Around 36 hours after fresh skirmishes were reported near the Assam-Mizoram border in Hailakandi district, a high-level team from Assam headed by Inspector General of police Anurag Agarwal visited the spot and inspected the overall security situation. Hailakandi Deputy Commissioner Rohan Kumar Jha and SP Gaurav Upadhyay were also part of the delegation that inspected […]

At a time when the Conrad Sangma-led government is trying all means to restore complete normalcy in Shillong, an organization named ‘Sur Ki Nong Mawlai’ or the ‘Voice of the People of Mawlai’ has served the Conrad Sangma-led government a 7-day ultimatum demanding suspension of East Jaintia Hills SP and Shillong City SP for their alleged […]

Braving the extreme weather and terrain, health workers in Arunachal Pradesh are taking another extra step to ensure that the Covid vaccine reaches all eligible citizens in the state. Sparsely populated, Arunachal Pradesh has lots of remotely located villages in each district. With no motorable roads connecting this remote villages, health workers have to negotiate […]

Four people were arrested with heroin worth Rs 3.5 lakh in south Mizoram’s Siaha town, an official said on Wednesday. Personnel of the Excise and Narcotics Department conducted a raid along Bualpui (NG) Road in Siaha near the Myanmar border around 11.40 pm on Tuesday and seized 124 grams of heroin from the possession of […]

Following Sushmita Dev’s exit from the grand old party, the Assam Congress has inducted Naiwrita Joy Shukla into the party as Dev’s replacement in the Barak Valley. On Tuesday, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee welcomed Naiwrita Joy Shukla, granddaughter of former congress MP Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya from Karimganj constituency, to the Congress party. “We have opened […]

The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized 40 kg cannabis and 196 bottles of prohibited cough syrup at the India- Bangladesh border in an operation, the force said on Wednesday. The operation was conducted by BSF’s 47 Battalion troops under the aegis of Guwahati Frontier on Tuesday. “Maintaining the drive against Narcotics smuggling, the BSF […]

The Governing Board members and senior members of the News Broadcasters Federation held a productive meeting with Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday. The Governing Board apprised the Union Minister on key issues facing the news industry, the recent growth and trends in the news broadcasting sector and the challenges facing the […]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday in an interim order has allowed women to take the National Defence Academy (NDA) exam scheduled for September 5 and has also slammed the Indian Army for the decisions that are based on “gender discrimination”. A Bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Hrishikesh Roy ordered that female candidates […]

With 35,178 fresh COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, India’s active caseload on Wednesday now stands at 3,67,415 the lowest in over four months (148 days). As per Health Ministry, as many as 440 COVID-deaths were reported in the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 4,32,519. India has […]

Union Minister of State for Education and External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh who was on a two-day visit to Nagaland as part of his tour program for Jan Ashirwad Yatra, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is eager to solve the vexed Naga political issue at the earliest. He added that the peace process has […]