Police in Tripura’s Khowai district seized huge quantities of brown sugar in wee hours of Monday night. The operation was led by Additional Superintendent of Police of Khowai district Angadulal  Debbarma and SDPO Anirvan Das. The police conducted an operation where in huge amount of brown sugar worth Rupees 5 lakh was recovered from a […]

A drug peddler named Abdul Rafik was arrested from Guwahati after a raid was conducted by CID in the city’s Kahilipara area. 16 cartons containing a banned cough syrup Prodyl were recovered from a vehicle at Dakhingaon Tiniali which led to the owner Rafik’s arrest. It is being estimated that the seized quantity of banned […]

Manipur University has postponed this year’s  postgraduate examinations after an indefinite shutdown by students demanding removal of Vice-Chancellor Adya Prasad Pandey. Reports suggest that examinations had to be cancelled because the agitation has affected all departments and centers at the university’s campus near state capital Imphal. The Manipur University Students’ Union had on May 30 […]

Congress leader and former chief minister Tarun Gogoi has stirred a controversy by expressing doubts that the NRC which is being updated may not be a correct one as names of genuine Indian citizens could be left out of it. Participating in the Northeast Tonight show hosted by Northeast Live Editor-in-Chief  Wasbir Hussain ‎on Monday, […]

ULFA-Independent has released abducted Tea Garden worker Dinnanath Upadhyaya. Upadhyaya was released by the ULFA-Independent near Wara Basti village along the Indo-Myanmar Border in Arunachal Pradesh. This was confirmed to Northeast Live by Upadhyaya’s son, Pratap Upadhayaya. He said that his father called up his family soon after the ULFA-Independent released him and conveyed the […]

A day ahead of the 58th National Inter-State Senior athletics meet in Guwhati, Olympian PT Usha has said the track for the national event is not up to the mark. Interacting with media persons in Guwahati today, PT Usha, also known as the queen of Indian track and field, said while the infrastructure at the […]

Officials of the Kohima Municipal Council along with Food Safety and Standards Authority of India seized four trucks full of formalin-laced fish and dumped it at the KMC dumping ground. Following a surprise check, the KMC and food safety officials intercepted 4 mini trucks carrying fish slated to be delivered in Kohima and Phek districts. […]

The ongoing agitation by Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers’ Group enters its 6th day today. While government remains indifferent to the teachers’ demands of regularisation of their job, the group has now appealed to the State government to utilise other alternative means to regularise their services. The group is agitating for the 4th time now. It […]

The United Democratic Party (UDP) has confirmed that it will contest the Ranikor by-poll despite the fact that its alliance partner NPP is going all out to snatch the seat from the Congress. The by-poll has been necessitated by the resignation of Martin M Danggo as a legislator. Danggo is slated to contest the by-poll […]

In a tragic incident, a 15-year old boy from Silchar was run-over by a Silchar- Guwahati passenger train between Mahur and Phiding on Sunday. The youth was travelling to Guwahati to attend the ongoing Ambabuchi Mela at Guwahati’s Kamakhya Temple. As per reports, the deceased, Riki Das, a resident of Itkhola in Silchar was on […]