A Border Security Force constable injured during cross-border firing from Pakistan in Jammu’s R.S Pura sector a day ago died on Sunday (May 11, 2025), the BSF said. Deepak Chimngakham, hailing from Manipur, was among the eight BSF personnel injured in shelling from Pakistan in the early hours of May 10. India-Pakistan ceasefire LIVE: Follow […]
A network of women’s groups in Nagaland’s Phek district is doing what many transporters struggle to do – deliver value-added farm products to markets. Marketing was a challenge when Phek Flavours, a rural food processing brand, was launched by 26 women from Phek village on International Women’s Day on March 8. Half the battle was […]
GUWAHATI The Ministry of Railways has sanctioned a final location survey for a new railway line in Sikkim. The Guwahati-headquartered Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) will conduct the ₹2.25 crore survey for the project, which is envisaged to connect Melli, on the State’s boundary with West Bengal, to Dentam on the India-Nepal border, a spokesperson of […]
GUWAHATI A youth organisation has opposed an ecotourism development project in Meghalaya’s Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary, citing a potential threat to its delicate ecosystem. In a letter submitted to the State’s Additional Director General of Forests (Wildlife) and the Director of Wildlife Preservation on May 6, the Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) called for scrapping the planned […]
“Security forces have arrested nine militants belonging to several proscribed outfits from three districts of Manipur,” police said on Friday (May 9, 2025). “Four active members of the banned Kangleipak Communist Party were apprehended from Lamding Khumanthem Leikai in Thoubal district on Thursday (May 8, 2025),” they said. “During another operation, three cadres of the […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Northeast in-charge Sambit Patra met former Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, BJP legislators in the valley and hills and Kuki-Zo and Zomi civil society organisations in the northeastern State on Monday (May 5, 2025). Mr. Patra’s visit comes days after 21 Manipur Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA) wrote to Prime […]
The Supreme Court on Monday (May 5, 2025) perused a sealed cover report submitted by a central forensic science laboratory on the veracity of audio recordings allegedly “establishing complicity” between former Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and the ethnic violence in the northeastern State which led to the loss of many lives. A Bench […]
GUWAHATI: Manipur’s United Naga Council (UNC) has sought the reinstatement of the Free Movement Regime in the Naga areas on either side of the India-Myanmar border, and the rollback of seven districts created in 2016. In a memorandum to Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on May 2, the UNC said the decision of the Ministry […]
GUWAHATI Five organisations representing Manipur’s Meitei and Thadou communities have sought an Assam-like exercise to filter out “illegal immigrants” through an updated National Register of Citizens (NRC). The organisations have also demanded the deletion of ‘Any Kuki Tribes (AKT)’ from the Scheduled Tribe list in Manipur and the termination of the Suspension of Operations (SoO) […]
Tripura government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute Of Management–Shillong (IIM–Shillong) to provide advanced training to Panchayat officials of the State. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha during the National Panchayat Day celebrations here on Saturday. Mr. Saha acknowledged the dedicated efforts […]
