North East

A party aboard a ship sailing on the Brahmaputra here on Monday night, allegedly violating lockdown norms, has resulted in the transfer of 10 police personnel, including some senior officers. “...

The Assam health department on Wednesday revoked its July 6 order on 11-day duty and three-day quarantine for doctors and frontline workers on Covid duty, following a letter from the Assam branch of t...

The Assam government has decided to impose a "total lockdown" in Golaghat town from Thursday evening for eight days to curb the spread of the coronavirus dsease, an official said. The restr...

The northeastern states follow a trend of doing things differently and have found unique means to deal with the surge in Covid-19 cases. In Tripura, the government has launched a scheme to distribute...

Assamese filmmaker Rima Das has won the best director award in the Dublin Film Critics Circle category at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival for her film Bulbul Can Sing while Aamis by Bhaska...

The State Public Health Laboratory has punched holes in Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s order to ban molasses (laligur) as it is not listed in the Food Safety Standards Act, 2006. Son...

Protests resumed at Baghjan in Assam, the site of the May 27 gas well blowout, on Tuesday after talks on compensation between the local residents and the Tinsukia district administration failed to mak...

The Opposition Naga People’s Front and the Congress in Nagaland have questioned the role of the ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) in the negotiations to resolve the decades-...

The second is the government’s decision to switch over to antigen tests for health workers engaged for Covid duty. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has already mentioned that this ...

IIT Guwahati has become the first such institute in the country to introduce a course on UN-Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 from the 2020-21 academic year. It intends to “reorient&rdqu...