Traders in Dimapur have been pushed to the edge by the alleged rampant collection of illegal funds by several underground groups who are charging a number of taxes from the business community. In fact, the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry has said it is totally aghast with the uncontrolled tax collection. The DCCI appealed […]

It has been a day of absolute political thriller in Karnataka, where the BJP despite emerging as the single largest party and missing the majority mark by a whisker is struggling to claim stake for government formation. In fact just as the Karnataka election results showed the BJP had taken a big lead, the Congress reached […]

At a time when the entire State of Assam is up and going all out against the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill, two important organizations of the State – The All Assam Students’ Association and the All Assam Karmachari Parishad on Tuesday came together and has joined hands to oppose the proposed Bill. In an all […]

The Assam Congress is not divided over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill issue. This was informed by state Congress president Ripun Bora who was in Delhi with a state party leaders’ delegation to attend a party high command meet to deliberate on the issue. Following a meeting with Congress general secretary CP Joshi, Assam party president […]

Mizoram Deputy Speaker R Lalrinawma while expressing his condolences to the unfortunate families of those who were killed at Zemabawk Berawlui in Aizawl following a quarry cave announced an ex-gratia for the families of those deceased. Lalrinawma said that he will do everything in his power to help the deceased families. However, as the deceased […]

Karimganj police have arrested two Bangladeshi smugglers. The incident happened at Kandi village near the India-Bangladesh border. A group of seven smugglers had entered into Indian territory after passing through the barbed fences on the border through the means of a hume pipe in between. Police, acting on a tip off, laid ambush and succeeded […]

Assam is all set to roll out E-way bill for intra-state movement of goods from this week, taking the total number of states and union territories in India which have implemented the system to 20. The state is all slated to implement it from wednesday onwards. As per the decision of the Goods and Services […]

As protests continue to rage all over Assam regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, Dibrugarh based outfit known as the Jatiya Janagosthi Aikya Mancha has called for a 100 hour long economic blockade in the region. The organisation, a conglomerate of various smaller outfits, has called for the blockade from 5 am today onwards in protest […]

In the midst of all the protests going on against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, a team of such protesters from the All Assam Student Union got attacked during one such protest in Assam’s Hailakandi district. The group of protestors had to face stone pelting from some miscreants while they were holding a protest. An […]

The Centre yesterday sanctioned Rs 480.87 crore as flood relief for Assam to meet up with damages suffered in the deluge last year. The calamity relief was approved by a high-level committee headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The Home Ministry approved a total of Rs 1,161.17 crore calamity relief for four states States — […]