Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma presented a Rs 2149 crore deficit budget in the state Assembly today. This is the first e-budget presented by the government, making it the first state in the northeast to present a digital budget and second within the country after Andhra Pradesh. While Rs 11,573 crores has been earmarked […]

In a historic first, SpiceJet Q400 Bombardier became the first commercial Air craft to land at the Pakyong Airport today. The Spicejet 78 seater Bombardier Q400 aircraft made a successful landing. In terms of Sikkim’s civil & aviation history, it is the first civil fixed-wing flight to have landed in the airport. Initially, flights from […]

Following the swearing-in of the new Tripura cabinet yesterday, the portfolios for the ministers were alloted today. Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, attended office for the first time today taking charge as CM. Deb kept with himself Home ministry, Industry and Commerce, general administration department among other. While, deputy chief minister Jishnu Debbarma was allotted […]

Biplab Kumar Deb, the 48-year-old Tripura BJP president, took oath today as the Chief Minister of Tripura, giving BJP its first chief minister in the state. Biplab Kumar Deb will be leading the BJP-IPFT alliance government that ousted the Manik Sarkar led CPI(M) government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present during the swearing-in ceremony along […]

History has been scripted in Nagaland as Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) leader Neiphiu Rio was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Nagaland today. It was for the first time in the history of Nagaland that the Nagaland Legislative Council was sworn in not inside the Raj Bhavan, but in open air for the […]

In what can be termed as a major security breach, Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice P Vishwanath was stabbed multiple times by a man inside the Lokayukta Office in Bengaluru. Justice Shetty was soon after admitted at the Mallya Hospital, where he is being treated in its ICU. Speaking to the media, State Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy […]

  The Election Result D-Day was by all means a historic one. If on one side we saw the end of the last Left citadel in Tripura and the surge of the Saffron wave, on the other hand, the BJP-NDPP alliance consolidated to form a stable government in Nagaland. Whereas in Meghalaya, the never-seen-before BJP […]

In a massive development in the INX Media case, Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from the Chennai airport on his return from London this morning. The arrest comes in the wake of Karti’s chartered accountant S Bhaskararaman being arrested recently from […]

The BJP is inching towards forming the government in almost all the three Northeastern States where elections were held, exit polls stated. While exit polls predicted a landslide victory for the BJP-IPFT combine in Tripura, the ruling Manik Sarkar-led Left Front government could see its tally come down to around 10 to 20 seats from […]

    BOBBY NAQVI, NATIONAL EDITOR, GULF NEWS, SPEAKS EXCLUSIVELY TO NORTHEAST LIVE FROM DUBAI ON BOLLYWOOD ICON SRIDEVI’S DEATH CASE. The last rites of iconic Bollywood actor Sridevi will be performed in Mumbai today after her mortal remains were brought back from Dubai where she died Saturday night in what authorities of the emirates […]