The Ministry of Home Affairs has advised the Assam Government that no action should be initiated by the Administration or the police based on the Draft NRC. The MHA said that the people are entitled to file claims & objections and due opportunity has to be given to them before final publication. The MHA has […]

Continuing the crackdown into the APSC cash-for-job scam, Dibrugarh police have raided the residence of Surajit Choudhury, who was earlier arrested by police for attempting to bribe a judge for acquiring anticipatory bail for arrested APS, ACS and other allied service officers. A team of police officials led by investigating officer Surjit Singh Panesar raided […]

Thousands of teachers are threatening to commit mass suicide over long delay of their salary payments in Assam. Teachers from 24 districts have threatened to commit suicide which amount to a total of 9,238 individuals. These are teachers who were appointed between 1991 and 2001, but have not received their salaries for a long time. […]

The Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) has approved a social custom that aims to strip a Khasi woman of her Scheduled Tribe status and her other privileges if she marries a Non-Khasi men. According to the Khasi Hills Autonomous District, Khasi Social Custom of Lineage, Second amendment Bill, 2018, that was passed on Wednesday, […]

In a tragic incident reported from Choto Miapara village at Mehendipathar in Meghalaya’s North Garo Hills district, at least 5 people were killed and 3 received grievous injuries when they came in contact with live electric cable at a time when they were engaged in a road construction work. All those seriously injured have been […]

In a shocking incident, body of a newborn baby was found on an Air Asia flight that was travelling to Delhi from Imphal via Guwahati on Wednesday. The baby appeared to have been delivered on board in the washroom and had toilet paper stuffed in its mouth. According to police, the mother of the newborn […]

The Itanagar Bench of the Gauhati High Court in a landmark judgement declared the Arunachal Pradesh Parliamentary Secretaries Act, 2007 as unconstitutional. After this landmark judgement there will be no parliamentary secretaries in Arunachal Pradesh. Meanwhile, Government spokesperson Bamang Felix has informed Northeast Live that the Arunachal Pradesh Government has no problem in abolishing the […]

The Special Court today rejected the bail plea of arrested APS official Pallabi Sharma. This is the second time since the APS official was arrested last week that the special court has rejected her bail plea. Pallabi in her bail plea mentioned of being a kidney donor to her father, who is currently undergoing treatment […]

The Meghalaya government imposed a 15 day ban on the import and sale of fish from outside the state after laboratory tests detected traces of formalin in some imported fish. Speaking on the ban, chief minister Conrad Sangma said the ban has been imposed as the health and well being of the people of the […]

Rangjuli and Dhanubhanga regions in the state’s Goalpara district are reeling under serious incidents of elephant raiding human settlements and causing damages to properties. People are spending sleepless nights in several villages. On Tuesday night, a large herd of elephants raided the Soruwadol village in the Dhanubhanga region and destroyed several houses. One family barely […]