The Naga Rising, a group formed recently to take up the Naga issue has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to appoint a group of Naga interlocutors for early resolution of the decades-long Naga peace talks and help avoid the risk of negotiations breaking down. The group, in its letter to the Prime […]

The Joint Action Committee formed to protest against alleged inaction over the death of a school girl in Manipur has threatened to call a 48-hour general strike if its demands are not met. The Committee has said that it will call the strike from 6 in the morning on 2nd September till 6 am of […]

A recently published report by the Assam Police has shed light on the fact that Assam tops the northeastern region in the number of road accidents that had occurred in the state last year. The report titled ‘An analytical glimpse on road accidents in Assam’ cited that a total of 2,966 people were killed and […]

A delegation of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, an ally of the ruling BJP in Tripura met Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda on Wednesday and placed a five point charter of demands, including their separate statehood demand of Tipraland. The IPFT team comprising of its top leaders met Arjun Munda and submitted a […]

The NRC authorities have issued a fresh public notice saying all those people whose names figure in the complete draft, or those whose names have not appeared in the additional exclusion list, besides those who have not been called for hearings from July 5, 2019 onwards have nothing to worry as their names will certainly […]

With an objective of providing an ecosystem for start-ups to offer guidance, mentoring, physical space and network for funding and value-based collaboration for incubation of novel ideas, an Incubation Centre was inaugurated on Wednesday at North Eastern Hill University in Shillong. The incubation centre was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Social Justice and […]

The final NRC will be published before noon on August 31 with an estimated 70 thousand personnel engaged in the 15 hundred crore mega exercise giving finishing touches to the citizens list. The Assam Government on its part has gone out of its way to remove apprehensions among people by stating clearly in a notification […]

The Arunachal Pradesh Government has come up with a new scheme for developing all roads under the Public Works Department in the State. As per latest official reports, all roads under the PWD will be developed under a five-year plan, which is the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive State Road Plan 2019-24. Under the plan, important inter-State […]

A team of the North East Linguistic and Ethnic Coordination Committee Assam met Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal day at the Administrative Staff College in Guwahati in the presence of Silchar MP Rajdeep Roy and MLA Dilip Paul. During the meeting, the NELECC delegation submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister demanding the government’s intervention to […]

The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) organized a sit-in protest in Mizoram’s Chakma Autonomous District against the recently passed Chakma Autonomous District Council (Land & Revenues) Rules, 2019. The protesters burnt a copy of the bill and demanded its immediate scrapping. The existing Executive Committee of CADC has recently passed the CADC (Land & Revenue) Rules, […]