Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Prahlad Joshi has said that he has informally contacted floor leaders of various political parties and they have expressed their concerns about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and opined of doing away with Winter Session of the Parliament. The Minister said this in a letter dated December 14, 2020, addressed to […]

In a significant milestone in its fight against the novel coronavirus, India’s recovery rate escalated to 95.12 percent on Tuesday, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) informed on Tuesday. “A total of 34,477 patients have recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours. The total recovered cases have crossed 94 lakhs (94,22,636). […]

United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) president Pramod Boro was sworn in as the chief executive member (CEM) of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) at Greenfield, Bodofa Nagar in Kokrajhar on Tuesday. Boro took oath in the presence of Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convenor and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma […]

The Assam Cabinet has on Sunday approved a proposal to close down all close all government-run Madrasas and Sanskrit tols in the State. As per the cabinet decision, the State Madrasa Board shall stand dissolved from the declaration of the result of examination to be held in 2021-22 and all their academic and administrative authority will […]

The Manipur University Students’ Union or MUSU has withdrawn its earlier decision to shut down the Manipur University from December 15 onwards to demand for appointment of a Vice-Chancellor. The decision came after the University appointed Professor Amar Yumnam as the VC in-Charge on Monday as per a notification after receiving approval for the same […]

The Indian National Congress managed to win just one seat in the recently-held Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections. The results for the 40 seats were announced on December 12, where Congress won the Srirampur seat. Congress MCLA, Sajal Kumar Sinha joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday, two days after his win. Addressing a […]

Google and a host of other services provided by the platform faced disruptions on Monday evening. Prominent services such as YouTube, Gmail etc have stopped working for many users. The company is yet to specify a reason for the outage. The tech giant had faced a similar outage in August this year. On the G […]

Republic TV Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vikas Khanchandani was arrested from his residence by the Mumbai Police’s Crime Branch on Sunday, in connection with the alleged Television Rating Points (TRP) manipulation case. The Mumbai metropolitan magistrate court later remanded Khanchandani in police custody till December 15. Khanchandani’s arrest comes days after Arnab Goswami’s arrest and […]

Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo on Sunday added another feather to his illustrious cap as he completed his 400th win in Europe’s top five leagues, a number no other player has reached in the 21st century. A second-half brace by Ronaldo and a goal from Paulo Dybala saw Juventus claim a 3-1 victory over Genoa at […]

A sizeable number of Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) MCLAs is set to join the UPPL-BJP led coalition in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) Chief Executive Member (CEM) designate Pramod Boro on Monday claimed that at least six newly elected BPF MCLAs are mulling to jump ship ahead of the formation of the new council in […]