The Sivasagar police has filed the chargesheet in connection with the twin brutal gangrape and murder cases in moving trains within a span of 24 hours on July 11. The 12 page chargesheet was filed before the Nazira sub-divison judicial magistrate court. Earlier, a 21 year old college student and a 48 year old woman […]

Six student organisations of Manipur including the AMSU, DESAM and MSF have called for a 48-hour general strike throughout the state from the midnight of September 26 in protest against the recent crackdown by police at the Manipur University campus. All six organisations have highly condemned the incident and have demanded the unconditional release of […]

Three persons arrested on charges of acting as middlemen in the recruitment of Agriculture Development Officers in Assam have been sent to judicial custody. The trio identified as Bikash Pincha, Kaushik Kalita and Kunal Das were already lodged in Guwahati central jail for their involvement in the APSC cash-for-job scam. The police had rearrested the […]

The Sankardev Nagar (Sadar) sessions court in Assam’s Nagaon district on Monday remanded Abhimanyu Chauhan to 10-day police custody after he was arrested on charges of supplying firearms to Hizbul Mujahideen terror links operating from Assam. Chauhan was arrested from Hatikhuli in Karbi Anglong district. Security agencies have stepped up activities to nail Hizbul terror […]

Meghalaya government has submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Road Transport to consider sanctioning of more highway projects in the state. Deputy Chief Minister, Prestone Tynsong, said that the state government is focused on new projects and have submitted a proposal for the creation of three highways. Not divulging much detail, he said that […]

A major disaster was averted on Monday in Assam’s Lakhimpur district when at least 40 people had a lucky escape after the engine of the boat they were travelling in developed some technical snag and stopped functioning mid way on the Subansiri River, creating panic among the passengers. All the passengers were rescued later by […]

The Autumn Session of the Assam Legislative Assembly began on a stormy note on Monday as opposition MLAs raised the NRC update issue and hike in fuel prices. BJP MLA Shiladitya Dev took his protest against NRC to the House. He staged a unique protest with placards in his hand, demanding a fair deal for […]

A man was found dead aboard a train at Chabua Siding in Assam’s Dibrugarh district. The man was travelling by the Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express and was slated to deboard the train Namrup station. Reports say that the man was murdered and thrown away from the train by the culprits. Police are currently investigating the matter.

Sikkim got its first airport on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the  airport in Pakyong, about 30 kms from the capital city of Gangtok. Pakyong airport will play an important role in connecting Sikkim with the rest of India. The first passenger flight, a Spicejet flight, will land at Pakyong airport from Kolkata on […]

Bhupen Hazarika’s close associate and Veteran film maker Kalpana Lajmi is no more. Eminent bollywood personalities like Shabana Azmi, Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan arrived at Oshiwara Crematorium in Mumbai today to pay their last tributes to filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi, who breathed her last this morning. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal too paid his last […]