Narayanpur: Two security personnel were injured in separate actions against Naxals in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday, informed police. A District Reserve Guard (DRG) jawan has been injured in an encounter between security forces and the Naxals at a forest along the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border. In another incident, a Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) personnel sustained […]

The final Indian squad for the 2021 International Ranking Series Tournament ‘Matteo Pellicone’ in Free Style, Greco Roman Style and Women Wrestling has been announced and Sakshi Malik has been included in the women’s team. The tournament will take place in Rome from March 4 to 7. Sakshi was initially left out of the squad […]

GUWAHATI: In a major boost to realizing state government’s goal of making an insurgency-free Assam and ushering in lasting peace in the State, 1040 militants of five Karbi ethnic militant groups laid down arms and joined the mainstream in front of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at a function held at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra in the […]

The world’s biggest cricket stadium was renamed after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a surprise move Wednesday hours before its inaugural international match between India and England. It has renamed Narendra Modi Stadium. The 110,000-seater stadium was the pet project of Modi who was chief minister in Gujarat state, where Ahmedabad is the main […]

Assam PWD, Finance and Health Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday morning inaugurated the Office of the New Guwahati Treasury Officer in Chandmari Colony, Guwahati. “This office was in a really bad condition. So, we have built this new Treasury office at a cost of around Rs. 2 crores. We will also build many […]

On the second anniversary of the PM-Kisan scheme on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the BJP government in the Centre is doing everything possible to double the income of farmers. In a series of tweets, the Prime Minister said his government has the “honour of ushering a historic increase in minimum support price […]

Three more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 4,413, an official said on Wednesday. Two cases were reported from Aizawl district and one from Lunglei district, he said. Mizoram now has 24 active COVID-19 cases, while 4,379 people have recovered from the virus. The […]

The Election Commission of India is undergoing a crucial meeting today to finalise the schedule for Assembly polls in four states and one in Union Territory later this year. The fourth states are West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The lone UT where polling will take place in Puducherry.  The meeting will be chaired […]

A new species of alpine plant in Arunachal Pradesh”s Tawang district has been discovered by a group of scientists of three institutes of the country, according to a journal that published their research paper. The new species belongs to the family of Himalayan sunflower, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology research fellow Dr […]

The BJP on Tuesday put up a spectacular performance in the Gujarat municipal corporation elections improving its numbers over the 2016 polls and nearly decimating the Congress. The party is set to retain power in all municipal corporations which went to the polls. The performance appears all the more credible as BJP has been in […]