Lalhriatrenga Chhangte who fought the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate and secured 12,657 votes joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday. Chhangte said he decided to join BJP after having studied the different parties in Mizoram and he thought BJP to be the best choice. Chhangte is of the opinion […]

The Supreme Court has asked the Meghalaya government to stop rescue operations at the coal mine at Ksan in East Jaintia Hills. At least 15 miners were trapped in December last year. The state government is estimated to have spent over Rs 3.5 crore since December 13, 2018 till May 2019 on the operations at […]

In just over a month of being sworn in, the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) government is in deep trouble with the Supreme Court issuing notices to the Centre, Governor Ganga Prasad and Chief Minister PS Golay. The notices were issued in response to a PIL filed by the opposition Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) challenging the […]

The second wave of floods in Assam has hit 4 lakh people across the State. As the flood scenario in Assam has worsened in the past 24 hours. As many as 749 villages in 17 districts of the State has been hit by the second wave of floods. The NDRF and the SDRF personnel have […]

The joint team of officials from India and Myanmar who were on their way to survey the land around border pillar number 82 near Manipur along the border of the two countries was hit by adverse weather with bad road conditions and was stuck for some time before they could reach the location. As far […]

Incidents of severe landslides and floods have come to light from several places across the region this monsoon, another such incident has been reported from Sikkim. Incessant rainfall triggered landslides on Thursday blocking highways in West Bengal’s Darjeeling and Sikkim, cutting off the northeastern state’s capital Gangtok from Siliguri. A massive landslide has hit the […]

Incessant rains, floods and landslides continue to wreak havoc in the region. Tragedy struck in Arunachal Pradesh’ Tawang where two girl students died when the wall of the school hostel where they were putting up collapsed following heavy rainfall which triggered a landslide. The incident took place at the Namtsering Residential School in the wee […]

Valiant fight back from Ravindra Jadeja and Mahendra Singh Dhoni went in vain as India has been knocked out of the World Cup by New Zealand in the semi-final at Old Trafford in Manchester. Chasing a target of 240, India fell short of 18 runs. With the win, New Zealand has now entered the finals […]

As per the latest weather forecast received from the Met department, very heavy rainfall is likely at isolated places in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh during the next three days. There are also reports of flash floods causing devastation in many districts. People of Changling district, especially those who are settled near the river and […]

The Arunachal Pradesh government presented the state budget in the assembly yesterday attaching priority to agriculture and allied sectors while proposing additional import duty on all alcoholic beverages. Presenting the BJP government’s Rs 520.98 crore deficit budget, Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein said thrust was given on agriculture to double farmers’ income by 2022, in […]