India on Tuesday has surpassed a crucial milestone in its fight against the global pandemic as the country recorded the lowest daily rise in over six months. Less than 16,500 daily new cases (16,432) were added to the national tally in the last 24 hours after 187 days. The daily new cases were 16,922 on […]

Megastar Rajinikanth on Tuesday announced that he won’t be entering politics, citing health reasons. He will continue to work for people, Rajinikanth said. In a three-page statement posted on Twitter, the actor has apologised for not launching the party. “Only I know the pain of announcing this decision,” he said, adding that he will serve […]

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday interacted with leaders of several Civil Society Organisations to understand their issues and problems. The organisations included Kuki Inpi, Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), United Naga Council (UNC) and Zeliangrong Baudi. During the meeting, each organisation submitted their respective observations […]

Six returnees from the UK have been found positive for the new variant coronavirus genome in India. The Union Health Minister stated that samples of three UK returnees have been tested and found positive for new UK strain in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two in Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and one in National Institute […]

The Assam government on Monday introduced a Bill in the Assembly seeking to protect economically vulnerable groups and individuals from the hardship of usurious interest rates and coercive means of recovery by microfinance institutions or money lending agencies. Tabling The Assam Micro Finance Institutions (Regulation of Money Lending) Bill, 2020, on the first day of the […]

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday issued an order to extend the earlier ‘guidelines for COVID-19 surveillance’, which will remain in force up to January 31, 2021. “While there has been a continuous decline in the active and new COVID-19 cases, there is need to maintain surveillance, containment and caution, keeping in view […]

Oscar-winning music composer AR Rahman’s mother, Kareema Begum, died in Chennai on Monday, sources close to the family said. Rahman uploaded a picture of his mother on his official Twitter page, without a caption. Condoling her death, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami posted on Twitter, “Sad to know that Kareema Begum, mother of music […]

The Assam government on Monday said that 98.35 percent of fencing work along Assam- Bangladesh border has been completed. According to News On Air, in a written reply to the State Assembly session on Monday, State Transport Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said that 1.65 percent fencing work is pending due to objections raised by the […]

As the winter session of the Assam Assembly began on Monday, Health and Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday introduced a bill to repeal the provincialisation of Madrassa in the state. The bill proposes to abolish two existing acts – The Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995 and The Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation of […]

Former Assam minister and Golaghat MLA Ajanta Neog and former Assam Congress legislator Rajdeep Goala are set to join the BJP on December 29, 2021. Both the leaders will join BJP tomorrow at the state BJP headquarters in Hengrabari. According to a statement released by the state BJP office, it is mentioned that Ajanta Neog […]