The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines for Assam and Meghalaya has arrived in Guwahati on Tuesday evening. According to sources, the flight carrying the vaccine consignment from Serum Institute of India, Pune, weighing 732 kilograms, landed at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) airport around 5 pm in the evening. The vaccines will be shifted […]

Even as the world continues to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan tops the list of being the most powerful passport in the world for the year 2021, according to the latest report by the Henley Passport Index. Pakistan (rank 107) and Nepal (rank 104) continue to be in the ‘worst passports to hold’ category […]

Manipur has become fourth state in the country to successfully undertake reforms relating to urban local bodies (ULBs) as stipulated by the Department of Expenditure under Finance Ministry. Thus the state has become eligible to mobilise additional financial resources of Rs 75 crore through open market borrowings, according to an official statement issued on Tuesday. […]

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is gearing up for the upcoming assembly elections in Assam. In a move to give boost to the party’s poll campaign, prime minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the state on January 23. On the other hand, union home minister Amit Shah will address rallies at Kokrajhar and Nalbari on January […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the implementation of three farms laws until further orders and formed a four-member committee to hold talks with farmers over the Acts. “Implementation of the three laws stayed until further orders,” said Chief Justice of India SA Bobde. A three-judge bench, headed by the CJI, is hearing a batch […]

Many new faces are likely to get Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tickets for the upcoming Assam assembly elections, indicated North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convenor and Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. “Definitely, there are so many new workers. There must be some changes. But the percentage of changes is not yet decided,” said Sarma […]

Republican Party of India (A) chief Ramdas Athawale on Monday launched his party’s Tripura unit and said that the outfit aims at contesting in the 2023 assembly elections if its ally at the Centre, the BJP, agrees to share 3-4 seats with it. The Union Minister for social justice and empowerment also said his party […]

With Assembly elections in Assam only months away, BJP President JP Nadda on Monday launched party’s poll campaign in the state, asserting it will return to power for the second consecutive term by winning hundred plus seats in the 126-member House. The party since the 2016 assembly win in the state has emerged victorious in all the […]

India added 12,584 new cases to its COVID-19 tally in the last 24 hours taking the total cases to 1,04,79,179, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. With 18,385 more discharges, the cumulative recoveries reached 1,01,11,294. As many as 167 deaths were also reported in the last 24 hours, taking […]

After a participant who allegedly died days after volunteering for Covaxin trial in Bhopal, Bharat Biotech on Saturday clarified that the volunteer, at the time of enrolment, had fulfilled all the inclusion and exclusion criteria to be accepted as a participant in the Phase III trial and was reported to be healthy in all the […]