The all-crucial special one-day session of the Nagaland Assembly will be held today. The House is set to adopt a unanimous resolution for repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers (AFSPA) Act during the 1-day session. The emergent session was reportedly convened against the backdrop of massive public outcry demanding the removal of the AFSPA […]

Two monkeys have now hit the headlines for allegedly killing over 250 dogs and are now in the custody of the Forest Department in Maharashtra‘s Beed. The killings are believed to be an act of revenge after some dogs killed an infant monkey. Beed Forest Officer, Sachin Kand said the monkeys will be released in […]

‘A light that refuses to fade out’, a short documentary feature about the late Aruna Mukherjee directed by Bobbeeta Sharma, was recently awarded the Best Educational Film of the year at the 23rd UGC- CEC Educational Video Competition under the aegis of Communication for Educational Consortium New Delhi. The winner received a certificate, a trophy […]

Assam Governor Professor Jagdish Mukhi has summoned the winter session of the Assam Assembly from tomorrow. As per reports, it will be a five-day session that will end on December 24. Also Read : Vistadome rail service for Guwahati-Naharlagun route flagged off today A few of the bills to be presented in the winter session […]

The Netherlands on Saturday announced a Christmas lockdown as Europe tries to rein in rising Covid-19 case numbers and the highly mutated Omicron strain takes hold. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, announced that all non-essential shops, cultural and entertainment venues must shut until January 14, while schools will close until at least January 9. Also […]

In yet another fillip to interstate communication, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today inaugurated the state-of-the-art Vistadom rail service for the Guwahati-Naharlagun route. Chief Minister Sarma flagged off the rail service from the Guwahati Railway Station which was also attended virtually by his Arunachal counterpart Chief Minister Pema Khandu. CM Sarma said that the […]

Kidambi Srikanth created history on Saturday by becoming the first Indian shuttler to enter the final in the men’s singles category of the BWF World Championships in Huelva. In an all-Indian battle, former world number one Srikanth rallied to defeat Lakshya Sen by 17-21, 21-14, 21-17 in a thriller that lasted for one hour and […]

Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang slammed the opposition Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) on allegations of deterioration of law and order situation in the state and stated that there were numerous heinous crime patronages by the then SDF government where many people have lost their lives. The Chief Minister added after the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) […]

In what comes as a pleasant surprise for wildlife enthusiasts across the country, a Takin or Gnu goat, which is considered to be one of the rarest mammals on the planet, was caught by a trap camera above 3,500 metres in Arunachal Pradesh‘s East Kameng district. Notably, it is the first-ever image of a Takin […]

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday flagged off a consignment of 40 MT of canned pineapples for Hamburg, Germany from Kumarghat in northern Tripura which is famous for its pineapples. CM Deb in the presence of other Minister MLA and senior officials informed that the pineapples will reach Germany by ship from Haldia […]