North East

The Assam State Disaster Management Authority launched the "Äapda Mitra" programme in the state on Monday.

Assam forest minister Parimal Suklabaidya has appealed to the people not toharm wild animals that are forced out of their habitat because of floods.

The Assam inland water transport department on Monday cancelled ferry services from Madhyam Khanda Ghat in North Guwahati and Pandu Ghat here because of the rise in the water level of the Brahmaputra.

The Assam government and Tata Trusts set forth on their joint initiative of establishing a comprehensive cancer-care network in the state with the unveiling of the foundation stones of 19 facilities on Monday.

A large number of people paid floral tribute to the martyrs of the June 2001 mass agitation on the occasion of the Great June Uprising Unity Day held at Kekrupat here on Monday.

Manipur University vice-chancellor Adya Prasad Pandey has appealed to its agitating students for negotiations so that normality returns to the university that has been paralysed since a strike that began on June 6.

Manipur High Court has initiated contempt of court proceedings against the All Manipur Football Association for failing to comply with its directives.

Poverty and a lack of better coaching facilities in Manipur had made their dream to study in IITs and NITs a distant dream.

The Government Lumpsum Grant-in-Aid Higher Secondary School Association launched an indefinite strike from Monday, along with NGOs and different political parties and nine government grant-in-aid higher secondary schools in Mizoram, demanding ad hoc status for the schools.

Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu shared the dais with the BJP's national president Amit Shah, Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Assam health and family welfare minister Himanta Biswa Sharma and former chairman of Tata group Ratan Tata here on Monday for the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the cancer care centre and launch of the programme spearheaded by the Assam government in collaboration with Tata Trusts.