At least 5 houses were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in Guwahati’s Maligaon locality in the wee hours today. A person identified as Dulu Singh received minor injuries in the fire. 7 fire tenders had to be pressed into service to douse the fire. Properties worth lakhs of rupees were destroyed in […]

Barely a month after the horrific mob lynching incident in Karbi Anglong where two youths from Guwahati were brutally thrashed to death, yet another case of mindless assault on innocent has come to light from the hill district. In a latest incident, a lorry driver was allegedly assaulted by a group of people along the […]

Senior IPS officer Talia-khum John Longkumer on Wednesday took charge as the Director General of Police of Nagaland. Longkumer, upon his arrival, was accorded the guard of honour at the police headquarters. After assuming charge, Longkumer held a meeting with senior police officers and interacted with them. Expressing happiness to be back home and to […]

The Gauhati High Court has granted bail to 26 out of the 54 accused in the infamous Silapathar incident that rocked the State of Assam March last year. However, prime accused in the Silapathar incident, Nikhil Bharat Bengali Udbastu Samanway Samitee president Subodh Biswas has not been granted bail yet. Earlier, on March 6 last […]

Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong, reacting on the vexed Assam-Meghalaya interstate boundary dispute issue, said that the only solution to the problem is to adopt a give and take policy. Tynsong, while stating that the state government would prefer a meeting between the two Chief Ministers on the issue, said that if both the […]

World Champions Germany spectacularly crashed out of the Group stage of the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2018 as Video Assistant Referee helped South Korea to a 2-0 scoreline to finish Die Mannschaft’s hopes of retaining their crown. This continues the trend of reigning World Cup champions failing to make it to the knockout rounds in […]

Flood waters of the Khingora river has wreaked havoc in Assam’s Lakhimpur district. The river which is in full spate has inundated vast areas of the district in Naoboicha, Dolohat besides washing away several houses. Hundreds of people have been displaced in the fresh wave of devastating floods. Meanwhile, flood waters have submerged the National […]

Massive gunfire has been reported from Chen Basti in Mon district of Nagaland near the Indo-Myanmar international border. Heavy exchange of fire between the NSCN-K cadres and security forces, reportedly began this afternoon. According to the Mon district DC, the security forces had surrounded a camp of the NSCN-K.

The Shillong Police making some shocking revelations today, East Khasi Hills SP Davis Marak revealed that Shillong is turning into a major centre and transit route for drug trafficking. What is more worrying according to the East Khasi Hills SP is indication that insurgent groups from the region are involved in the drug trade in […]

People took to the streets in Manipur to protest against the report of the international weightlifting federation which declared that Commonwealth games medal winner Sanjita Chanu tested positive for a banned drug recently. The Proletarian Feminist Movement of Manipur along with 9 civil society organisations and joint action committee formed against commonwealth games medal winner […]