In a spine chilling incident, a differently-abled minor was raped and set ablaze by three culprits shaming the entire human race. Inhumanity reached its peak after the miscreants raped the minor who was a fifth standard student and subsequently set her ablaze. Narrating her horrific ordeal the victim breathed her last at the Gauhati Medical […]

BJP national president Amit Shah arrives in Guwahati today and is scheduled to address a massive rally at the Assam Veterinary Science College playground at Khanapara. Shah will also be holding a meeting with all the ministers and party MLAs at the Administrative Staff College at 3pm. The BJP president will also preside over the […]

Army Special Forces and Assam Rifles commandos busted a major NSCN-IM base in Sonking village of Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district from where the rebels were carrying out massive extortion and terror campaigns in the area. The operations on Thursday portrays a clear message of the government’s intolerance against such criminal activities by the NSCN-IM. The […]

With the rise of man-animal conflict in Assam, another incident came into light, after a full grown leopard was spotted yesterday at Sonari in Upper Assam’s Charaideo district. The leopard was captured today by the forest department officials. It had been creating terror for quite some time in the area and had also injured a tea […]

3 illegal Rohingya immigrants were arrested by a joint team of Manipur Police and sleuths of CID-Special Branch at Moreh in Manipur. The arrested were identified as Narul Hakim, Mohammad Kalimullah and Sabir Ahmad. During interrogation by the police the arrested revealed that they infiltrated into India through Bangladesh and had been staying in Moreh […]

A massive fire broke out at Jagiroad’s Korotipam market at around 1 AM on Thursday night. Properties worth 1 crore rupees were damaged in the fire. Altogether 10 shops were gutted in the fire, which is suspected to have occurred due to a short-circuit in one of the shops.  

In what can be termed as a big boost to the industrial sector in the Northeast, the Union cabinet has given its nod to the much ambitious North-East Industrial Development Scheme 2017 or NEIDS, something that was believed by most people to have replaced the earlier North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy of 2007. […]

A one year old Himalayan black bear was successfully relocated to the Miao mini Zoo in Arunachal Pradesh. The bear was rescued by Yangwok Hodong, a resident of Lazu in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh near the Indo-Myanmar International border two months ago. The Himalayan black bear is a sub-species of the Asian black bear […]

Intensifying its crackdown on the Coal Syndicate in Assam, the State Police’s CID carried out a raid at Bharat Hotel in Jogighopa of Bongaigaon district late yesterday night. 5 persons were arrested during the raid. The arrested have been identified as Mugeshwar Ali, Asan Akhtar Khan, Akibur Rehman, Farukh Ahmed and Bhaskar Kalita. The CID […]

In a major blow to the security forces’ fight against insurgency in Meghalaya, the Supreme Court has ordered immediate release of GNLA Chairman Champion Sangma, who has been languishing in the Shillong Prison for nearly six years. A bench of Justice AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan set aside the order passed by Additional Judicial Magistrate […]