The demand for a separate Garoland is getting louder in Meghalaya with the Garoland State Movement Council today staged a massive protest at the Additional Secretariat. The members of the GSMC demonstrated by holding placards and chanting slogans demanding separate Garoland. GSMC Chairman, Nikman Ch Marak while speaking to Northeast Live said that the demand […]

Former BSF jawan Gyanendra Rajkhowa who was shot at by the police after he injured as many as 4 voters near a polling station in Golaghat, has succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. 4 persons sustained grievous injuries after Gyanendra Rajkhowa attacked them with a machete near a polling station while voting for the […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Bogibeel Bridge on December 25, India’s longest rail-road bridge over the river Brahmaputra. The 4.94 km long Bogibeel Bridge connects north and south banks of Brahmaputra in eastern Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. December 25 is observed as good governance day annually to celebrate the birth anniversary of former […]

Voting is underway across 16 administrative districts of Assam, as close to 1 crore people are exercising their franchise in the first phase of panchayat polls today. The electorate are casting votes in a total of 14,077 polling stations across these districts. The voting which started at 7am is slated to continue till 3pm and […]

Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling inaugurated the new Secretariat building in Gangtok today. The new secretariat building replaces the historic Tashiling Secretariat which was damaged by the powerful 2011 earthquake that caused widespread destruction in the state. The building was constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 264 crore.

The stage is all set for the first phase of polling for the Panchayat elections in Assam on December 5. As 16 districts of the state go to polls for Panchayat elections tomorrow, polling officers reached their respective polling stations on Tuesday morning. And as many as, 1799 of the total 14077 polling stations where […]

Sensational incident of violence against women comes to light in Assam after the half burnt body of a woman was recovered from Naharbari in Mangaldoi district. According to reports, the woman was declared brought-dead by hospital authorities. Surprisingly, the husband of the deceased is an Assam Police personnel. Although no FIR has been lodged into […]

A shocking incident of firing comes to fore at Dergaon in Assam’s Jorhat district. Two motorcycle-borne miscreants allegedly sneaked inside Assam Oil’s Universal Agency Petrol station on Monday night. According to reports, one of the miscreants who was wearing a helmet, entered the cash counter in the pretext of getting a change of Rs 500. […]

After Northeast Live highlighted the plight of the family members of Late Havildar Hangpan Dada who was martyred while fighting terrorists in Kashmir in 2016, reactions have poured in extending support to Dada’s family members. Director of the Directorate of Sainik Welfare Assam, Brigadier Joshi Narain Dutt has stepped in to extend his support to […]

Campaigning for Assam’s most politically divided Panchayat polls comes to an end this afternoon with the BJP and its alliance partner Asom Gana Parishad not only battling each other but also engaged in an unprecedented war of words. The opposition Congress and the AIUDF are the two other main political players in the fray but […]