A coal laden truck was allegedly set on fire by unidentifed miscreants on Thursday night at Wapungskur village in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district. The 12-wheeler, which was loaded with more than 60 metric ton of coal was meant for coal supply to a cement factory in the district. Meanwhile, the police have started an investigation […]

Big blow to top Congress leader P Chidambaram, the Former Home and Finance Minister has been remanded to five day CBI custody till August 26. #BREAKING | Special CBI Court sends former Union Finance Minister #PChidambaram to CBI custody till August 26. pic.twitter.com/K86iA10V2L — Northeast Live (@NELiveTV) August 22, 2019 The judgement was passed by […]

The DoNER ministry has plans to partially fund Rs 1,000 crores for the proposed Greenfield airport in Nagaland’s capital Kohima. This was conveyed by Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region Jitendra Singh to Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio who called on him in New Delhi on Wednesday along with a delegation of senior […]

Former Tripura PWD Minister and top CPI(M) leader Badal Choudhury appeared before the inquiry officer of the Vigilance Organisation who is investigating a case related to irregularities and misappropriation of funds during Choudhury’s tenure between 2008 and 2009. Badal Choudhury had, on two other occasions evaded the vigilance probe citing the campaigning for Panchayat elections […]

Following a day of dramatic developments, including a high voltage drama at the Supreme Court, former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was arrested by the CBI on Wednesday evening from his residence. Chidambaram, who remained out of contact since Tuesday afternoon, following a Delhi High Court order that ended his interim bail […]

The Naga People’s Front on Wednesday asserted that the party would extend full cooperation for any peaceful and amicable settlement to the vexed Naga political issue. At a time when the talks have almost reached a conclusion, the Nagaland’s opposition party called upon newly appointed Governor RN Ravi to discuss on the ongoing peace talks […]

The police in the border town of Moreh has seized drugs worth Rs 24 crore in two separate incidents. Contraband weighing 9 kilograms were seized from the possession of a man named Khamboumang. In another seizure, brown sugar weighing 8 kg were seized from the possession of a person named Kumar Gurung, who was transporting […]

The Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Mumbai Police has arrested a youth from Dharamtul in Assam’s Morigaon district, on charges of sending a death threat mail to the BCCI against the Indian Cricket team. The arrested youth identified as Braj Mohan Das had sent the mail to the BCCI, threatening to kill players of the cricket […]

The NIA has picked up a businessman based in Eastern Assam’s Tinsukia district in connection with the assassination of Arunachal Pradesh NPP MLA Tirong Aboh and 10 others on May 21. The businessman has been identified as Jaikishan Sharma, who is a close aide of the deceased MLA. Another person who happens to be Tirong […]

Days after the Centre had raised concerns over illegal immigration from Bangladesh to the Northeast, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has termed the process of documenting and identifying illegal immigrants in Assam as India’s internal matter. Jaishankar’s remarks came after he held talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Memon in Dhaka. The remark comes […]