North East

Naskara, a remote village in Assam, stole the limelight on Independence Day last year, after two students and four teachers hoisted the Tricolour in waist-deep floodwaters on the primary school field.

After Tenzing Bodosa's tea farm in Udalguri district of Assam became the first certified elephant-friendly tea farm in the world, a garden from Darjeeling has become the second in the world to get the tag.

Assam's additional director-general of police (law and order) Mukesh Agrawal said the chargesheet in the Karbi Anglong lynching incident will be filed within the mandatory period.

A 22-year-old woman succumbed to burn injuries on Tuesday after she was allegedly set on fire by her boyfriend and three others in Assam's Nagaon district.

The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) on Tuesday complained to Union home minister Rajnath Singh and Registrar-General of India Sailesh that some Assam government officials were not helping those excluded from the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) get link documents to submit claims for their inclusion.

Guwahati railway station has been ranked 21 among the A1 category railway stations in the country in terms of cleanliness, a survey has revealed.

An action plan with timeline for a special recruitment drive for appointment to 4,419 vacant posts for persons with disabilities was forwarded to the Pratibandhi Suraksha Santha, Assam (PSSA) on Monday, after a discussion between representatives of three organisations of the differently-abled and the social welfare department on August 2.

Members of the Assam Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee, led by Silchar MP Sushmita Dev, staged a protest at Dispur on Tuesday demanding the resignation of Union minister of state for railways Rajen Gohain who had been accused of sexual harassment by a married woman in Nagaon district.

The Nagaland government has made it mandatory for all the employees of Nagaland secretariat to attend the Independence Day celebrations at Secretariat Plaza on Wednesday.

Union minister of state for agriculture and farmers' welfare Krishna Raj on Tuesday said Mizoram has great potential to become an organic state.