Over 19.60 lakh voters have been enrolled in Meghalaya so far, while around 61,000 people eligible to vote are yet to be registered, Chief Electoral Officer FR Kharkongor said on Monday. Most of the people who are eligible to vote but are yet to be enrolled are in the East Khasi Hills district, he said. […]

India continued to show a downward trend of daily new coronavirus cases as only 29,164 fresh infections were reported in the last 24 hours in the country, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s data on Tuesday. With this, the overall cases in the country reached 88,74,291, including 4,53,401 active cases and […]

The COVID-19 tally in Nagaland crossed the 10,000-mark on Monday, as 140 more people have tested positive for the virus. 46 more patients have been discharged, taking the total recoveries to 8,860. The recovery rate has fallen to 88.37 per cent from 89.16 per cent on Sunday. With 1,009 active cases, the state’s COVID-19 caseload has […]

A husband-wife duo was seriously injured in a bomb explosion on Monday near the gate of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Imphal. Papao, 40, and his wife Haopi, 34, had come to the hospital from the State’s Kangpokpi district for treatment. A team of police led by Deputy Inspector general (DIG) Manipur […]

US biotech company Moderna on Monday announced a new potential COVID-19 vaccine, which has been shown to be 94.5 per cent effective at protecting people from coronavirus, according to interim results from late-stage clinical trials. This announcement followed announcements by US giant Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech who said their vaccine, was found to be more […]

The central government on Monday asked digital news media outlets to comply with conditions that make them eligible for 26 percent FDI (foreign direct investment) approved by the Union Cabinet last year. “Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has today issued a public notice to facilitate eligible entities involved in uploading/streaming of news and current affairs […]

Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar took oath as the Bihar Chief Minister for a fourth straight term on Monday at a ceremony held in Patna. Notably, it is the seventh time when Nitish Kumar is being sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar. Governor Phagu Chauhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to […]

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts soared into outer space on Sunday, marking the kick-off of what NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) hopes will be years of the company helping to keep the International Space Station (ISS) fully staffed. NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut with Japan’s […]

Havildar Haradhan Rai who made the supreme sacrifice on November 13 along the Line of Control (LoC) was laid to rest in his native village Medhipara Futkibari under Dhubri district on Monday. The last rites of the jawan was performed with full military honours. The funeral pyre was lit by the soldier’s wife, Bakul Roy […]

The shrine of Kedarnath is covered in a layer of snow on Monday as the Valley and the surrounding hills received fresh spells of snowfall, causing a significant dip in the temperature levels of the hills. The revered shrine is located in the Garhwal Himalayan range near the Mandakini river at about 22 kilometers uphill […]