Body of CRPF jawan Bablu Rabha who had been martyred in the Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh was laid to rest in his village in Assam’s Goalpara district on Monday. The last rites of Rabha, a constable of 210 CoBRA battalion of the para-military force was performed with full state honours at his native village — […]

Total 171 votes were cast in a booth in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, even though 90 people were eligible to exercise their franchise, officials said on Monday, revealing a massive irregularity. The booth is in the Haflong constituency, which went to the polls in the second phase on April 1. Haflong witnessed 74 per cent […]

The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country reached, 7,91,05,163, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. These include 90,09,353 Health Care Workers (HCW) who were administered their first dose of the vaccine, 53,43,493 HCWs who were administered their second dose, 97,37,850 Front Line Workers (FLW) who were […]

As many as 40 houses were completely gutted in a devastating fire that broke out at Senua Noksa village in Longding district of Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday evening. An Anganwadi centre, a community hall and a Catholic church were also devastated in the blazing inferno. However, the exact number of houses gutted and properties lost […]

The United Liberation Front of Asom—ULFA(I) has released the other abducted Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure Limited employee, Ram Kumar at an unknown location on the Indo-Myanmar border on Monday morning. Soon after his release, News Live’s chief reporter Anmitra Gogoi and senior journalist Sunil Bora, and senior video journalist Nav Krishna Pegu met Ram […]

Facing the worst wave of pandemic yet, India reported more than 1,03,558 cases new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health Ministry on Monday. With this, India entered the list of countries, along with the US, to report more than 1 lakh cases in a day. With these additional cases, the […]

A magisterial probe has been ordered to determine why a polling team in Assam carried an EVM in a vehicle owned by the wife of a BJP candidate, officials said on Saturday. Karimganj District Deputy Superintendent Anbamuthan MP issued an order on Friday night to probe the incident, which has snowballed into a huge controversy […]

Political parties have made promises galore to woo the 49.35 per cent strong women electorate but only 74 women candidates are in the fray for the three-phase Assam Assembly elections in 2021. The number of women candidates in this year’s Assembly election is less compared to the last two state assembly polls. In the 2016 […]

Buoyed by a raft of peace agreements with underground outfits in the Northeast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday made a fervent appeal to militants in Assam who have not surrendered yet to return to the mainstream as they are needed to create an ‘Atmanirbhar Assam’. Addressing an election rally here in Bodoland Territorial Region’s […]

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday relaxed its 48-hour campaigning ban on senior BJP leader and Assam finance minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma to 24 hours. Following the relaxation, Sarma will take part in a campaign today for West Gauhati AGP candidate Ramendra Narayan Kalita. “Join us in our Road Show today evening […]