With India reporting daily cases within the range of 30,000 to 40,000 for the past few days, the steady decline in the cases that the country had managed after the second wave has slowed down. On Sunday, the Union Health Ministry bulletin said that over 41,000 cases were reported across the country in the past […]

Mizoram’s COVID-19 tally surged to 27,153 on Sunday as 463 more people including 117 children tested positive for the infection, a health department official said. The COVID-19 death toll climbed to 121 as a 75-year- old woman succumbed to the infection at Zoram Medical College (ZMC) on Saturday night, he said. The 463 new cases […]

Security forces have arrested four militants of the Zeliangrong United Front-Kamson (ZUF-K) outfit in Manipur”s Imphal East district and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a combined team of Manipur Police and Assam Rifles conducted a search operation and nabbed the four militants from K R Lane […]

Arunachal Pradesh continued to register a surge in COVID-19 cases as 475 more people tested positive for the infection, pushing the tally to 42,564, a senior health official said here on Sunday. The COVID-19 death toll in the frontier state increased to 201, as two more persons succumbed to the infection on Saturday, State Surveillance […]

Assam reported 23 more COVID-19 deaths, which took the toll to 4,984, according to a bulletin issued by the National Health Mission on Saturday. #AssamCovidUpdate Media Bulletin on #Covid19 #Assam and actions taken as on 17/07/2021. pic.twitter.com/0Ldr4KkOPX — NHM_Assam (@nhm_assam) July 17, 2021 The coronavirus caseload in the northeastern state mounted to 5,45,954 as 1,727 […]

Continuing its fight against eradicating drugs trade, Assam Police burnt drugs worth Rs 20 crore in Golaghat in the presence of chief minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma. In the drugs disposal programme, 802 gram heroin worth more than Rs 20 crore, 1205 kg ganja, 3kg opium and 2,06,906 tablets were burnt. “Earlier only 10 percent […]

The Pramod Boro-led Bodoland Territorial Council added two new MCLAs to its Executive Council. Nominated candidate Wilson Hasda has been elevated as Executive Member (EM) in the council to handle important portfolios. The two new candidates- Wilson Hasda and Dhananjay Basumatary took oath on Thursday in presence of Chief Executive Member (CEM), Pramod Boro, Deputy […]

With the Tokyo Olympics set to commence in a week’s time, a formal send-off ceremony will take place on Saturday at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport as the first batch of athletes departs from India to Tokyo. The contingent of 88 which includes 54 athletes, support staff and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) representatives will […]

India recorded 38,079 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the daily positivity rate to 1.19 per cent, the Union Health Ministry informed on Saturday. The daily positivity rate has been below 3 per cent for 26 consecutive days. The active cases further declined to 4,24,025, taking the weekly positivity rate to 2.10 […]

Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma said that he would meet Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday evening to fix a date for the official border talks between the two neighbouring states. The issue of the boundary dispute with Assam was discussed during the meeting of the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA), held ahead of […]