The Idu Mishmi community of Arunachal Pradesh celebrated the Kemmeha Festival yesterday at the Lower Dibang district. State Minister Dr Mohesh Chai was the chief guest of the function. Speaking on the occasion, the minister stressed on the need to keep the rich culture of Arunachal Pradesh alive. Several local MLAs and Rajya Sabha MP […]

Health services in the Tripura Medical college is likely to be adversely affected following cease work strike by the junior doctors. The doctors in the medical institute have resorted to sit-in-strike alleging differences in payband as compared with the doctors of the Agartala government medical college. As per inputs, doctors of the Agartala government medical […]

The process to file claims and objections in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) began on Tuesday. The process will continue for a period of two months till November 29. A person whose name is not included in either the part draft or the complete draft of NRC, will have to submit prescribed documents to get […]

As many as four Deans of the Dibrugarh University have tendered their resignations. The resignations were handed over to the Vice Chancellor Dr Ranjit Tamuli on Monday. The Deans who resigned stated that they felt humiliated by withdrawal of a certain section in a notification issued by the VC without taking them into confidence. The […]

The Manipur university community has rejected the ongoing probe into the allegations against controversial and now suspended vice chancellor AP Pandey by a 2-member inquiry committee and has demanded institution of a judicial commission to examine the charges under the Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the […]

As many as two ULFA-I militants sustained serious injuries in a fierce encounter that took place between security forces and a group of suspected ULFA-I militants at Kotha Reserve forest near Jagun in eastern Assam’s Tinsukia district. The Army has also recovered an IED weighing 3 kg, live grenades of UBGL (Under Barrel Grenade Launcher), […]

The Sivasagar police has filed the chargesheet in connection with the twin brutal gangrape and murder cases in moving trains within a span of 24 hours on July 11. The 12 page chargesheet was filed before the Nazira sub-divison judicial magistrate court. Earlier, a 21 year old college student and a 48 year old woman […]

Six student organisations of Manipur including the AMSU, DESAM and MSF have called for a 48-hour general strike throughout the state from the midnight of September 26 in protest against the recent crackdown by police at the Manipur University campus. All six organisations have highly condemned the incident and have demanded the unconditional release of […]

Three persons arrested on charges of acting as middlemen in the recruitment of Agriculture Development Officers in Assam have been sent to judicial custody. The trio identified as Bikash Pincha, Kaushik Kalita and Kunal Das were already lodged in Guwahati central jail for their involvement in the APSC cash-for-job scam. The police had rearrested the […]

The Sankardev Nagar (Sadar) sessions court in Assam’s Nagaon district on Monday remanded Abhimanyu Chauhan to 10-day police custody after he was arrested on charges of supplying firearms to Hizbul Mujahideen terror links operating from Assam. Chauhan was arrested from Hatikhuli in Karbi Anglong district. Security agencies have stepped up activities to nail Hizbul terror […]