Wednesday, November 20, 2024
GUWAHATI — Assam Minister Pijush Hazarika on Sunday claimed that the BJP-led alliance will win all five seats going to bypolls next month. He told reporters here, “We already have MLAs in four out five seats where the bypolls are due in November....
20 Oct 2024
IMPHAL — In a fresh attack, suspected Kuki militants made a gun and bomb attack near a village police station in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Saturday, police said. A senior police official in Imphal said that there were no casualties in t...
19 Oct 2024
GUWAHATI/ITANAGAR — Heroin, smuggled from Myanmar, worth over INR 6.40 crore was seized and three persons were arrested in two separate operations by the police personnel in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, officials said. Police officials sa...
19 Oct 2024
AIZAWL — Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma on Thursday said that his cabinet has affirmed that prices of petrol and diesel, which were hiked on September 1, will not be reduced. The chief minister’s remark came amid protests by commercial vehi...
17 Oct 2024
GUWAHATI — Eight coaches of the Agartala-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express derailed at Dibalong station in Assam’s Dima Hasao district on Thursday afternoon, Northeast Frontier Railway officials said. There were no reports of any fatality or ma...
17 Oct 2024
IMPHAL — Manipur Water Resources Minister Awangbow Newmai, who attended the first-ever meeting on the state’s ethnic violence in New Delhi on Wednesday said here that there would be more meetings and talks involving Meitei, Kuki and Naga leaders ...
16 Oct 2024
IMPHAL — The Kuki-Zo tribal community in Manipur remained firm for a separate administration like the Union Territory with a Legislative Assembly exclusively for the tribals similar to the Union Territory of Puducherry. Tribal leaders said on Wedne...
16 Oct 2024
NEW DELHI/IMPHAL — The all-important meeting to find a way out to resolve the over 17-month-long ethnic strife in Manipur was held in New Delhi on Tuesday, sources said. Sources said that Ministers and MLAs belonging to the Meitei, Kuki and Naga co...
15 Oct 2024
DIMAPUR — All roads in Manipur lead to Naamai Zho this season as people of all ages, young and old, flock to this scenic site to witness cosmos flowers of varied colours that come into full bloom in autumn. A sprawling picturesque meadow situated i...
14 Oct 2024
GUWAHATI — The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a constituent of Assam’s ruling NDA, observed its 40th foundation day on Monday by reaffirming its commitment to regionalism. ”Each member of the AGP has been committed to the principles of regionali...
14 Oct 2024
RANCHI — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said the seat-sharing arrangement among NDA partners for the assembly elections in Jharkhand was “almost final”, and the first list of candidates would be announced within 48 h...
14 Oct 2024
GUWAHATI — Drugs worth nearly INR 4.5 crore have been seized and four persons were arrested from Karimganj district of Assam on Sunday, a senior official said. According to Karimganj Superintendent of Police Partha Protim Das, who led the operation...
13 Oct 2024
GUWAHATI — At least five inmates, accused in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case, escaped from Assam’s Morigaon district Jail on Friday, officials said. The inmates were identified as Saifuddin, Jiyarul, Nur Islam, Mafi...
11 Oct 2024
GUWAHATI — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has officially taken over the probe of 41 cases of the online stock trading scam registered across the state. “To ensure a fair...
08 Oct 2024
IMPHAL — Manipur Congress president K. Meghachandra Singh on Monday ‘failed’ to appear before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with an investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA). A senior Congress fu...
07 Oct 2024
SHILLONG — Bodies of two children were found in a septic tank pit in the North Garo Hills district on Monday, taking the toll due to the flood in Meghalaya to 17, officials said. The victims, identified as Silarin Marak (8) and Tangme R Marak (3), ...
07 Oct 2024
GUWAHATI — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma handed over appointment letters to 385 youths in the health and education sectors on Monday, claiming that the government has already exceeded its election promise. At an official function, Sarma ...
07 Oct 2024
GUWAHATI — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday asserted that the government has taken a big leap towards eradicating child marriage with the launch of a financial support initiative — Nijut Moina scheme — to help the educ...
06 Oct 2024
SHILLONG — At least 10 people died, including seven of a family, in rain-induced flashfloods that ravaged Meghalaya’s South Garo Hills district in the past 24 hours, officials said. Incessant rainfall has triggered landslides in Gasuapara reg...
06 Oct 2024
IMPHAL — The ban on internet services in the territorial jurisdiction of Manipur’s Ukhrul district—which came into effect at 1.20 pm on October 2 after a confrontation between two villages, Hunphun and Hungpung, turned violent over a land d...
05 Oct 2024
The state government has set up 39 co-districts in Assam GUWAHATI — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday launched co-districts with an aim to decentralise administrative power from the district headquarters to the sub-divisional lev...
05 Oct 2024
IMPHAL — The death toll from the violence that erupted in Manipur’s Ukhrul town on October 2 climbed to four after one of the injured persons succumbed to the wounds on Thursday, sources said. The deceased has been identified as YR Pamreiyo o...
03 Oct 2024
SHILLONG — Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Thursday expressed concern about low pass percentage in schools and launched a special initiative to deal with it. Rolled out as CM-IMPACT programme, CM Sangma said, “We have to systematica...
03 Oct 2024
GUWAHATI — Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday that the roadblock on a key bridge over the Brahmaputra River, which will connect Majuli River island with the mainland in Assam’s Jorhat district, will be resolved soon following the...
03 Oct 2024
IMPHAL — Two youths, belonging to the Meitei community who were kidnapped by Kuki ultras on September 27, were released on Thursday, police said. A police official said in Imphal that the two youths were handed over to the Superintendent of Police,...
03 Oct 2024
