The widow of Army Major Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal, who was killed in the 2019 Pulwama terrorist attack, on Saturday donned the Indian Army uniform for the first time as she joined the force to serve the nation. Nikita Kaul paid tribute to her husband who lost his life in the February 2019 encounter with […]

In a sensational allegation, the Nagaland Government has termed the inter-state border row in Dissoi valley as a handiwork of Assam Congress MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi. Speaking exclusively to Northeast Live, senior BJP leader and Nagaland Government Spokesperson Mmhonlumo Kikon termed the firing incident as politically motivated and blamed Mariani MLA Kurmi for the incident. Kikon […]

A day after the arrest of all the perpetrators in the gruesome sexual assault of a girl, now, the victim is reportedly in the custody of the Bengaluru police. The Bengaluru City Police have traced the woman from Bangladesh, who was tortured and sexually assaulted, to Kerala and brought her back to the city on […]

Smuggled goods worth over Rs 9 crore were seized in multiple joint operations in Mizoram and Manipur, Assam Rifles said on Friday. In a joint operation with Customs Preventive Force, Assam Police seized 39 cases of foreign-origin cigarettes worth Rs 51.94 Lakhs from Lawngtlai District of Mizoram. In another operation, Assam Rifles seized contraband items […]

Defending champion Amit Panghal (52kg) and Shiva Thapa (64kg), along with one another Indian, stormed into the Asian Boxing Championship Olympic-bound Panghal out-punched familiar foe Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan 5-0. Thapa, the first Indian male boxer in the tournament history to secure five medals, dominated top-seeded defending champion Bakhodur Usmonov of Tajikistan to make the […]

The Assam government on Friday decided to hike wages of tea garden workers by Rs 38 and this will be effective from February 23 of this calendar year. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, held a meeting with representatives of Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha and other tea bodies to discuss issues pertaining of wage fixation and […]

The single-day rise in coronavirus cases was recorded at 1,73,790, the lowest in last 45 days, taking India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,77,29,247, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The daily positivity further declined to 8.36 per cent, remaining below 10 per cent for five consecutive days, while the […]

Assam on Friday reported 80 more COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 2,819. The State registered 5,436 new cases on Friday. The positivity rate has further dropped to 4.42 percent. On the other hand, the recovery rate currently stands at 85.47 percent. Among the fresh cases, 595 cases have […]

Sikkim on Friday recorded its highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases with the detection of 420 fresh cases in the state. The overall cases tally in the Himalayan state has gone up to 14,634. There total number of active cases in the state stands at 3,794. Among the new cases, 85 monks from the Rumtek […]

A Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court in Mumbai on Friday remanded Sushant Singh Rajput’s flatmate Siddhartha Pithani to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) custody till June 1. The NCB Mumbai unit arrested Pithani on March 26 from Hyderabad and brought him to Mumbai on a transit warrant obtained from a local court there. Pithani was booked […]