The Union Home Ministry may soon give the go ahead to increase the number of seats in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly from the current 32 to 40. This was confirmed to Northeast Live by lone Lok Sabha MP from the state P.D. Rai. He said the Home Ministry has already initiated the process for the […]

Less than 24 hours after the twin blasts outside an Assam Rifles post in Imphal west, a powerful IED blast rocked the Manipur capital killing 2 BSF jawans and injuring at least three others. The blast took place outside the gate of the Koirengei sector headquarters of the BSF at around 2pm. The two jawans, […]

National People’s Party president and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma hinted that the NPP will contest from all the seats in the North East in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Conrad was addressing the first of its kind felicitation programme organized by the party to felicitate its ministers and MLAs from Meghalaya, Manipur, and […]

The hearing for the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Barak valley of Assam concluded today. A total of 315 organisations filed their representations before the parliamentary panel. A majority of the organisations filed representations in favour of granting citizenship to religious minorities. Assam has shown clear signs of being divided over the Citizenship Amendment Bill […]

The Assam Congress on Wednesday dared the Asom Gana Parishad to quit the Sarbananda Sonowal cabinet if the party was really opposed to the controversial citizenship amendment bill and said the regional party headed by Atul Bora was trying to fool the people of Assam by pretending to be against the bill of granting citizenship […]

After a big fat wedding, newly wed Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja hosted a grand reception for their colleagues and friends from the film industry at Mumbai’s Leela hotel on Tuesday night. The guest list was a veritable who’s who of Bollywood and a crowd of A-listers were pictured at The Leela hotel. The invitees […]

Zoram People’s Movement, a pre-poll electoral alliance formed by various parties declared Zoram Nationalist Party president and former parliamentarian Lalduhoma as its chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Assembly elections in the State. While addressing a gathering, Lalduhoma pledged reformation and development of Mizoram by bringing dramatic changes to the state’s political system. He said […]

Based on specific inputs regarding presence of NSCN (K) cadres and over ground workers at Mulong village in Changlang District, security forces launched a massive search operation and apprehended two Myanmarese cadres of NSCN(K). The cadres have been identified as 29 years old Kumsai Munwa, hailing from Jokob Village in Myanmar and 25 year old […]

NDPP and NPF have announced their candidates for the upcoming by-elections to the lone Nagaland Lok Sabha seat. While, ruling NDPP has announced Tokheho Yepthomi as their candidate, NPF has announced C Apok Jamir as their candidate. Meanwhile, Senior NPF leader TR Zeliang has lashed out at the Nagaland Chief Minister Nephiu Rio saying that […]

The Meghalaya government on Tuesday decided to oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, proposed by the Centre. Just after AGP, an ally of the BJP in the Assam Government refused to accept the proposed Bill, the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) of the Meghalaya Government has opposed to the proposed Bill. The unanimous decision was taken […]