Thursday, April 11, 2024
IMPHAL — Senior Spokesperson of BJP Manipur M Asnikumar Singh, who is the in-charge of II-Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency, chaired a pivotal joint meeting of the party’s workers at its headquarters in Imphal on Monday, to deliberate on s...
08 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — More than 50 freshwater fish experts from Northeast India, Bhutan and Germany have started their final assessment of about 500 varieties of Himalayan fish to categorise the species following the IUCN Red List categories and criteria at the...
08 Apr 2024
AIZAWL — A total of 16 people, including six from Myanmar, were apprehended in Mizoram, an official said on Sunday, adding a huge amount of Indian and Myanmarese currencies were recovered from them. An Assam Rifles official said that acting on an i...
07 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — Over 24,500 eligible voters, housed in relief camps in ethnic violence-hit Manipur, will exercise their franchise at special polling stations in the two-phase elections for the state’s two Lok Sabha seats, officials said on Sunday. E...
07 Apr 2024
ITANAGAR — Meghalaya Chief Minister and National People’s Party (NPP) chief Conrad K. Sangma on Sunday said that his party is a partner of the NDA but when it comes to the issues of the northeast’s people and the indigenous communities,...
07 Apr 2024IMPHAL — A bank official, who was on the run after reportedly stealing about INR 2 crore from a State Bank of India (SBI) branch in Manipur, was arrested in New Delhi by a special crime branch team of Delhi police in coordination with Manipur polic...
06 Apr 2024
Aizawl/Imphal/Shillong — The Election Commission (EC) has undertaken a massive campaign in all the northeastern states to increase voter turnout in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Except for Mizoram, the voter turnout was much higher in northeast...
06 Apr 2024
GUWAHATI — Assam Police have dismissed a former Superintendent of Police (SP) from service for “gross malpractice” and disqualified him from future employment, Director General of Police, G.P. Singh, said on Saturday. Taking to X, Singh said, ...
06 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — Given the over 11-month-long ethnic strife being witnessed in Manipur, campaigning for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the state is significantly subdued this time, with the political parties and the candidates yet to organise large pu...
06 Apr 2024
GUWAHATI — Courting controversy, Assam BJP Minister, Jayanta Mallabaruah on Saturday called state Congress chief, Bhupen Borah, a “joker” and asserted that he is looking to join the BJP once the Lok Sabha elections are over. Mallabaruah told IA...
06 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — Preparations for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls is in progress in violence-hit Churachandpur with the second round of training for polling personnel, second randomisation and commissioning of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)/Voter Verifiable P...
05 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — The Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) on Friday released its election manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha election in the presence of the representatives of INDIA bloc allies at Congress Bhavan in Imphal. MPCC President K Meghacha...
05 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — With an objective to encourage electors, particularly the youth, to cast their votes in a free and fair manner, and without any fear of external factors, Chief Electoral Officer(CEO) Manipur Pradeep Kumar Jha launched a signature campaign ...
05 Apr 2024
AIZAWL — Mizoram Chief Minister and Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) President Lalduhoma on Friday reiterated that his party would not ally either with the BJP-led NDA and the Congress-led INDIA bloc. Addressing party workers, he said that the Z...
05 Apr 2024DIMAPUR — The Poumai community on Friday unanimously reaffirmed to extend its fullest support to Kho John, Independent candidate for the -Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency, in the upcoming Lok Sabha election to be held on April 19 and 26. Th...
05 Apr 2024DIMAPUR — The Chairperson of Railway Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Jaya Varma Sinha, on Friday took stock of the ongoing Sivok – Rangpo Rail Project (SRRP) by inspecting the lining works of Tunnel No. T – 1, T – 7 and T – 8. She ...
05 Apr 2024
JORHAT — A Nepali woman tourist has alleged that she was molested by a mob in Assam’s Jorhat district for purportedly dressing in man’s clothing. The police have registered a case in this regard and initiated an investigation now. ̶...
05 Apr 2024
GUWAHATI — A 55-year-old woman surrendered before the police in Assam’s Dibrugarh district after she allegedly killed her 35-year-old son after reportedly facing abuses from the latter repeatedly, officials said on Friday. The incident took place...
05 Apr 2024
ITANAGAR — The security forces confiscated over INR 5.48 crore in cash in the three weeks since the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into force in poll-bound Arunachal Pradesh, where simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the Assembly would be...
05 Apr 2024
AGARTALA — The Election Commission has suspended a Special Police Officer (SPO) in the West Tripura Parliamentary constituency for participating in election campaigns, violating the model code of conduct, officials said on Friday. An election offic...
05 Apr 2024
SHILLONG — BJP Minister in Meghalaya A.L. Hek has dismissed the allegations against the National People’s Party (NPP) that the latter has damaged the party’s prospect in the state by forcing them not to field candidates in the Lok Sabha polls. ...
05 Apr 2024
GUWAHATI — Assam Congress President Bhupen Borah has filed aINR 10 crore defamation suit against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday. The case was filed before a session judge in Kamrup Metro district. According to the complaint, Chief M...
04 Apr 2024
AGARTALA — A total of 18 candidates, including two women, are in the fray for Tripura’s two Lok Sabha seats but the main contest is expected to be between the candidates of the ruling BJP and INDIA bloc. In the 2019 parliamentary elections, t...
04 Apr 2024
AGARTALA — An Indian villager was killed and another injured after the BSF fired to disperse a “mob of attackers” along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura’s Sepahijala district, officials said on Thursday. A Border Security Fo...
04 Apr 2024
GUWAHATI — Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, is set to kick off his poll campaign in Assam on April 8 and the state unit of the BJP has been preparing to showcase its strength during the rally. MLA and BJP’s candidate in Sonitpur Lok Sabha seat, Ra...
04 Apr 2024
