Northeast celebrates 73rd Republic Day, remembers sacrifices of freedom fighters

Along with the rest of the country, the Northeastern states are also celebrating the 73rd Republic Day today with vigour and patriotic fervour. In Assam, Republic Day celebrations are all being held under strict covid protocols. All official functions are seeing limited attendance while being demarcated into different levels. Only double vaccinated people would be […]

Focusing & training hard for Commonwealth & Asian Games : MC Mary Kom

The desire to win Olympic gold has always been paramount for Northeast’s ace pugilist MC Mary Kom. Mary, who is more popularly called ‘Magnificent Mary’ for her boxing prowess, is confident to bring more laurels for the country in the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games. Northeast Live correspondent MK Henry caught up with the star […]

Manipur Polls: Postal Ballots for cadres in designated camps

With only a few days left for the Manipur polls, the Election Commission of India is taking all steps to ensure every eligible voter gets an opportunity to cast their votes. The Election Commission has allowed postal ballot voting for members of rebel groups that have signed Suspension of Operations with the government. Under this […]

Manipur: 50 acres of poppy fields destroyed in Churachandpur

In the fight against drugs, a total of 50 acres of poppy cultivation were destroyed during a poppy destruction drive on Friday at Thangching Hill range in Manipur’s Churachandpur district. The drive against illicit poppy cultivation was carried out by a joint team of Churachandpur District Police, Narcotics and Affairs of Border (a unit under […]

Northeast Covid Scenario: Cases continue to spike

Assam reported a total of 6,897 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours. Out of these fresh cases, 1,561 cases have been reported from Kamrup Metropolitan District. With these fresh cases, Assam’s COVID positivity rate now stands at 12.13 percent. On this note, the active caseload of the state stands at 45,021. What is […]

Manipur celebrates 50th Statehood day

Manipur celebrated its statehood day and golden jubilee today at the 1st Battalion Manipur Rifles Parade Ground in Imphal. As part of the Golden Jubilee celebration, Chief Minister N. Biren Singh released a commemorative postage stamp for the 50th anniversary of Manipur’s statehood. PHED Executive Engineer Shri Chamdanlung Rongmei was also awarded for his dedication […]

Manipur Assembly Elections: Crackdown on cash and liquor intensified

As the polls dates of the Manipur Assembly Elections gets closer the Election Commission is taking special care for its smooth conduct. As part of such efforts, nearly 60 percent of licensed arms in poll-bound Manipur have been deposited with district authorities so far. Moreover to check the pre-poll violence in the state a total […]

Lone TMC MLA in Manipur joins BJP

Lone Trinamool Congress MLA in the state, Tongbram Robindro joined the BJP today. Apart from Robindro, former Congress MLA Surchandra also joined the saffron party. At the party office in Imphal, Robindro, who was the only TMC MLA in Manipur, was welcomed to the party by Union Minister Pratima Bhoumick and election co-in-charge of Manipur […]

Terror attack foiled in Manipur, huge cache of arms seized, IED neutralised

In a major success, a planned terrorist attack in Manipur was foiled by security forces today. Acting on specific inputs, troopers of the Assam Rifles and Manipur police personnel launched a search operation which led to the recovery of a cache of arms and ammunition from Chingmanglei village in Churachandpur district which included one 7.62 […]