Nagaland: Naga People’s Front reach out to ruling NDPP for merger

The Naga People’s Front has reached out to the ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party or the NDPP to merge with it. Talking exclusively to Northeast Live, NPF legislature party leader and former Chief Minister TR Zeliang stated that there is nothing wrong in inviting another regional party to merge with his party. However, Zeliang said […]

Northeast Covid Updates: Cases spike in Meghalaya, Tripura and Manipur ; Assam witnesses a marginal dip

Assam’s COVID trajectory witnessed a slight dip with a total of 1,028 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours. Of these, 254 cases have been detected in the Kamrup Metropolitan district. With this, Assam’s active caseload stands at 15,178. Thus, the COVID positivity rate is 3.08 percent. Meanwhile, a total of 18 COVID-related deaths […]

Manipur Polls 2022: NPP Announce 13 candidates, JD(U) 30

The NPP has released its second list of candidates for the upcoming Manipur assembly elections. The NPP’s second list includes names of 13 candidates. Significantly, the list includes names of at least two BJP leaders who were denied party tickets. The BJP leaders who defected the party and are contesting on NPP tickets include Z […]

Manipur Polls: Denied Tickets in BJP, intending candidates hop party

The BJP has been rocked by desertions since the release of its list of 60 candidates. Faced with the problem of plenty in the election-bound state, the BJP denied tickets to 3 sitting MLAs. The party also had to disappoint a number of intending candidates, many of whom were near certain of making the cut. […]

Manipur Polls: BJP denies tickets to three sitting MLAs

Names of three sitting BJP MLAs were missing from the candidate list for Manipur polls that was announced by BJP on January 30. This includes Y Irabot of Wangkhei assembly constituency. In his place BJP has decided to field Okram Henry. Apart from this Kakching MLA M. Rameshwor has been denied a ticket where Y […]

Northeast Covid Alert: Cases spike in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur

Assam registered a slight increase in COVID cases with a total of 2,294 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Of these, a total of 535 fresh cases were reported from the Kamrup Metropolitan district. This puts the total active caseload in Assam at 28,788. As a result, the COVID positivity rate is 6.41 percent. […]

Manipur Polls: Independent MLA Ashab Uddin joins JD (U)

With less than a month left for the Assembly elections in the state, Independent MLA from Jiribam Ashab Uddin resigned as an MLA and joined the Janata Dal (United) yesterday. Ashab Uddin joined the party in presence of JDU National President Rajiv Ranjan in Imphal. Earlier on Wednesday evening, Thangmeiband MLA Khumukcham Joykisan, who was […]

Northeast Covid alert: Cases spike in Mizoram, Meghalaya, Tripura; Manipur sees a marginal dip

Mizoram continues to witness a spike in the number of daily COVID-19 cases. In the last 24 hours, the state reported a total of 2,064 cases, taking the active COVID tally in the state to 13,721 and the positivity rate to 27.32%. On the other hand, 1,046 patients recovered from the illness in the same […]

Manipur Polls 2022: Congress announces alliance with five parties

With sights on the upcoming Manipur Polls the Congress has formed a pre-poll alliance with five like minded parties ahead of the poll-battle to counter the BJP, NPP as well as the NPF. The other parties which have joined hands with Congress are the CPI, CPI(M), RSP, JD(S) and the Forward Block. Meanwhile, all the […]