Three luminaries from Assam have been selected for this year’s prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi award. The three recipients are noted Sattriya dance exponents Oja Jagannath Bayan, Ramkrishna Talukdar and noted theater personality Nuruddin Ahmed. Bayan and Talukdar have been life long exponents of Assam’s famed Sattriya dance. On the other hand, Ahmed has been awarded […]

The joint survey of the Land Records Department of the Municipal Board and the Syiem of the Hima Mylliem started at the Sweeper colony in Shillong today. No sooner had the survey started, a group of residents all females of the colony staged a silent demonstration at the petrol pump in the colony demanding rehabilitation […]

In a shocking incident, parents abandon their specially abled child under a bridge at Dhanubhanga in Assam’s Goalpara district. Unable to take care of the seven year old because of his specially abled nature, the parents decided to abandon him. Both the parents were picked up by police from a rented house in Guwahati’s Bhetapara area […]

The flood situation in Assam has witnessed slight improvement with let up in rainfall and flood water receding in several places. However, many areas in 5 districts namely Nagaon, Hojai, Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj still remain under water. According to a data released by the state disaster management authority, a total of 5.14 lakh people […]

In a bid to tackle militancy in Assam a special training session conducted by the National Investigation Agency began today at the Assam police headquarters with a three day long programme. The special training session is being called following directives of the Ministry of Home Affairs. During the training session top officials of the NIA […]

Nagaland Governor P. B. Acharya has condemned the attack on the Assam Rifles convoy by the ULFA-Independent and the NSCN-Khaplang. In a press release , the Governor stated that such violence has no place in the society and ppealed to the NSCN-K to shun violence and restore its ceasefire with the Centre. Governor Acharya also […]

Two NSCN-K cadres have been apprehended by police at Arunachal Pradesh’s Longding district and eastern Assam’s Charaideo district. The two militants were nabbed during search operations. They have been identified as Angam Bangsu and Paras Gurung. Search operations had been on since Saturday. Both these cadres have been charged with illegally extorting money for NSCN-K. […]

A major train mishap was averted in Tripura due to immense presence of mind and act of bravery by a young man. Due to incessant rain for the last few days, Tripura has witnessed many landslides and one such incident occurred on a railway track that connects Dharmanagar to Agartala which led to derailing of […]

India and Bangladesh government have jointly approved the setting up of border haats in the Raghna area of North district and the Kamalpur area of Dhalai district on the India-Bangladesh border of Tripura. In addition, proposals have been sent to the Centre by the Tripura Government to set up four other border haats in the […]

In a shocking news coming in from Shillong, a three week old baby was murdered after a hardened criminal allegedly snatched the baby and drowned it in a bucket filled with cold water on the roof top of the house in Mission compound area of the city. According to East Khasi Hills SP Davis Marak, […]