All eyes are now on Wednesday’s bout where Assam girl Lovlina Borgohain will be facing Turkey’s B Surmeneli in the women’s welterweight category semi-final match at the Tokyo Olympics, aiming to become the first ever Indian boxer to advance to the Games final. While Lovlina has assured a bronze medal for herself, she now aims […]

Home Secretary of Mizoram has written to his counterpart in Assam urging the latter to make all necessary arrangements to enable entry of Mizoram bound vehicles. Besides, in the letter the Mizoram home secretary has assured full safety and security of all drivers, passengers and vehicles within the state. It may be mentioned that hundreds […]

The Nagaland Assembly on Tuesday appealed the Government of India and the Naga political groups to resume peace talks with a positive approach and mutual respect without any pre-conditions. The House also appealed to Naga political groups to make serious efforts towards unity and reconciliation and avoid constant antagonism against each other. Earlier, Nagaland Chief […]

Arunachal Pradesh is likely to get its second medical college after the Centre on Tuesday assured to set up one in Namsai district. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya gave the assurance when a team led by state’s Health and Family Welfare Minister Alo Libang called on him in New Delhi on Monday. Libang, who was […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will invite the Indian Olympics contingent to the Red Fort as special guests on Independence Day. The celebrations for the programme this year is expected to be low-key amid the pandemic. The Prime Minister will also meet and interact with all the athletes who are part of the contingent. Earlier in […]

In the 12th round of talks between India and China, both countries have agreed to disengage troops from the patrolling point 17A, one of the friction points between the two countries in the eastern Ladakh region. During the 12th round of talks, there was an agreement between both sides to disengage from PP-17A also known […]

The three regional committees from Meghalaya, formed to study the inter-state boundary issues with Assam, met on Monday and decided to conduct field visits and examine the ground situation. Reacting to a query, Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) minister and  Hill State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) leader, Renikton Tongkhar Lyngdoh said that there is no […]

Two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, including a Sub Inspector, were killed in an exchange of fire between a patrolling party and some militants in the Dhalai district of Tripura on Tuesday morning. According to BSF, the encounter began around 6.30 am in the general area of Border Outpost R.C. Nath in Dhalai district. Sub-Inspector […]

India’s tally of COVID-19 cases climbed to 3,17,26,507 after 30,549 new infections were registered in the last 24 hours, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. With this, the number of active cases of COVID-19 in the country reached 4,04,958 which constitute 1.28 percent of the total cases. Also, 422 patients succumbed […]

The NSCN-IM on Monday demanded the direct intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for resumption of the official dialogue on Naga peace and to take the Framework Agreement to a logical conclusion. The NSCN-IM urged PM Modi to appoint his representatives to take forward the political dialogue with the group. The NSCN-IM statement comes on […]