Shillong: Meghalaya is set to elect its sole Rajya Sabha representative on June 18, with counting scheduled the same evening, chief electoral officer BDR Tiwari said after briefing political parties on the election process on Friday.The upper house parliamentary seat, currently held by Wanweiroy Kharlukhi of the ruling National People’s Party, will fall vacant on…
Guwahati: A 30-year-old worker of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) water wing was found dead inside a filter tank at the Satpukhuri treatment plant, police said on Friday. The plant is located near the Lok Bhawan.The body was recovered from the filter tank, where water is filtered after being treated, before being sent to the…
School education minister Vanlalthlana during the inauguration of the centre Aizawl: School education minister of Mizoram Vanlalthlana on Friday inaugurated the NE’s first-ever “New Age Tech Skills Centre” at the Government Comprehensive Model School, Model Veng locality in Aizawl.The centre has been established under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative of Bharat Forge Ltd, a…
Imphal: A truck driver from West Bengal was killed and a police constable was injured after armed miscreants opened fire on a convoy carrying essential food supplies in Manipur’s Ukhrul district on Friday morning, police said.The convoy, travelling from Imphal along NH-202 to Ukhrul under security escort, came under heavy gunfire from the Patleijang village…
Imphal: The Kuki and Naga communities have demanded the safe release of hostages abducted on May 13 following the killing of three members of Thadou Baptist Association India in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district.The All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) served a four-day ultimatum to the state government to ensure the safe release and handover of six…
Mizoram CM Lalduhoma chairs the meeting on Friday Aizawl: Mizoram CM Lalduhoma chaired a meeting of the governing body of the lone Zoram Medical College & Hospital (ZMC & H) on Friday at the CM Conference Hall.The meeting was attended by Vanlalthlana, minister for higher & technical education, Lalrinpuii, minister for health & family welfare,…
Dibrugarh: Lekhapani police in Tinsukia district on Friday arrested three persons who were allegedly in the process of joining the banned insurgent outfit United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (Ulfa-I), dismantling a fresh recruitment module of the organisation.Ulfa-I chief Paresh Baruah told TOI over the phone, “As long as Ulfa-I is there, people will come to…
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh is gearing up for the biennial Rajya Sabha polls.On Friday, the state’s chief electoral officer Pawan Kumar Sain briefed on the schedule and procedures for the polls to senior govt officials here, an official statement said.The election has been necessitated by the expiry of the term of one member representing Arunachal on…
Dibrugarh: With the monsoon season approaching, the Jorhat district administration convened a flood preparedness meeting on Wednesday at the district commissioner’s office to outline strategies for managing floods.The meeting was presided over by district commissioner Jay Shivani and brought together senior district officials, disaster management authorities, food and civil supplies department representatives, local vendors and…
Union MoS Raksha Khadse speaks at an event in Shillong Shillong: Union minister of state for youth affairs & sports, Raksha Khadse, has called for “collective, mission-mode approach” to combat the growing challenge of substance abuse among youth in the northeast at an event on Thursday.She was speaking at a ‘Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit…
