INDO-ASEAN Friendship Car rally under the sponsorship of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport Government of India reached Indo-Myanmar Border Town Moreh today evening and left for Myanmar. The rally was flagged off by Arunachal Pradesh minister of Youth and Sports affairs Dr. Mohesyai. The Rally consists of 24 cars with 64 members from India , […]

A special National Investigation Agency court today delivered the verdict in the infamous mass killings carried out by terror outfit NDFB-Songbijit in 2014. Two of the four NDFB-S cadres identified as Ajay Basumatary and Bishnu Narzary who were earlier convicted by the court were given death sentences. Meanwhile, the other two identified as Nitul Daimari […]

Situation continues to be tense in Doomdooma in Eastern Assam’s Tinsukia district following an offensive post in social media targetting a particular community. Though Section 144 has been clamped in Doomdooma, Borhapjan and Longsowal miscreants set ablaze houses and shops in the Doidam tea estate. It may be mentioned that stray incidents were reported during […]

The Assam police has detained another person who is suspected to have maintained close links with Hizbul Mujahideen militant from Assam Qamer-uz-Zaman who was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad on Thursday. The arrested person has been identified as Omar Farooq. Farooq was arrested from Byrnihat in Meghalaya, who is a resident of Jamunamukh […]

A day after resigning from the home minister position in the Mizoram government, senior Congress leader R Lalzirliana appears to have adopted a defiant posture daring the state Congress to pick any disciplinary action against him. Sources to Northeast Live say, that he is not meeting Chief Minister Lalthanhawla, who was not in his office […]

Its the common man who’s at the receiving end as fuel prices have touched a new high. Petrol prices have been hiked by 40 paise, diesel prices have been hiked by another 32 paise. In Guwahati, petrol prices touched a new high with it being sold at 84 rupees and diesel prices shooting up to […]

Assam agriculture minister Atul Bora has suspended five officials of the district agriculture office for alleged dereliction of duty. The five officials are senior agriculture development officer Someshwar Prasad Verma, head office assistant Abdul Rahman, assistant agriculture inspector Gopi Mohan Goyeri, agriculture development officer Pankaj Chandra Das and agriculture extension officer Suren Prasad. Sources said […]

Just after a fortnight of the Bodh Gaya shocker where a Buddhist monk was arrested for alleged sexual abuse of 15 boys from Assam’s Karbi Anglong. 18 minor boys from Tripura have returned back to the state after being physically assaulted in the educational institution they were studying at. The entire incident came to light […]

A 27-year-old man was thrashed to death by an irate mob on suspecting him to be a car lifter. This is the second such incident that took place in the Northeast after two young boys from Guwahati were mob lynched in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. The deceased has been identified as Md Farooq, a resident […]

The Assam Police on Saturday detained a student for allegedly maintaining links with terror outfit Hijbul Mujahideen and Qamer-uz-Zaman who was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday. According to top sources, the detainee Saidul Alom is a college student in Nagaon who had gone missing three months ago and was picked up for interrogation from […]