North East

The Assam government extended the 'Disturbed Area' status of the state for another six months from August 28 under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), according to an official state...

Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee will lead a roadshow in Agartala on September 15 against the “hooliganism” of the ruling BJP in Tripura. The show of strengt...

Senior leaders of the 11 pressure groups seeking the suspension of three senior Meghalaya police officers for their alleged role in the August 13 encounter death of a former militant leader deposited ...

A ferry mishap in Assam on Wednesday has not only sparked protests in the island district of Majuli but also put the spotlight back on the “unfulfilled promise” made by Prime Minister Nare...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday ordered filing of a criminal case over capsizing of a boat plying to Majuli, that claimed one life, while two persons are still missing. Sarma ban...

Overnight search and rescue operations established contacts with 84 persons, who were travelling on the ill-fated boat that capsized in the Brahmaputra river in Assam, but two persons are still missin...

CPM offices were vandalised and vehicles set on fire in Tripura on Wednesday in what is being seen as the fallout of a three-way campaign for supremacy in the Northeast state from where the BJP ousted...

  Violent clashes erupted between activists of the ruling BJP and the principal opposition, CPI(M), in different parts of Tripura on Wednesday. Trouble started at Udaipur town in Gomati distric...

He also asked minister Bimal Bora to rush to the site of the accident. Sarma asked Principal Secretary to the chief minister Samir Kumar Sinha to monitor the developments "round-the-clock"....

The Assam Jatiya Parishad and the Tipraha Indigenous People’s Regional Alliance joined hands on Tuesday to unite the other regional parties of the Northeast so that they could work together to e...