The opposition Congress in Arunachal Pradesh has launched a scathing attack on the state government over the scam surrounding payment of compensation money for acquiring land for the trans Arunachal highway and has directly blamed Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein of having a hand in it. Demanding the resignation of Deputy chief minister Chowna Mein […]

The Arunachal Pradesh government will have to pay Rs 5000 each to 88 schoolgirls who were allegedly forced to undress by the school teachers as punishment during an incident last year. The National Human Rights Commission had sent notices to the Arunachal Pradesh state government and the Union HRD Ministry to pay the amount as […]

Ranju Singh, wife of detained army personnel Dharamvir Singh, who has been allegedly detained by some army personnel, has filed a complaint with the police in Imphal. Singh, who is a lieutenant colonel, is the officer commanding M-sector Imphal. Singh had reportedly been taken away by a team, of ten army jawans led by Lieutenant […]

With a view to repatriate the displaced persons of the Bru community to Mizoram after they had to leave the state following ethnic clashes around two decades ago, a meeting was convened by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh with Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb and Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla. Reportedly, a spokesperson of the […]

Man-elephant conflict continues to be a cause of concern in Assam. Elephants have come out of the confines of the Kaziranga National Park due to excessive flooding and food shortage in the park areas. This has led to unrest among the villages near the park’s periphery as the pack of jumbos have started targeting these […]

Ranger Paneswar Das has been arrested in Assam’s Golaghat district. Along with Das, ten other personnel from the forest department of Golaghat have also been arrested. The arrested have been charged with letting illegal sand mining rackets flourish in forest areas. Among the ten arrested, Abdul Millu and Mulul Ali Hazarika have been arrested earlier. […]

In a tragic incident, a massive fire broke out at Daporijo in Arunachal Pradesh yesterday, where four houses were gutted in fire and reduced to ashes, while six families were rendered homeless. According to reports, the fire suddenly broke out from a house which later on spread to the adjoining houses of the forest colony. […]

Assam continues to face a daunting flood scenario. Incessant rains in Assam’s Chirang district have made rivers like Aai, Nangalbhanga, Makra and Champa to overflow and cause floods, causing several villages to be submerged. Floods caused by the Aai river has submerged the Majarbari village at Bijni. Several major rivers of the Chirang district and […]

The Assam Police is taking all precautionary steps to ensure there is no threat to law and order in the state in the wake of the publication of the second and final draft of the NRC. With the final draft of the NRC scheduled to be published on July 30th now, Assam DGP Kuladhar Saikia […]

Another arrest has been made by the police in connection with the horrific Dokmoka lynching case. The arrested person has been identified as Wares Rongpi. This latest arrest takes the total tally of arrested persons regarding the case to a total of 47 currently. It is to be mentioned that the brutal mob lynching incident, […]