The congress in Mizoram has suffered another major blow before the crucial elections with a sitting party MLA Dr. Buddha Dhan Chakma declining to contest his Tuichawng seat on a Congress ticket. Dr. Chakma has written to Congress president and Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla informing him of his decision not to contest his seat as […]

The Tripura High Court has put a stay order on the registration cancellation of ‘Daily Desher Katha’, a 40-year old news paper which is also considered to be the mouthpiece of the CPI-M. The registration was cancelled on the grounds of the paper’s ownership recently by a magistrate and also by the Registrar of Newspapers […]

47 accused persons involved in the infamous Dokomoka lynching case was produced before the Nagaon district court today. The Gauhati High court had ordered the case be transferred to Nagaon district court from the Diphu CJM court and fast track probe into the horrific incident of mob lynching that had sent shock-waves across the region. […]

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to Centre and BSNL operators asking reply on plea seeking to quash an agreement for use of ‘outdated’ 2G technology in Arunachal Pradesh and two districts of Assam. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta issued notices as the petitioner claimed that 2G technology […]

The Rumi Kumari Phukan bench of the Gauhati High Court has granted bail to 4 more officers accused in APSC cash for job scam. The officers who have been granted bail are Hemanta Hillol Saikia, Jyotirmoi Adhikari, Jatindra Prasad Barua and Debajit Bora. Earlier, the court had granted bail to 17 APS and ACS officers, […]

The two-day long executive committee meeting of the Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party began today at Majuli in Assam. About 61 party MLAs, 11 ministers and several national leaders attended the event. Several topics such as the parliamentary elections, the upcoming state elections, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and others are discussed at the […]

A firing incident took place near the Indo-Bangladesh border at Assam’s Karimganj district. The incident happened late Tuesday night after a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan opened fire at his colleague after getting into an argument. Shiv Yogi Pandey opened fire at Ashok Kumar Khangariya in the incident which left Khangariya dead on the spot. […]

A major fire broke out at the Fancy Bazar area of Guwahati late Tuesday night. The fire broke at the godown of a business establishment at Kamala Market. While the fire engulfed most parts of the building, the fire brigade managed to rescue four people from the spot. Three of the rescued persons are undergoing […]

The Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council will soon table the Khasi Social Custom of Lineage (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to strip the Schedule Tribe status of Khasi women who marries non-Khasi men and their offspring’s, in its upcoming special session after the Consultative Committee submitted its report to the Council. The report and recommendations of […]

In a shocking incident, motorcycle borne unidentified miscreants shot dead the Assistant Manager of SBI’s Dadara branch from a point blank range. The incident happened in the middle of a busy road at Agyathuri in Kamrup-Rural district near Guwahati on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Junu Sharma. The incident happened at a time […]