North East

Already 169 complaints of crimes against women have been received on the 181 women's helpline in Assam since it was launched on March 29.

Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday warned traders against hoarding and claimed that the Goods and Service Tax (GST) was effective in simplifying trade systems and battling black money. He urged traders to uphold honesty and integrity in business and said his government was committed to delivering a society free from corruption, addiction and crimes on women.

An attempt to develop Pushpavant palace, which served as the Raj Bhavan till three days back, into a museum and research centre dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore was on Saturday criticised by the royal family and indigenous civil society.

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Heavy showers accompanied by strong winds have destroyed more than 300 houses in over 25 villages of south Assam's Karimganj district in the past three days.

The Assam Pradesh Committee of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha on Saturday demanded that the cut-off date for inclusion in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) be fixed as August 15, 1947 instead of March 24, 1971 as pegged in the Assam Accord.

The present-day civil servants need to introspect whether they are still the "steel frame" that "iron man of India" Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel used to refer to, Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh said on the 12th Civil Service Day held here on Saturday.

A youth and his girlfriend were arrested on Saturday for allegedly trying to burn alive the girl's ex-boyfriend here on Friday.

The special judge, narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, Manipur, on Saturday denied bail to retired deputy superintendent of police Abdul Latif in an alleged drug smuggling case and sent him to five-day police custody.

More than 50 farmers attended Manipur's first state-level ginger festival-cum-business summit that concluded at Parbung, about 80km from here, on Saturday.