The 2nd India Open International Boxing Tournament begins on Monday at Sarusajai stadium in Guwahati. As many as 200 players from 16 countries will participate in the tournament. The preliminaries will be held today and tomorrow followed by the quarter-finals and semi-finals, culminating into the grand finale on May 24. The competition will be held […]

The crackdown on illegal drugs trade has intensified in Arunachal Pradesh after two more traffickers landed in the police dragnet on Sunday. The duo has been arrested from the Banderdewa area in Itanagar. Police recovered a huge quantity of suspected brown sugar, intoxicant drug Spasphen Capsule, Nitrosun Tablet, mobile handsets and cash amounting to Rs. […]

After the conclusion of the seventh and the final phase of Lok Sabha election on Sunday, the Election Commission stated that the enforcement agencies have seized unaccounted cash, illicit liquor, drugs, gold and freebies worth around 3,450 crore rupees since the Lok Sabha polls were announced on 10th of March. The seizure is nearly three […]

The exit poll results clearly predicted a BJP comeback on May 23rd. All exit polls barring only two have shown the NDA to be the clear winner with the Congress a distant second. The prediction of the BJP making big inroads in the states of West Bengal and Odisha is significant. The only region where […]

The Election Commission of India on Saturday ordered repoll in 2 polling stations of Arunachal Pradesh. Speaking to media, the Deputy Chief Electorate officer of the state, Liken Kiyo said that the polling booths of 28 Nampe polling station under 21 Koloriang assembly constituency and 6 the Gimba polling station under 20 Tali Assembly Constituency […]

After hectic politicking this election season, Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertakes two-day visit to Uttarakhand beginning on Saturday to pay obeisance at the Himalayan shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath. Dressed in a traditional pahari outfit, Modi offered prayers at the temple’s shrine. He will offer prayers at Badrinath on Sunday. This is the fourth visit of […]

A Myanmar court has sentenced 24 rebels of the ULFA-Independent and other Northeast terror groups to two years in jail. According to the Burma-based Irrawady newspaper, the Hkamti district Court in Sagaing region had issued the verdict sentencing the rebels to imprisonment. The news portal also mentioned that the rebels were arrested on January 29, […]

In a big breakthrough, the Assam Police on Saturday has arrested one more person in connection with Wednesday’s grenade attack in Guwahati carried out by the ULFA-Independent. The arrested person identified as Chinmoy Laskar is currently in the custody of Latasil Police. This is the fifth arrest in the grenade attack case so far with […]

Mizoram has lost its maize cultivation worth Rs 7.65 crore due to the outbreak of crop damaging pest, fall armyworms. Addressing a state-level training programme on scientific management of fall armyworm in Aizawl on Wednesday, agriculture and rural development commissioner and secretary Lalhmingthanga said that the first incident of fall armyworm was reported in south […]

In a big breakthrough for security agencies, in less than 24 hours after the Wednesday’s daring bomb attack in the heart of Guwahati, police has stumbled upon a huge cache of explosives, grenade making equipment’s besides arms and ammunition at a house in the city. The Assam police has raided a house and busted a bomb […]