The Assam government on Wednesday created Welfare of Bodoland Department for speedy implementation of various schemes in an autonomous region comprising Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri districts of the state. The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Affairs of Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) were under the Welfare […]

Yaas weakened into a severe cyclonic storm on Wednesday afternoon after pounding the beach towns in north Odisha and neighbouring West Bengal with a wind speed of 130-145 kmph, inundating the low-lying areas amid a storm surge even as the two eastern states battled the COVID crisis, officials said. Yaas, which was earlier classified as […]

The row over the racial slur against Arunachal Pradesh MLA Ninong Ering refuses to die down. After Ludiana-based Paras Singh who has since been arrested, two other Youtubers, one of them with more than 1 million subscribers, have targeted Ninong Ering. However, after an Arunachal Pradesh Youtuber highlighted the fresh abuse by the Youtubers – […]

The Tripura government has announced extension of the corona curfew in Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) areas and all urban local bodies (ULB) till June 5 to contain the spread of the pandemic. Earlier, a corona curfew was imposed in AMC areas and ULBs across the state on May 17, and a night curfew in other […]

IPS officer Subodh Kumar Jaiswal on Wednesday took over as the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He has been appointed as the CBI Director for a period of 2 years. SK Jaiswal, a Maharashtra cadre and 1985 IPS batch, previously served as DGP Maharashtra. He also served in RAW for eight years. […]

WhatsApp on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court against the Centre’s recently imposed IT Rules that would require the messaging services to “trace” the origin of particular messages sent on the service. WhatsApp through its statement said, “Requiring messaging apps to ‘trace’ chats is the equivalent of asking us to keep a fingerprint of every […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the world will not be the same after Covid-19 and noted that the events in the future will be remembered as either pre or post-Covid. Delivering the keynote address on the occasion of “Virtual Vesak Global Celebrations” on Buddha Purnima, the prime minister expressed gratitude towards the […]

The Uttarakhand division of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has sent a Rs 1,000 crores defamation notice to yoga guru Ramdev for his recent statements on allopathy doctors and medicine. In the notice, IMA said if the yoga guru does not post a video countering the statements given by him and tender a written apology […]

The daily COVID-19 positivity rate in India has reduced and now stands at 9.42 per cent, while the recoveries continue to outnumber the new cases for the 13th consecutive day, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday. Meanwhile, 2,08,921 new COVID-19 cases and 4,157 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours […]

Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) MLA Gossaigaon constituency, Majendra Narzary has died of post-COVID-19 complications at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) on Wednesday morning. Narzary breathed his last at 5:50am at the GMCH in Guwahati. He was on life support. The Bodoland Peoples’ Front (BPF) leader was 68 and is survived by his wife and […]