North East

Mizoram recorded its first Covid-19 death on Wednesday afternoon, 219 days after the state recorded its first positive case. So far it had been the only state in the country without any fatality from ...

The anxiousness, locals said, stem from the fact that contact was lost with two of the birds three-four days after they left for South Africa and with the third one — Barak — on May 29 thi...

Opposition parties  in Assam will be holding joint protests against the “misrule” of the BJP-led government, a development which takes them a step closer to the proposed mahajot (gran...

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday suggested creation of a distinct colour identity for Guwahati so that it could leave a lasting impression on visitors and tourists who come calling ...

Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs), which are in talks with the Centre apart from the NSCN (Isak-Muivah) to resolve the Naga political problem, will be holding a meeting with apex tribal bodies at...

The Mizoram government has decided to shut down all schools for two weeks from Monday following detection of several Covid-19 cases among a section of Class X and XII students. This development might ...

Oil India Limited flew in equipment weighing about 60 tonnes from Canada on Wednesday night to kill the Baghjan gas well that suffered a blowout on May 27. On September 13, experts from Alert had suc...

An Assam Rifles jawan was killed in an encounter with militants in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday morning. An army statement issued in the evening said the soldier was killed in an ...

The country’s first multi-modal logistics park coming up at Jogighopa in lower Assam’s Bongaigaon district will provide employment to 20 lakh people, Union minister of road transport and h...

According to a senior forest department official, the annual Kaziranga revenue is around Rs 6 crore, raised through entry fees, safari fees and tariffs for accommodation in forest guesthouses. But the...