Manipur Congress vice-president Hareshwar Goshwami on Monday (January 27, 2025) filed disqualification petitions against four MLAs of the National People’s Party (NPP). The petitions were filed at the Speaker’s Tribunal of the 60-member Manipur Assembly. “A disqualification each was filed against the four NPP legislators for extending support to the BJP-led government in Manipur despite […]
Fourteen months after a devastating glacier lake outburst flood in Sikkim washed away the Teesta-3 dam — the State’s biggest hydropower project — and killing at least 100, an expert committee of the Environment Ministry has recommended that the dam be reconstructed. Instead of the older structure that was part rock and part concrete, the […]
Tripura police have busted an interstate criminal gang in a raid conducted in Dharmanagar in north Tripura. Police said the arrested youths are residents of Samastipur in Bihar. The raid, which took place on Saturday (January 25, 2025) at a hotel in Dharmanagar, resulted in the arrest of Neeraj Kumar and Inder Kumar. The police […]
GUWAHATI: The Manipur Government on Sunday (January 26, 2025) said it had established a dedicated Integrated Anti-Extortion Cell under the Home Department to deal with a “significant” law-and-order threat in the State. The cell comprises representatives from the State Police, Central Armed Police Forces, and the paramilitary Assam Rifles or Army. A statement issued by […]
Guwahati People across eight northeastern States defied a boycott call by some extremist groups, including the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent), to celebrate the country’s 76th Republic Day on Sunday (January 26, 2025). An aberration in the festival-like atmosphere was a “bomb blast” the ULFA(I) claimed to have detonated at a truck parking lot […]
Four militants were arrested in separate operations in Manipur’s Imphal West and Churachandpur districts, police said on Sunday (January 26, 2025). Two active members of the proscribed PREPAK (Progressive) were arrested from Langol Type II in Imphal West district on Saturday. They were identified as Sairem Rishikumar Singh (24) and Longjam Nganthoiba Meitei alias Lamngakpa […]
“Security forces recovered a cache of arms and ammunition during a search operation in Manipur’s Imphal East district,” police said on Saturday (January 25, 2025.) “The operation was conducted in Awang Potshangbam hills in Heingang area on Friday (January 24, 2025)“, they said. “The recovered items include a rifle, pistol, carbine, mortars and hand grenades,” […]
Some athletes in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills region don’t just race. They try to outpace each other while holding a rounded stone that can weigh up to 138 kg. The rah moo khrah , one of the oldest indigenous games of the Jaintia community, is more of a test of strength than speed. It entails not […]
A wildfire, threatening to singe several villages, is raging in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh. District officials said the fire broke out in the Twang Chu (river) belt below the Sakgyur village in the Lungla subdivision at around 10 a.m. on Friday. “The fire spread quickly. It was contained to some extent through the […]
GUWAHATI Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said China’s refusal to enter into binding international water treaties, and selective sharing of hydrological data have raised concerns in the northeastern region. Speaking at the inaugural function of a seminar titled ‘Environment and Security’ organised at the State Assembly in Itanagar on Friday (January 24, 2025), he […]
