Friday, April 26, 2024
AGARTALA — Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha has said that his government has been contemplating reopening cases of political murders reportedly “carried out during the previous Left Front and Congress regimes”. Saha, who also holds the...
15 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — The postal voting for absentee voters in Imphal West district began on Sunday, allowing senior citizens aged 85 years and above (AVSC) and persons with disabilities with at least 40% disability (AVPD) to exercise their voting rights from t...
14 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — Ahead of the 18th Lok Sabha elections, N Praveen Singh, Additional Chief Electoral Officer of the Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency, along with K Bono, the Joint Secretary of the Election Department, visited Ukhrul and convened a me...
14 Apr 2024
DIBRUGARH — Bestowed with lush tea gardens, rich natural resources like oil, gas and coal and a diverse electorate, the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency in Assam will witness a close contest between three candidates – Sarbananda Sonowal, Lurinjyo...
14 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to visit Manipur ahead of the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls. Anticipating his visit, preparation is almost complete at Hafta Kangjeibung ground in the state capital on Saturday. Amit Shah is exp...
13 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — After a lull of several weeks, two persons were killed on Saturday in fresh incidents of violence during a heavy exchange of firing at the tri-junction of Imphal East, Kangpokpi and Ukhrul districts, the police said. An official in Imphal ...
13 Apr 2024
GUWAHATI — Assam Police busted an interstate drug peddling gang and recovered narcotics worth INR 20 crore in Karimganj District, officials said on Saturday. Superintendent of Police in Karimganj, Partha Pratim Das said, “A vehicle was intercepte...
13 Apr 2024
AIZAWL — Indian ambassador-designate to Myanmar, Abhay Thakur, on Friday, held a meeting with Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati at the Raj Bhavan here and discussed India-Myanmar trade-related issues, an official said. A senior Mizoram governm...
13 Apr 2024
AGARTALA — The Election Commission on Friday cautioned BJP’s Tripura East Lok Sabha candidate, Kriti Devi Debbarma, who had called the opposition CPI-M a “party of murderers”. Tripura East Lok Sabha seat’s Returning Officer ...
13 Apr 2024
DIMAPUR — The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on Friday updated that the zone continuous to register a steady growth in freight unloading, with 1306 freight carrying rakes been unloaded in March, which is an increase of about 5.49% over February (...
12 Apr 2024
IMPHAL/ AIZAWL — Despite the Election Commission’s all-out efforts to increase voting turnout in the 18th Lok Sabha polls, several thousand voters, mostly tribals, would miss to cast their vote in Manipur as they took shelter in neighbouring Mizo...
12 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — Disable People’s Rights Organisation Manipur (DPROM) has requested Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manipur to take action on Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) spokesperson P Bankimchandra for using “offensive language” during a...
12 Apr 2024IMPHAL — Female voters outnumber their male counterparts in Inner Manipur Parliamentary Constituency, which will go to polls in the first phase of polling on April 19. Out of 9,91,574 total voters in the constituency which comprises of 32 assembly ...
12 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea moved by a transgender activist seeking directions to quash the FIRs registered against her for fasting until death to protest against ethnic clashes in Manipur. A three-judge bench head...
12 Apr 2024
AIZAWL — Women voters have once again outnumbered men voters in Mizoram who constitute over 51.56 per cent of the total 8,56,364 electorate for the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha constituency, where elections will be held in the first phase of voting on Ap...
12 Apr 2024
AGARTALA — The district authority in Tripura’s Gomati district on Thursday warned to take stringent action against anyone publishing or displaying improper photographs or videos of the idol of Mata Tripura Sundari or its temple founded in 1501 by...
12 Apr 2024
IMPHAL — No major incident of violence has taken place in Manipur since the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls by the Election Commission on March 16, and it is expected that voting in the state’s two parliamentary seats will be smooth and p...
11 Apr 2024
GUWAHATI — Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has postponed his campaigning schedule in Assam, a senior party leader said on Thursday, adding the Wayanad MP will visit the northeastern state on April 20 after the first phase of polling. As per the revised sc...
11 Apr 2024
ATHIABARI — Nambie Jessica Marak, first runner-up of Masterchef India (Season 8, 2023) joined National People’s Party (NPP) on Thursday, during an election meeting in Athiabari in West Khasi Hills. She joined the party in the presence of Megh...
11 Apr 2024
JORHAT (ASSAM) — Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has alleged that people close to BJP, including relatives of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and central ministers, are buying bankrupt tea gardens in the state and then selling them overnight to s...
11 Apr 2024
AGARTALA — Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah would visit Tripura next week to further spearhead the campaign for the coming Lok Sabha elections, party sources said. State BJP spokesman Subrata Chakraborty on Wednesday s...
11 Apr 2024
SHILLONG — A daily-wage labourer was killed in Shillong in an attack by some unknown miscreants, officials said on Thursday. Superintendent of Police in the East Khasi Hills district, Rituraj Ravi told IANS, “The incident happened on Wednesday. T...
11 Apr 2024
AGARTALA — Following the instructions of the Election Commission of India (ECI), a multi-layer security arrangement has been put in place along the 5,437-km long international borders in eight northeastern states to thwart any unlawful activities b...
10 Apr 2024
ITANAGAR — The BJP on Wednesday released its ‘Sankalp Patra’ (manifesto) for the Arunachal Pradesh assembly elections promising 25,000 jobs for youths, new schemes for girls, women, farmers and state’s infrastructure development. The ‘Sanka...
10 Apr 2024
ITANAGAR — BJP president JP Nadda on Wednesday claimed that the Northeast, which was earlier known for bandh culture, insurgency and targeted killings, has made rapid progress in the last ten years of the Modi government. He released the party mani...
10 Apr 2024
