The agitation of the 2015 batch of the All Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers Group outside the Directorate of School Education in Kohima entered its second day today. Holding a banner which read “Give us our legitimate rights; justice delayed is justice denied”, the ad hoc teachers numbering 1166 who had cleared their suitability test on […]

Tripura Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma today presented the state’s deficit-free Budget of Rs 16,387.21 crore for the 2018-19 fiscal. The Budget outlay for the current fiscal has seen an increase of over 14 per cent, 14.62 to be precise. The government also proposed Cess on petrol and diesel of Rs 1.15 and Rs […]

The influential Nagaland Tribes Council has slammed the attack on the Assam Rifles convoy by NSCN-K and ULFA-Independent insurgents in Mon district of Nagaland on Sunday. In a release issued moments earlier, the Nagaland Tribes Council said such incidents only threaten to harm the ongoing negotiation process whcih aims to find a solution to the […]

A delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal, Delhi and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee along with its members from Guwahati called on Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong today and urged the state government to resolve the Sweeper Lane issue with a humane touch. The delegation first visited the Sweeper Colony to take stock of […]

One of Bollywood’s most celebrated director Imtiaz Ali was in Kohima today. Ali was in Kohima to attend the launch of Youth Net, a fellowship program by Godrej. The main objective of the fellowship is to promote and empower youths, to encourage entrepreneurship and to expand its network. Altogether 23 entrepreneurs in the beauty industry […]

Music Maestro and Sikkim Tourism Brand Ambassador, AR Rahman is in Sikkim shooting for his promotional video for Sikkim Tourism. The music maestro was shooting for the promotional video at Ta-thang-chen in Gangtok, composition for which was done by Rahman himself.

The Centre has decided to enhance the infrastructure facilities of 700 colleges in Northeast. Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said that Northeast has been given priority under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) programme. As part of the programme 700 colleges in the region have been selected where the laboratories will be upgraded.

Assam Rifles Jawan Alom Hussain, who received grievous injuries in the ambush at Aboi in Nagaland’s Mon district, succumbed to his injuries last night. The jawan was under treatment at the IAF Hospital in Jorhat. The total number of security personnel killed in the ambush now rises to 3. Meanwhile, last respects were paid to […]

Death toll in the recent wave of floods in Assam has mounted to 19. This comes after a 22 year old boy identified as Tafajjul Ali was washed away by flood waters in Telahi Jaanpar of Morigaon district. According to state disaster management authority, the Dhansiri, Barak, Katakhal and Kushiyara rivers are flowing above the […]

In a tragic incident, a Mother-daughter duo was killed in a massive fire that broke out late yesterday night at Deori village under Bordumsa police station in Tinsukia district of Assam. While the mother has been identified as Jaya Deori, the daugher has been identified as Saya Mani Deori. The fire reportedly broke out in a grocery […]