India has achieved another milestone in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak as the active caseload of the country has fallen below 3 lakh for the first time after 163 days, while the total recoveries have surpassed 96 lakhs, said the Union Ministry of Health on Tuesday. The active caseload was below the 3 lakh […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for building new India and creating a self-reliant nation and said on Tuesday that politics can wait but the country’s development cannot. Speaking at the centenary celebrations of Aligarh Muslim University, he said that the country has already wasted time in the last century due to differences. […]

Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde arrived in Aizawl on Monday on a two-day visit to the Northeastern state. This is the first time in 30 years that a chief justice is visiting Mizoram. Justice Bobde took part in a programme, ”Meet on Green Mizoram”, at the conference hall of the Mizoram assembly in […]

Polling for panchayat and two urban local bodies in Arunachal Pradesh is underway on Tuesday with election officials and voters adhering to COVID-19 protocols. Voting began at 7 am but the turnout was moderate in the early hours as chilly weather conditions kept most people indoors, State Election Commission (SEC) Deputy Secretary Habung Lampung said. […]

All flights connecting the UK and India will remain suspended from Wednesday till December 31, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on Monday in view of the emergence of a mutated variant of the coronavirus there. Moreover, it said passengers coming from the UK through flights till Tuesday midnight would be tested for COVID-19 on arrival […]

63 militants belonging to four rebel outfits formally laid down their arms in a ceremony at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra in Guwahati on Monday. The ceremony was attended by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and other government officials. Taking to his Twitter CM Sonowal wrote, “Another significant step towards making a #TerrorismFreeAssam. I welcome the 63 members […]

In Meghalaya, the first-ever direct flight from Delhi to Shillong became operational from Monday. Transport Minister, Sniawbhalang Dhar travelled in the FlyBig flight and landed at Umroi Airport. The Meghalaya Government has partnered with Flybig to operate the direct flight between Delhi-Shillong and Shillong-Delhi. The Transport Minister said aspirations of the people to have a […]

A total of 6,500 seats have been declared elected unopposed, out of the total 8,475 seats for Gram Panchayat and Zila Parishad in the two-tier Panchayat system in Arunachal Pradesh. The contest will be held for only 1,843 seats. Polling will be held in 1,702 Gram Panchayat seats and 141 Zila Parishad constituencies. The polling […]

A man was sentenced to death on Monday by a court in Assam’s Bishwanath district for allegedly raping and killing a five-year-old girl. Bishwanath Additional Sessions Court sentenced the man to death after convicting him under IPC Sections 363 (kidnapping), 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence), among others, besides Section 6 of the […]

Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Motilal Vora passed away at a hospital in New Delhi on Monday at the age of 93. “Vora was hospitalised with urine infection two days ago but it was not the cause of his death,” Congress sources said. Fortis Escort Hospital where he was admitted is yet […]