Agartala: Police dismantled a major counterfeit currency operation linked to a growing narcotics network in Tripura’s Khowai district on Wednesday and arrested a govt school teacher accused of running the racket.Police apprehended 42-year-old Kartik Debnath, a resident of West Sonatala in Khowai, from the Bagan Bazar area of Kalyanpur. During initial checks, officers found fake…
Aizawl: Mizoram chief minister Lalduhoma on Wednesday chaired a review meeting at his office on the 132-Megawatt Tuivai Hydro-electric Power Project, attended by power minister F Rodingliana and officials of the power and electricity department.The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Tuivai Project was already completed and the project was ready for tendering. Efforts were…
Guwahati: The Assam Assembly on Wednesday passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill through a voice vote, formulating a common legal framework that mandates monogamy, gender equality in property inheritance, and, for the first time, registration of live-in relationships without religious bias.CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, who moved the bill for passage, called the legislation —…
Kangkan KalitaGuwahati: The AICC on Tuesday night named senior party leader Wazed Ali Choudhury as its legislature party leader amid a debate whether the Congress leader in the House should be a Hindu or Muslim.BJP has been alleging that Congress was confined to Muslim majority seats in Assam in the recent election. Lone Hindu MLA…
Meghalaya assembly speaker Thomas Sangma at the Canadian parliamentary seminar Shillong: The speaker of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly, Thomas A Sangma, participated in the 16th Canadian Parliamentary Seminar held in Ottawa, Canada, from May 25 to 29 on the theme, ‘Parliaments in the 21st Century: Innovation and Adaptation for Democracy’.The seminar, organised by the Parliament…
Shillong: The Meghalaya govt suspended all new foreign travel proposals and cancelled all planned trips abroad by the chief minister after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s austerity announcement, chief minister Conrad K Sangma said in Shillong on Wednesday, May 27.“I had personally put on hold every single trip outside. I am very clear that we had…
Silchar: Assam Rifles recovered three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during a search operation in Manipur’s Jiribam district amid heightened tensions in the state, officials said on Wednesday.The operation was launched based on specific intelligence inputs, leading to the recovery of three IEDs weighing a total of 4.5kg.Officials said timely detection of the explosives averted possible…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in his address in the state assembly during voting on the uniform civil code (UCC) bill, framed it as a landmark social reform inspired by the ideological foundations of BJP and RSS.Sarma declared that he felt “proud” that “BJP and RSS inspire us for social revolution,” crediting these…
Shillong: The ruling National People’s Party (NPP), which heads the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) govt-2.0, campaigned for the by-election to the Shillong Lok Sabha constituency, though the election schedule is yet to be announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI).The parliamentary seat fell vacant due to the demise of the then sitting MP Ricky…
Kangkan KalitaGuwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the tribal communities of the state are excluded from the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill passed by the state assembly on Wednesday because their existing customary laws already safeguard the tribal women against polygamy and other forms of exploitation. Nevertheless, he emphasized that the UCC…
