Sikkim Governor’s House will be opened for the public from January 1 to offer the public a glimpse of the grandeur, architectural beauty and the well rich heritage of the Raj Bhavan complex. A special event to mark the formal opening of Raj Bhavan for tourists and the public was organized by the Tourism and […]

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has tested positive for COVID-19. As per reports, he has been admitted at a hospital in Kolkata. Worth mentioning here, Ganguly had suffered a minor heart attack in January this year following which he had to undergo an angioplasty procedure. Also Read: Five IPS officers shortlisted for DGP Meghalaya It has […]

The Meghalaya Government has shortlisted the names of five IPS Officers for the appointment as the next Director-General of Police (DGP). They are Mukesh Agarwal, KV Singh Deo, L Ram Bishnoi, SN Singh and Idashisha Nongrang. Except for Idashisha Nongrang, all the IPS officers are currently serving with the Assam Government. Also Read: Violet Baruah […]

Making the state proud, IPS officer Violet Baruah has been appointed as the first woman IGP of Assam. Violet Baruah belongs to the Assam-Meghalaya Cadre batch of 2004. Also Read: Assam power woman bags 4 I’ntl gold medals in power lifting She also received the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service earlier this year. Baruah […]

Assam’s very own Dr Anindita Priyadarshini Das made the Northeast proud one more time after she bagged as many as four gold medals for India in Women’s Powerlifting in the Asian Games at Istanbul. Also Read: Nagaland: Konyak CSOs continue to push for AFSPA repeal Dr Das, who hails from Guwahati, had earlier won four […]

Assam has secured the 12th position among the larger states in terms of overall health performance with a score of 47.74, as per the fourth State Health Index 2019-2020 launched by Niti Aayog released on Monday. Also Read: Nagaland: Konyak CSOs continue to push for AFSPA repeal Taking on Twitter, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma […]

Days after the Centre decided to constitute a high-level committee to examine the demand for removal of AFSPA, the Konyak Civil Society Organisations have demanded inclusion of ‘people from ground zero’ in the committee constituted for examining AFSPA repeal demand. The Konyak Civil Society organizations also lamented that no one from Mon or Oting were […]

Children in the age group of 15 and 18 would be able to register themselves for vaccination on the CoWIN platform from January 1, 2022. This has been informed by CoWIN platform chief Dr. RS Sharma. He said that an additional school ID card section for registration has been included in the platform as some […]

The fast-spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the Northeastern region has been detected in Manipur today. As per sources, the patient had recently returned from the East African country of Tanzania and is currently undergoing treatment at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), Imphal. Also Read: PM Modi to join campaign for 2022 Manipur […]

Abdul Baqi Haqqani, acting minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on Sunday said that co-education in Afghanistan’s universities, as well as the economic crisis, is a major reason behind the closure of universities. High schools for girls and Public universities are yet to reopen in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country. Taliban […]