Three persons including a traditional head of a village in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills are feared drowned in the Prang River near India-Bangladesh border. The three-Elios Swear, the Dolloi of Rymbai Elaka, his brother in law and nephew were among the six people who had ventured into the area when the incident took place. The […]

The rousing strains of ‘Jana Gana Mana’, the  was played out by an American Army band during the joint Indo-US military exercise in Washington. The American troops played ‘Jana Gana Mana’ on their trumpets on Wednesday, the concluding day of the ‘Yudh Abhyas 2019’ exercise. Interestingly, Indian origin American soldier, Staff Sergeant Ranbir Kaur was […]

Amid great cheers from sport lovers, the Northeast Zone Inter-State Badminton Championship 2019 kick-started on Thursday in Sikkim with a sporting spirit among players. A total of 160 players from eight northeastern states participated in the event. The four-day long championship is being organized by the Badminton Association of Sikkim The championship has live scoring […]

The Centre is committed to conclude the long pending Naga issue by the end of this year, the assurance came from BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav who was addressing a meeting on abrogation of Article 371. Ram Madhav said that for ensuring lasting peace and prosperity in Nagaland, the Peace Talks needed to be […]

The lone bridge connecting Tali circle at Kra Daadi district in Arunachal Pradesh with the rest of the country has collapsed. With this breakdown, the Tali assembly constituency has been cut off from the rest of the state as it does not have any alternative road connection. After the only transportation means to Tali which […]

Twenty-two-year-old Sekulu Nyekha from Nagaland is among the youngest chosen by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to be the ‘new generation of family planning leaders’. Earlier last week, Nyekha was selected for the ‘120 under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders’, an initiative by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to raise […]

At the recently concluded Track Asia Cup 2019 held at the Yamuna Veledrome in Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in New Delhi, Ace cyclist Ronaldo Laitonjam from Manipur made history when he broke the Asian record in the men’s junior 200-m time trial event, besides winning four gold medals. The 17-year-old cyclist smashed the record by […]

Officer-in-charge of the Burha Police Station and prime accused in the inhuman torture case, Mahendra Sarma and co-accused, lady police constable Binita Boro has been suspended. Sarma had been the head of the team from the Burha police station that allegedly picked up three sisters and a brother-in-law of an accused from Guwahati on September […]

Dr Anindita Priyadarshini Das has bagged four gold medals at the 8th Women and Men Open Masters Commonwealth Powerlifting Championship at Newfoundland in Canada. 52-year-old Anindita won the four golds in the women’s power lifting section. A mother of two and a gynaecologist by profession, Anindita is the first women body builder from Dibrugarh and […]

The Itanagar bench of the Gauhati High Court has ordered for reconduct of the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Combined Competitive Preliminary examination 2017. The court’s ruling came after a petition was filed alleging anomalies in the conduct of the examinations. Another petition was filed alleging that candidates who had cleared the prelims were prevented from […]