With less than 10 days to go for the December 15 Supreme Court deadline for filing claims and objections to the NRC updation process, only 9 lakh out of the 40 lakh people left out of the list have staked claim for inclusion of their names in the Citizenship list. The number of objections challenging […]

Meghalaya Police on Tuesday night recovered the body of a young girl from a stream in Shillong. According to Police, the girl had gone missing from November 30 and her body was recovered from the bank of the river Umshyrpi. The deceased girl was a 23-year-old resident of Nongmynsong. Police suspect that the girl has […]

Former Rajya Sabha MP from Mizoram, Lalhming Liana, has been sentenced to three-year imprisonment by a Delhi court for forging air tickets to claim reimbursement of travel allowance. Special CBI Judge N K Malhotra convicted Lalhming Liana for the offences of cheating, forgery and using the forged document as genuine under the provisions of Indian […]

The demand for a separate Garoland is getting louder in Meghalaya with the Garoland State Movement Council today staged a massive protest at the Additional Secretariat. The members of the GSMC demonstrated by holding placards and chanting slogans demanding separate Garoland. GSMC Chairman, Nikman Ch Marak while speaking to Northeast Live said that the demand […]

Former BSF jawan Gyanendra Rajkhowa who was shot at by the police after he injured as many as 4 voters near a polling station in Golaghat, has succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. 4 persons sustained grievous injuries after Gyanendra Rajkhowa attacked them with a machete near a polling station while voting for the […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Bogibeel Bridge on December 25, India’s longest rail-road bridge over the river Brahmaputra. The 4.94 km long Bogibeel Bridge connects north and south banks of Brahmaputra in eastern Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. December 25 is observed as good governance day annually to celebrate the birth anniversary of former […]

Voting is underway across 16 administrative districts of Assam, as close to 1 crore people are exercising their franchise in the first phase of panchayat polls today. The electorate are casting votes in a total of 14,077 polling stations across these districts. The voting which started at 7am is slated to continue till 3pm and […]

Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling inaugurated the new Secretariat building in Gangtok today. The new secretariat building replaces the historic Tashiling Secretariat which was damaged by the powerful 2011 earthquake that caused widespread destruction in the state. The building was constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 264 crore.

The stage is all set for the first phase of polling for the Panchayat elections in Assam on December 5. As 16 districts of the state go to polls for Panchayat elections tomorrow, polling officers reached their respective polling stations on Tuesday morning. And as many as, 1799 of the total 14077 polling stations where […]

Sensational incident of violence against women comes to light in Assam after the half burnt body of a woman was recovered from Naharbari in Mangaldoi district. According to reports, the woman was declared brought-dead by hospital authorities. Surprisingly, the husband of the deceased is an Assam Police personnel. Although no FIR has been lodged into […]