Adding another feather to its cap, the North East Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Science (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong, after securing the third and second places in the ranking of Group B Hospitals and Institutions for public health facilities countrywide in 2016 and 17 respectively, has finally bagged the first place for the 2017-2018 […]

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has grabbed attention with his claim that internet and satellite technologies are not something new but existed since the era of the Mahabharata. Speaking at a Regional Workshop on Computerization and Reforms at Pragna Bhawan in Agartala, Chief Minister Biplab Deb said that the internet was invented by India […]

In a shocking incident unidentified miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at the residence of one of the senior journalists of Meghalaya Patricia Mukhim, the Editor of The Shillong Times newspaper at Shillong in Meghalaya late yesterday evening. The incident took place at around 8:30 in the evening when two motorcycle borne youths hurled a petrol […]

Income Tax Commissioner (Audit) of Guwahati Swetabh Suman and three others, who were arrested on Friday while taking Rs 40 lakh as bribe, have been remanded in CBI custody for three more days after they were produced before the Special CBI judge in Guwahati yesterday. Although the CBI had sought an extension of their remand […]

14 organisations from Assam have threatened to launch a mass agitation if the government decides to go ahead with the proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016. The organisations have warned that if the amendment bill is passed forcefully it will lead to widespread mass agitation. Briefing the media after attending a Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting to […]

As crimes against women go unabated in Assam, two more heinous incidents of rape has now sent ripples across the state raising apprehensions about safety of women. One of the worst cases ever, a 20 year old girl was raped and left to die along the National Highway 54 at Kopahbari in Hojai district of […]

Several students’ organisations in Manipur took to the streets demanding the appointment of a local as the state’s chief secretary. A joint protest march was organized by members of the Democratic Student Alliance of Manipur or DESAM, the Apunba Iramdam Imagi Meiheiroi Singpanglup and All Tribal Students Union of Manipur or the ATSUM in Imphal […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Sweden late night on Monday as part of the India-Nordic Summit. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven received Prime Minister Modi at the airport with a warm handshake. This is the first prime ministerial visit from India to Sweden in 30 years after the visit of Rajiv Gandhi in […]

The Meghalaya Government on Monday signed a USD 48 million agreement with the World Bank in New Delhi to reduce poverty in the hill State by boosting incomes of the communities and traditional institutions and making them the catalyst to reduce poverty through management of the depleting natural resources. The loan agreement meant for the […]

Amid a renewed push by Meghalaya government, environmentalists and activists in the state have demanded that only scientific mining should be allowed in the state taking into account the damage to environment the activity has caused till date. Meanwhile, Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma along with his cabinet colleagues called on Union Coal Minister Piyush […]