A cultural presentation in Lok Bhavan, Shillong, celebrating Sikkim, Goa and Telangana statehood days Shillong: A special programme was organized at Lok Bhavan, Shillong, on Tuesday to commemorate the foundation day and statehood day of Sikkim, Goa and Telangana. The event, held at the Durbar Hall, was marked with the participation of govt officials, college…
Silchar: A mobile Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre (ICTC) van was launched in Cachar district on Tuesday to take HIV testing and counselling services directly to vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations.Cachar district commissioner Ayush Garg flagged off the mobile ICTC van at a formal programme attended by joint director of health services Dr Sumana Naiding, senior…
Mizoram governor Gen. Vijay Kumar Singh speaks during the launch of the ‘Khet Bachao Abhiyan’ at Lok Bhavan in Aizawl Aizawl: Mizoram governor Gen Vijay Kumar Singh, PVSM, AVSM, YSM (Retd), on Monday launched the ‘Khet Bachao Abhiyan’ at Lok Bhavan in Aizawl, aimed at tackling soil degradation through balanced, soil test-based fertiliser use and…
Dhubri: A Bangladeshi national identified as Muqtar Hussain (32), a resident of Dinajpur in Bangladesh, has been apprehended by the 89 Battalion of the Border Security Force (BSF) in Assam’s Dhubri district.A source said Hussain was detained by the BSF near the Bishkhowas Border Out Post in the Golokganj sector during routine border patrolling on…
The accused and the seized drugs Silchar: Cachar police have seized heroin valued at over Rs 1.5 crore in the international market and arrested two suspected peddlers.Acting on a tip-off, a team set up a checkpoint on NH-6 (Badarpur-Shillong) in the Kalaincherra area, intercepted a vehicle and searched it.Cachar ASP (crime) Rajat Kumar Pal said…
Guwahati: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday met Union health minister JP Nadda and Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan in New Delhi to discuss Assam’s development trajectory, with a focus on expanding healthcare infrastructure and boosting economic growth.He also said Union minister for power and housing and urban affairs Manohar Lal Khattar assured full support from his…
Imphal: The planned release of 14 Kuki detainees reportedly held under the custody of the Naga Village Guard (Northern Command) was cancelled on Monday.The move was called off after Naga groups intensified pressure on the United Naga Council (UNC) as six Naga civilians, allegedly abducted by Kuki groups on May 13, remained untraceable.The development comes…
Dimapur: More than 6,000 govt officials will be engaged in the conduct of Census 2027 in Nagaland.The census will be carried out in two phases.The first phase of house-listing operations will provide citizens an opportunity to enumerate their households through online self-enumeration facility from June 16 to June 30.This will be followed by verification of…
Aizawl: Police officials of Mizoram’s Saitual district have seized 6.683kg of morphine estimated to be worth over Rs 6.68 crore at the outskirts of Keifang town on Sunday and arrested three persons from Assam, police said on Monday.The officials stopped a truck bearing Assam registration at the outskirts of Keifang driven by Raju Giri (32),…
Dimapur: The Nagaland govt on Monday appointed six members of the Nagaland legislative assembly as the chief minister’s advisers with immediate effect and assigned them to different departments.The cabinet secretariat (cabinet cell), in a notification, said Kuzholuzo Nienu has been allocated science & technology department, Puthai Longon taxes department, Picto Shohe new & renewable energy…
