The Assam police has arrested 5 auditors for seeking bribe while investigating a case of financial anomalies in various village panchayats in Eastern Assam’s Charaideo district. The officials who had gone from the Auditor General’s office in Guwahati were apprehended from a hotel in Sonari during a hearing into one such corruption case. The arrested […]

The influential Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) today took a tough stand against the non-resolution of the inter-state boundary dispute between Assam and Meghalaya. Staging a sit-in demonstration in Shillong today, the KSU said the Meghalaya government has to find at least a short-term solution to the frequent disputes at the inter-state border. #NEWS | Members […]

Amidst the row over inclusion of names in the National Register of Citizens, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the filing of claims and objections would begin from September 25 and will continue for two months till November 25. A claimant can rely on 10 of the 15 documents mentioned in the list of […]

Union Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar was at Mawklot village in Meghalaya for a Swachhta Hi Seva Programme. While speaking at the programme, Akbar asserted that India’s growth rate had gone high since women had become the central part of economic emancipation. He stressed on the need to invest in women and […]

The Arunachal Pradesh Police has recovered a kidnapped minor girl in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. The operation was carried out by the Special Branch led by Inspector Biswajit Konwar. The 8-year-old was kidnapped by a listed criminal namely Ajit Chakma in the month of July from Dirak Gohaingaon under Bordumsa police station in eastern […]

Professor P Mahanta, who recently took over the charge of director of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Arunachal Pradesh called on Governor BD Mishra at Raj Bhavan. The Director briefed the governor about the institution. During their interaction, Governor BD Mishra advised the director to make concerted efforts in creating conducive academic ambience in […]

The 570th birth anniversary of Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardev was celebrated across Assam today. Followers spread across the state remembered the Saint by offering naam-kirtan at Naamghars. Srimanta Sankardev holds significance in the cultural and religious history of Assam. Srimanta Sankardev is widely credited with building on past cultural relics and devising Borgeet, Ankia naat, Bhaona […]

Investigation into the Assam Hizbul Terror Trail has picked up pace with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) now joining the probe into the Hizbul network in the State. A 4-member NIA team is interrogating the 7 arrested associates of dreaded Hizbul militant Qamer-uz-Zaman in Nagaon’s Doboka PWD Guest House. Eariler, following the arrest of Hizbul […]

In a sensational case of hit-and-run in Guwahati, a speeding car drove into a group of people who were on their way to idol immersion of Lord Ganesha at Kasomari ghat on Tuesday night. The car – reported as a Swift Dzire, soon after the incident fled from the spot in no time. As per […]

The Army shifted Major Leetul Gogoi, who was at the centre of the human shield controversy, out of his unit and attached to local formation headquarters after being indicted by an Army Court of Inquiry for fraternising with a local woman in Srinagar. Last month, the Court of Inquiry instituted by the army indicted Major […]