The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea has banned its citizens from laughing, shopping, drinking or any kind of merrymaking from Friday as part of an 11-day mourning period commemorating the 10th anniversary of former leader Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-il ruled North Korea from 1994 (after the death of his father […]

Following the ongoing scare of the spread of the newly detected Omicron variant of COVID-19, the union government has warned against mass gatherings in the run-up to Christmas and New Year. The Union Health Ministry today informed that around 101 cases of the Omicron variant have been detected across 11 states in the country. Health […]

The Naga Students’ Federation held a mega rally in Kohima demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act or AFSPA. The rally began at the Old MLA hostel junction in Kohima where NSF and civil society leaders gathered with hundreds of others for a formal address following which the protesters headed to the […]

The fire that razed parts of the Aizawl DC office has been contained fully. As per inputs out of the six buildings, the four made of wood have been worse hit. The two concrete ones that housed the strong room with EVM’s, postal ballots of the by-elections of the Aizawl Municipal council is said to […]

People in “Assam’s first clean and green village” in lower Assam’s Bajali district have raised their demand for development. In 2019, a Swacch Bharat Abhiyan report termed the village as a ‘clean and green village’. Fast forward two years, there has not been any significant progress so far as the development of the village is […]

A day after Karnataka MLA KR Ramesh Kumar made a controversial remark regarding women and rape , the Congress legislator today apologised for his comments in the Assembly. The Congress MLA said if it hurts the sentiments of women, then he has no problem apologising, and he does so from the bottom of his heart. […]

Officials in the Philippines are struggling to assess the damage caused by the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year, with several casualties reported as the storm barrelled across the archipelago, uprooting trees, toppling powerlines, and flooding villages in its path. As per reports, four deaths were recorded in the central Philippine province of […]

The Meghalaya government has received an amount of Rs 700 crore from a Japan International Cooperation Agency or JICA for the promotion and development of the tourism sector in the state. Chief Minister Conrad Sangma announced during the foundation laying ceremony of the state-of-the-art Eco Resort at the scenic Sakal A duma village under the […]

Fresh cases in Karnataka and Telangana have pushed India’s Omicron variant tally to 87. While Karnataka recorded five cases, neighbouring Telangana added four fresh cases of the new variant on Thursday. Delhi also reported four new cases. Also read: Omicron enters Mainland China, Overseas traveller tests positive Out of the five fresh cases in Karnataka, […]

The Sikkim High Court has set aside the expulsions of four students by a government college on grounds of violation of principles of natural justice by the authorities of the institution. They neither show caused the quartet nor provided any evidence to the court to establish the allegations levelled  against the students. In an order […]