Tripura has emerged as the first state in the entire country to inoculate 80 percent of its population. Speaking to mediapersons, National Health Mission director Siddharth Shiv Jaiswal said that 100 percent health care workers were vaccinated with 1st dose in the state, while the second dose has been administered to 70 percent of the […]

India registered as many as 51,667 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health Ministry. At 2.98 per cent, the daily positivity rate in the country remained below 5 per cent for the 18 days on the trot. The tally of daily recoveries outnumbered the count of daily new cases for […]

As search and rescue operations continues, a second body was recovered from the tragedy hit coal mine in East Jaintia Hills’ Sutnga area in Meghalaya‘s East Jaintia Hills district on Thursday. The highly decomposed body was retrieved from the main shaft at the mine accident site by the Navy divers who have been involved in […]

The Assam government in a cabinet decision on Thursday appointed Home Guard Borsing Bey as a Constable in Assam Police. Bey had refused a huge bribe from drug dealers and helped recover drugs valued at Rs 12 crore in Karbi Anglong. Bey recovered the drugs from a Guwahati-bound night super bus bearing registration number MN06B-0511 […]

The Federation of Government College Teachers Association or FEGOCTA has once again threatened to launch mass agitation and boycott online classes in pursuance of its long pending demand for implementation of 7th UGC Pay. Speaking to Northeast Live, FEGOCTA General Secretary Dr N Somorendro stated that the teachers’ fraternity under FEGOCTA is once again compelled […]

A novel study that drew on data gathered by UK Biobank suggests COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a loss of grey matter and other brain tissue over time. The damage was seen in brain areas that involved smell, taste, cognitive function and memory formation, said researchers who studied pre- and post-COVID brain image tests collated […]

The Serchhip Battalion of the Assam Rifles has recovered nearly 20,000 methamphetamine tablets at Mizoram’s Chhungte village on Thursday. Based on specific information, a joint operation was carried out by the Assam Rifles and the state Customs department of Champai district. The approximate cost of the seized item is estimated to be around Rs 1 […]

Junior doctors of the Agartala Government Medical College & GBP Hospital on Thursday staged a sit-in-demonstration within the college premises demanding hike in their stipends. While speaking to mediapersons, the protesting doctors said that they have submitted a memorandum to the officials of the medical college demanding hike in their stipends, but so far nothing […]

Amid the resurgence of lab leak theory of COVID-19, a new report has revealed that China deleted early coronavirus data in a possible bid to conceal its origins – hence impeding the World Health Organization’s investigation’s (WHO) probe of the virus. The so-called “lab leak” theory, once dismissed by the mainstream media, has gained traction […]

A four-member delegation of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura or IPFT, BJP’s ally in Tripura, called on the saffron party’s national president JP Nadda in New Delhi on Wednesday evening. Leaders of the IPFT, including Tripura tribal welfare minister Mevar Kumar Jamatia, met BJP national president JP Nadda at his official residence in New Delhi.  […]