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…
Demonstrators burn effigies of CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and the food and civil supplies department Demonstrators burn effigies of CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and the food and civil supplies department Demonstrators burn effigies of CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and the food and civil supplies department Demonstrators burn effigies of CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and the…
Dimapur: The Govt of India has recognised 19 notified tribal local dialects of Nagaland in the recruitment process of Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) in the postal department.Nagaland’s lone Lok Sabha MP S Supongmeren Jamir, who initiated and pursued the recruitment policy reform on recruitment of GDS in Nagaland, called the Centre’s decision ‘historic’.In a statement…
Silchar: One person died while a youth sustained critical injuries in two separate accidents reported from Cachar district on Eid ul-Zuha on Thursday. An unidentified man was found lying in a bloodied condition beside a railway track at Chandranathpur on Thursday morning. Local residents who spotted him said the injured man was crying for help.He…
Silchar: The Barak Valley Hotel and Restaurant Association has demanded action against illegal restaurants, pubs and highway dhabas allegedly operating across Cachar district without mandatory licences and safety clearances.Addressing a press conference at a hotel in Silchar, members of the association alleged that several establishments were operating without valid trade licences, bar licences, food safety…
The HC said with such disclosure and undertaking by the state and the NHAI, it was no longer necessary to continue with this PIL Guwahati: Assam govt told Gauhati high court that no trees in the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary would be felled before an impact study is conducted for the execution of the proposed Guwahati…
Guwahati: ‘Bhot jolokia’, also known as king chilli or Naga chilli and found in northeast India, has shown reduction in cancer tumours in a scientific study at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), under the supervision of researcher from Assam, Prof. Nirala Ramchiary at the School of Life Sciences of the university.‘Bhot jolokia’ (Capsicum chinense), among the…
Shillong: Almost 90 per cent of the fencing along the India-Bangladesh border that Meghalaya shares with the neighbouring country has been completed, chief minister Conrad K Sangma said.He said approximately 400 km of the total stretch of around 443 km of the international border was fenced.“Only around 40-45 km of fencing is pending. So, 90…
