Assam : 8 lakh affected, 6 dead; trains cancelled as rivers above danger mark
GUWAHATI : Floods have devastated the state of Assam once again. At least 21 districts in the state have been flooded affecting at least 8 lakh people. As of now the leading cause of concern is that the River Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark as are other rivers in the state. Six people have been killed in the floods. The worst hit in the More...
Centre Extends Deadline To Update Assam Citizens’ List
NEW DELHI : The centre has extended the deadline to complete the ongoing exercise for updating the National Register of Citizens or NRC in Assam by one more month to July 30. The process had been extended in December More...
my case should be eye-openerex-Armyman who was declared a ‘foreigner’ gets Bail
GUWAHATI : Mohammad Sanaullah, the retired Indian Army soldier who had been declared an illegal immigrant and detained in Assam, today said he was disappointed by his treatment despite having served the country More...
NPP MLA, His Son Among 11 Killed In Arunachal Pradesh
ITANAGAR : Lawmaker and his son were among 11 people killed by NSCN (IM) militants in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district today. Two others were critically injured in the attack.Arunachal Pradesh: Tirong Aboh More...
PRC Row : Actor Satish Kaushik’s Theatres Torched in Itanagar Violence
ITANAGAR : Amid widespread violence for a third day, the BJP-led Arunachal Pradesh government on Sunday scrapped its decision of granting permanent resident certificates (PRC) to six non-Arunachal Pradesh Scheduled More...
Mizoram’s Five-Time CM Lal Thanhawla loses fortress
AIZAWL: Lal Thanhawla, the incumbent chief minister who was seeking to win his overall sixth and third straight term this year, lost his bastion of Champhai South to MNF’s T J Lalnuntluanga. The Congress was More...
Assam BJP MP’s daughter, arrested in Job scam
GUWAHATI : Nineteen Assam government officers, including the daughter of BJP MP R.P. Sharma, were arrested on July 18 in Guwahati as their handwriting did not match with that in their answer sheets in the Assam More...
Violence Spreads Despite Curfew in Shillong
SHILLONG : The army was asked to be on standby and curfew continued in parts of Meghalaya’s capital Shillong for the third day on Saturday after night-long violence during which a mob burnt a shop, a house More...
Meghalaya: Congress’s Miani D Shira Wins
SHILLONG : Miani D Shira, the daughter of former chief minister Mukul Sangma, won the Ampati assembly seat in Meghalaya today – a victory that gave the Congress 21 seats, making it the single largest party More...
BJP invites Manik Sarkar for Biplab Deb’s swearing-in
AGARTALA : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday invited outgoing CM Manik Sarkar for the swearing-in-ceremony of Chief Minister-elect Biplab Deb. BJP leader Ram Madhav and Dev personally met and invited More...