Aizawl: A Mizoram court has convicted two BSF personnel of gang-raping a woman and pouring acid on her face in a bid to blind her and erase evidence linking them to the crime near a border outpost in Mamit district back in 2017.Additional district and sessions judge Sylvie Z Ralte convicted Nilanjan Das and Dinesh…
Agriculture minister Pijush Hazarika holds a review meeting Guwahati: Agriculture minister Pijush Hazarika on Sunday warned seed and fertiliser suppliers of criminal action and license cancellation over delay in supply.The minister, during a review meeting of the agriculture department on Sunday in Guwahati, emphasised that seed and fertiliser distribution must be transparent, ordering that high-quality…
Shillong: IIM Shillong and the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, Telangana, jointly hosted the sixth phase of the ‘Yuva Sangam’ under the Centre’s ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ (EBSB) initiative in Shillong.Held between June 8 to 12, the five-day event brought together 46 students and five faculty coordinators from Telangana, providing them with an experience…
Silchar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested a senior section engineer of the NFR’s Carriage and Wagon (C&W) department in Silchar for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a contractor.According to a CBI statement, the agency registered a case against the railway engineer, Kuntal Chakraborty, on Saturday following a complaint…
Guwahati: All Assam Motor Transport Association (AAMTA) has written to the commissioner of transport, urging a minimum 70% hike in public transport fares, citing the recent petrol and diesel price hikes.The fare was revised in 2019, with state govt approving a 25% fare increase. The association said diesel prices have increased by over 45% since…
Guwahati: Tezpur University and Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health (LGBRIMH), Tezpur, recently signed an MoU to support academic excellence, research cooperation, and capacity building in mental health, education, and related disciplines.The MoU was signed at the LGBRIMH premises. From Tezpur University, registrar (i/c) Prof. Chandan Goswami and from LGBRIMH deputy director Dr….
Guwahati: Housing and urban affairs minister Kaushik Rai inspected drainage systems at several artificial flood-prone localities across the city, and inspected the ongoing Silsako restoration and flood management works and other drainage projects on Sunday.He said one of Guwahati’s most significant anti-waterlogging initiatives, the revival of Silsako Beel, is nearing completion and is expected to…
The pistols recovered from near the rail tracks The pistols recovered from near the rail tracks The pistols recovered from near the rail tracks The pistols recovered from near the rail tracks The pistols recovered from near the rail tracks Dibrugarh: Two pistols were recovered from near the railway track at Banipur, close to the…
Aizawl: District administrations of all 11 districts across Mizoram are nearing completion of biometric enrolment of over 31,200 refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh, state home department officials said on Sunday.Breaking down the numbers, the officials said 29,047 Myanmarese and 1,447 Bangladeshi refugees had been biometrically enrolled.While six districts – Aizawl, Champhai, Lunglei, Mamit, Khawzawl and…
The fire at the daily market caused damage estimated to run into lakhs of rupees Dibrugarh: A fire tore through the daily market in Tinsukia district’s Doomdooma town on Sunday morning, gutting seven shops and causing damage estimated to run into lakhs of rupees, officials said. No casualties were reported in the incident.According to residents,…
