Stepping up its crackdown into the Rose Valley chit fund scam in Tripura, the Central Bureau of Investigation will interrogate former Tripura social welfare minister Bijita Nath and former health and finance minister Badal Choudhury in connection with the case. According to sources, the apex investigating agency will interrogate Bijita Nath at her Kadamtala residence […]

Intensifying the crackdown against District Transport Officer Prasenjit Ghosh, the Dibrugarh police carried out raid at the Guwahati residence of the Assam government official. The official was arrested days ago for his involvement in the APSC cash for job scam. Ghosh was arrested while he was serving as the DTO of Sonitpur district. Apart from […]

Suspected ULFA (I) militants carried out two separate attacks in Charaideo district of Eastern Assam late Monday night. The militants hurled grenades at a fuel station in Sapekhati and the Kanubari tea estate. However, no casualties were reported in the explosions. According to reports, a group of 6 member ULFA militants are on an extortion […]

Just days after the centre passed the ordinance paving way for death penalty to those found guilty of raping minors, 2 persons were arrested in Margherita for raping a 14 year old minor girl. The girl was reportedly raped by the two accused men on April 16 after inducing her during a Bihu function at […]

NEDA convenor and Assam Finance, Health, Education and Tourism Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s rises in the national political arena. The firebrand Minister, credited to have installed BJP-led governments in six northeastern States, has been ranked 10th most powerful among Indian politicians according to a report by ‘India Today’. In a survey on the most powerful […]

The Centre has declared Northeast to be a far safer place than before and has disclosed the lifting AFSPA from the entire state of Meghalaya besides parts of Arunachal Pradesh. The government has also announced that armed forces special power act has been withdrawn from Meghalaya while in Arunachal Pradesh the jurisdiction of the act […]

Demanding immediate regularization of services, hundreds of SPOs have once again threatened to jump from the Saraighat bridge and commit suicide. It may be mentioned that the SPOs have been forced to take this decision as the authorities concerned have not been taking any decision to regularize their services since long. In the meantime, a […]

The Army today launched a massive operation against the NDFB in the jungles of Chirang. Acting on a tip off that a 40 member group of the insurgent outfit under the leadership of NDFB area commander and sharp shooter Batha had entered the area, the Army launched the operation in which helicopters and a contingent […]

Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu rejected the notice given by the opposition parties led by Congress for impeachment of Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra citing lack of substantial merit in it. Naidu held extensive consultations with top legal and constitutional experts before taking the decision. The rejection of the notice […]

Coming off in the same process, the Assam state government sought to preserve the house of eminent writer Lakhminath Bezbaruah’s residence in Odisha last year, a similiar process will be undertaken to preserve noted singer Dr. Bhupen Hazarika’s house in Kolkata. This was stated by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at a public Bihu function in […]