Swedish DJ and record producer Avicii, one of the biggest stars of electronic dance music or EDM in Europe, was found dead on Friday in Muscat, Oman. However the exact cause of the death is yet to be ascertained. Avicii, whose real name is Tim Bergling, was 28. Avicii won a number of American Music Awards, […]

As the Centre is looking forward to bring in tough law against rape, another heinous incident of minor being raped has been reported from Margherita in Tinsukia district. The accused identified as 55 year old Ainul Haq was arrested by the police on charges of raping a 6 and a half year old minor girl […]

The much talked-about ministry expansion in Assam has finally got the BJP central leadership’s nod and that who makes it to the Sarbananda Sonowal cabinet will be known in a couple of day’s time. Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said this after he and chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal called on BJP national president Amit […]

Days after the Chiriyakhana Suraksha Mancha, a local NGO in Guwahati made sensational allegations against the staff of the Assam State Zoo claiming that the staff feasted on deer meat, Chief Conservator of Forests NK Vasu asked the NGO to provide evidence. The Chiriyakhana Suraksha Mancha had earlier made sensational allegations stating that officials and […]

The Tangsa community of Arunachal Pradesh are celebrating the Moh Mol Festival. The festival is celebrated by the community for good growth in agriculture. The Festival is being organised by the Tangsa Students’ Union.

Following the controversy surrounding the role of the Satra Mahasabha and its General Secretary supporting the granting of citizenship to Hindu Bangladeshis. The Satra Mahasabha today came down heavily on its General Secretary Sattradhikar Janardan Deva Goswami saying that he does not have any right to speak on behalf of the Sattra Mahasabha. It may […]

Demanding a permanent campus of the Sikkim Central University, the Sikkim University Student’s Association or the SUSA took out a protest rally today. Reportedly, at present the University is functioning under 40 rented buildings spreaded along the NH10. SUSA President Lalit Pokhrel Sharma, while talking to newspersons, said that even after 11 years of establishment […]

In a fresh development to the illegal cattle transportation from across Assam via Dhubri to Bangladesh, Moranhat police seized on Thursday two truckloads of cows. Though the drivers and handymen have claimed to possess valid papers, yet they have not been able produce the permission papers when the vehicles were seized. Police investigation is on […]

As many as Eighteen Rohingya refugees, including three children and four women, were arrested on Thursday in Tripura’s Khowai district for entering the country illegally. Based on specific information, the Rohingyas from Myanmar, who had illegally entered Tripura via Bangladesh, were arrested near Teliamura area. According to police the Rohingyas entered the state and were […]

Amid the ongoing process of updation of the National Register of Citizens in Assam, leaders of 28 organisations including the All Assam Students Union met NRC state coordinator Prateek Hajela at the NRC head office to take stock of the proceedings. The organisations demanded that the authorities must ensure that names of illegal migrants does […]