Shillong: The Meghalaya govt on Tuesday launched the CM-INSPIRE scheme to provide financial assistance to aspirants preparing for the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examinations, amid concerns over the state’s poor performance in recent civil services results.CM Conrad K Sangma said the initiative was aimed at reversing a decline in indigenous representation in the Indian…
Thoubal: One person sustained bullet injuries after police on Tuesday fired multiple rounds to disperse protesters opposing the inauguration of a block development office (BDO) at Wangjing by Manipur CM Yumnam Khemchand Singh, amid protests over the recent Tronglaobi killings in which two children were killed in a bomb attack.Demonstrators blocked National Highway-102 at multiple…
GUWAHATI: Seven years and 10 months after two friends were lynched in Assam’s hilly district of Karbi Anglong on suspicion of being child lifters in a case that triggered nationwide spark, a district court in Assam on Monday convicted 20 people for the crime.Sound engineer Nilotpal Das (29) and his businessman friend Abhijeet Nath (31)…
Guwahati: All India Congress Committee (AICC) media and publicity chairperson Pawan Khera on Monday moved the Gauhati high court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with a forgery and criminal conspiracy case registered against him.The case was filed on April 6 midnight, based on an FIR lodged by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife, Riniki Bhuyan…
Guwahati: Assam chief secretary Ravi Kota on Monday held a comprehensive review after torrential rain triggered artificial floods in Guwahati. He asked the Guwahati Municipal Corporation, Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority and the Water Resources Department to stay on 24×7 operational alert to tackle waterlogging in vulnerable areas of the city.Considering past incidents, including last year’s…
Silchar: A huge cache of narcotics, arms and cash was recovered from a forest village in Assam’s Cachar district following a joint operation by Cachar Police and Assam Rifles, officials said.Acting on specific inputs, the joint team carried out a search operation at a house in Jurkhal forest village on Sunday. The village, under Kachudaram…
Dibrugarh: A male leopard that had been terrorising residents and killing livestock at the Daimukhia Tea Estate in Tinsukia district’s Doomdooma was captured in an iron cage on Monday morning, bringing relief to the local community after days of fear and anxiety.The forest department had placed the iron cage at a strategic location within the…
Silchar: Police seized 3,600 bottles of banned cough syrup worth about ₹36 lakh from a courier company’s container truck at Churaibari in Sribhumi district on Sunday night, officials said.Acting on specific intelligence inputs, a team from Churaibari police station intercepted a six-wheeled container truck at the Assam-Tripura border check gate after it arrived from Delhi…
Guwahati: Yashraj Singh of Guwahati topped the northeast in JEE Main 2026 with a 99.98 NTA Score, narrowly missing a perfect 100, after final results were declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday. He also emerged as Assam’s state topper.Tripura topper Adriraj Saha scored 99.86, followed by Arunachal Pradesh’s Aiman Tanish with 99.73,…
Guwahati: Parents of sound engineer Nilotpal Das and his businessman friend Abhijeet Nath, who were lynched in 2018 in Karbi Anglong by a mob suspecting them as child lifters, expressed their disappointment over the outcome of the legal battle. They said more than half of the accused have been acquitted by the trial court on…
