Another case of mob violence has come to the fore in the region with the latest incident coming in from Nagaland. A mob thrashed and paraded an accused rapist around the town of Longleng yesterday after he was apprehended by the locals. The accused rapist had allegedly raped a 15 year old minor on July […]

Arunachal Pradesh is likely to roll back the anti-conversion law which was passed in the year 1978 mainly to check proselytization. Reacting to Chief Minister Pema Khandu’s latest plans to repeal the anti-conversion law, the Nyishi Indigenous Faith and Cultural Society has said that such an act can potentially damage the very basic structure of […]

The Governor of Sikkim, Srinivas Patil along with the first lady Rajani Devi met The Dalai Lama in New Delhi today. The couple received blessings from the holiness and exchanged greetings. Meanwhile, they also offered a traditional Buddhist scarf called “Khadas” to the spiritual leader wishing him good health.

5 personnel of the Indo-Tibetian Border Police were killed on the spot while a dozen others sustained serious injuries due to stone felling in Lower Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh. A bus carrying the ITBP personnel was on its way to Likabali in Lower Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh. The injured have been rushed to a […]

The Arunachal Pradesh Government has handed over the Toko Yame case to CBI. This latest development follows widespread protest in the State demanding the handing over of the case to the CBI. It may be mentioned that Toko Yame was a 16 year old student whose decomposed body was recovered by a search team in […]

Minister of state Health and family, Assam, Pijush Hazarika continues his tirade against adulterated food items in Guwahati. The minister carried on with his series of raids in the city and today he conducted raids at the local fish market at the Lokhora Chariali locality, where huge stocks of fish imported from outside are stored. […]

The 2011 census released by the Census authorities has revealed that percentages of Assamese, Bodo, Rabha and Mishing language speakers have declined. Significantly, percentages of Bengali and Hindi speakers in the state have increased over the decade 2001-2011. As per the report, the percentage of Assamese-speaking people in Assam has further declined to 48.38 percent […]

The All Nagaland Ad Hoc Teachers Group’s resumed its hunger strike today outside the office of the Directorate of Education in Kohima. The demand drafted by the All Nagaland Ad Hoc Teachers on June 27 did not get much positive response from the Government and the teachers’ group has therefore collectively now resolved to resume […]

Elephant menace continues to prevail in Assam as incident of man-elephant continue to come in with each passing day. A large herd of elephants has been terrorising several villages of Rongjuli in Goalpara district. Several houses and properties have been damaged by the marauding jumbos. The herd of elephants descended among human habitations from the […]

Another incident of mob lynching has come to fore in the state of Tripura. This time the incident has been reported from the state’s South District where a mob thrashed a person to death. The incident took place yesterday at the remote Kalachara village under the Subroom subdivision. The victim Sukanta Chakroborty, an employee of […]