Contractual employees of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) of Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday staged a sit-in protest at the office of the General Manager BSNL in Itanagar. The protesting employees have alleged that as many as 272 casual staff members of BSNL have not received their monthly salary for the past 21 months with […]

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju kick-started his campaign in Mizoram for the upcoming election to the 25-member Lai Autonomous District Council (LADC) on Wednesday. The Union Sports Minister arrived at the Lengpui Airport a two-day campaign in the LADC and directly left for Lawngtlai district in the Southern most part of Mizoram. Talking to newspersons, Rijiju […]

President Ram Nath Kovind led the nation in reading the Preamble to the Constitution of India on Constitution Day on Thursday. The President of India tweeted about this development earlier today. Meanwhile, on the occasion of Constitution Day, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh wished the citizens, marking it as one […]

Newly-elected NDPP MLA Medo Yhokha was on Wednesday appointed the Advisor for Technical Education and Elections in the Nagaland government. Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio handed the appointment letter to Yhokha at his office, in presence of Deputy CM Y Patton, several ministers, NDPP president Chingwang Konyak and state BJP president Temjen Imna Along. Along, also […]

The last rites of the longest-serving Chief Minister of Assam, Tarun Gogoi were performed with full state honours at Navagraha crematorium in Guwahati on Thursday. Amid chanting of Tai Ahom prayers, preceded by a gun salute and band played by the Assam Police,  the three-time chief minister’s mortal remains were consigned to flames by his […]

Diego Maradona was a maestro of football and his untimely demise has saddened us all, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday as he expressed grief at the passing away of the Argentine legend. Maradona passed away on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack at the age of 60. PM Modi took to Twitter and […]

On the 12th anniversary of Mumbai terror attacks, political leaders and people on Thursday paid tributes to victims and security personnel who lost their lives in the siege on India’s financial capital. The ghastly attacks, which began on November 26, 2008, lasted for four days, leading to the death of 166 people and injuring over […]

Diego Maradona has died after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Tigre, according to reports in his native country. He was 60. The football legend had a heart attack at his home just two weeks after leaving hospital where he underwent surgery on a blot clot in his brain. Maradona, regarded as one […]

The Ministry of Communications on Wednesday said that all Fixed to Mobile calls will be dialed with prefix ‘0’ from 15th January next year. There will be no change with respect to dialling numbers for fixed-to fixed, mobile-to-fixed, and mobile-to-mobile calls. The Department of Telecommunications has taken the decision of implementing this with the consideration […]

As a mark of respect to the former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who passed away on November 23, the State government has declared half-holiday at 1 pm on November 26. The veteran Congress leader will be cremated with full state honours at the Nabagraha Cremation Ground on Thursday. During this period, all the government […]