Acting on a tip-off, a team of 43 Assam Rifles and Moreh Police including Women Assam Rifles raided a house at Moreh Ward No 3 and recovered contraband items worth Rs 3.30 crore. The security personnels detained a husband-wife duo identified as Ngura Sailo and Sangi Sailo from the site on charges of possessing contraband […]

Female voters in Mizoram outnumbered their male counterparts by 20,635 votes, where the names of over 7.97 lakh people appeared in the draft voters list published in all the eleven districts. According to the draft roll published by the State election department on Monday, there are altogether 7, 97,795 voters comprising of 3, 88,580 males […]

The Fifteenth Finance Commission, led by Chairman NK Singh, submitted its report for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26 to the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, an official statement said here on Tuesday. Members of the Commission, Ajay Narayan Jha, Prof Anoop Singh, Dr Ashok Lahiri and Dr Ramesh Chand along with Secretary to the Commission, Arvind […]

The poll dates for the Bodo Territorial Council elections were announced by the State Election Commission on Tuesday. The elections will be conducted in two phases. The first phase of the elections will be held for constituencies falling under Udalguri and Baksa district on December 7 (7:30 AM to 4:30 PM), while Kokrajhar and Chirang […]

Over 19.60 lakh voters have been enrolled in Meghalaya so far, while around 61,000 people eligible to vote are yet to be registered, Chief Electoral Officer FR Kharkongor said on Monday. Most of the people who are eligible to vote but are yet to be enrolled are in the East Khasi Hills district, he said. […]

India continued to show a downward trend of daily new coronavirus cases as only 29,164 fresh infections were reported in the last 24 hours in the country, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s data on Tuesday. With this, the overall cases in the country reached 88,74,291, including 4,53,401 active cases and […]

The COVID-19 tally in Nagaland crossed the 10,000-mark on Monday, as 140 more people have tested positive for the virus. 46 more patients have been discharged, taking the total recoveries to 8,860. The recovery rate has fallen to 88.37 per cent from 89.16 per cent on Sunday. With 1,009 active cases, the state’s COVID-19 caseload has […]

A husband-wife duo was seriously injured in a bomb explosion on Monday near the gate of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Imphal. Papao, 40, and his wife Haopi, 34, had come to the hospital from the State’s Kangpokpi district for treatment. A team of police led by Deputy Inspector general (DIG) Manipur […]

US biotech company Moderna on Monday announced a new potential COVID-19 vaccine, which has been shown to be 94.5 per cent effective at protecting people from coronavirus, according to interim results from late-stage clinical trials. This announcement followed announcements by US giant Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech who said their vaccine, was found to be more […]

The central government on Monday asked digital news media outlets to comply with conditions that make them eligible for 26 percent FDI (foreign direct investment) approved by the Union Cabinet last year. “Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has today issued a public notice to facilitate eligible entities involved in uploading/streaming of news and current affairs […]