Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. The Union Minister took to Twitter to announce that he has tested positive for Coronavirus and urged all those who have come in contact with him to exercise self-quarantine and get themselves tested. “After getting a repeated test for Covid-19, […]

The National People’s Party (NPP) on Saturday staked claim to form the next Executive Committee in the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council. NPP national president and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma today met Governor Satya Pal Malik and staked claim to form the next council. The Meghalaya Chief Minister was accompanied by the newly elected […]

Assam Health and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that the State government has given full authority to the district administration heads to shut down all primary schools wherein on an average positive COVID-19 cases exceeds over 100. However, in the districts where the number of victims is less, schools will not be […]

The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has nearly touched 12 crore as part of the world’s largest vaccination drive, the Union Health Ministry has informed on Saturday. According to the ministry, a total of 11,99,37,641 vaccine doses have been administered through 17,37,539 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 […]

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has confirmed that it has yet to join the coalition with the National People’s Party (NPP) in the race to the formation of the Executive Committee to the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council. The latest development comes in the wake of the conclusion of the GHADC elections in which the […]

Global COVID-19 deaths have crossed the 3 million mark, according to the latest update by Johns Hopkins University on Saturday. According to the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), as of 1.50 pm IST, the total COVID-19 cases worldwide stand at 139,979,449 and the deaths […]

The Tripura government on Friday announced suspension of physical attendance of students in all schools, colleges and universities from April 17 due to the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. The state administration a week ago had suspended classroom teaching of standard 1 and 2 in all schools across the state for an indefinite period for […]

The Manipur government on Friday imposed a night curfew with immediate effect as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the northeastern state, an official said. The curfew will come into force from 8 pm to 4 am every day, he said. The number of infections has increased exponentially in the last fortnight necessitating many states […]

India reported its highest-ever single-day spike of COVID-19 cases with over 2.34 lakh new cases and more than 1,300 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry on Saturday. In the last 24 hours, 1,341 COVID-related deaths were reported in the country taking the death toll to 1,75,649. As many as […]

A consultative meeting of the Nagaland government with tribal bodies and civil societies of the state on Friday decided to form a Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) to work out modalities to achieve the objective of the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN), a government spokesperson said. The state government in June 2019 had launched […]