dynastic politics’ has taken the centre-stage in Assam by-elections with both the ruling alliance and the main opposition party fielding candidates from political families, and the parties engaging in a sparring...
09 Nov 2024
IMPHAL — At least eight houses were burnt after the armed militants attacked a tribal-dominated village in Manipur’s Jiribam district, police said on Friday. A police official in Imphal said that armed guerrillas attacked the Hmar tribal-inha...
08 Nov 2024
GUWAHATI/AGARTALA — The Central government and various central intelligence agencies have alerted the northeastern states about the activities of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and its associate outfits, officials said on Thursday. A top p...
07 Nov 2024
AIZAWL — The northeastern state of Mizoram has witnessed a significant rise in cyber-crime or financial fraud, with approximately duping over INR 8 crore in the first nine months of this year, police officials said. Mizoram police cyber crime offic...
05 Nov 2024
ITANAGAR — Arunachal Pradesh Police registered an FIR against artist Kon Waii Son for publicly killing a chicken by slitting its throat and then drinking the bird’s blood during a recent performance in Itanagar, officials said on Tuesday. Police ...
05 Nov 2024
