Officials during a rescue operation Dibrugarh: In an operation coinciding with the World Day Against Child Labour, a district-level task force rescued two child labourers from a car wash centre on AT Road in Sivasagar town on Friday.The two children, aged 12 and 13, had been employed at the car wash centre and deprived of…
Agartala: Tripura has recorded a remarkable rise in women’s participation in the workforce over the past three years, CM Manik Saha has said.He attributed this progress to targeted initiatives promoting women’s empowerment, skill development, entrepreneurship, and financial inclusion across the state. The female labour force participation rate has grown from 37.5% in 2022 to 45.9%…
Dibrugarh: State disaster management minister Keshab Mahanta on Friday chaired a review meeting on flood preparedness at the Lakhimpur district commissioner’s office, taking stock of the situation ahead of monsoon.Lakhimpur is one of the most flood-prone districts in the state, often featuring among the worst-affected districts.Addressing the meeting, Mahanta, who is also Lakhimpur’s guardian minister,…
Dibrugarh: In a major haul, Lakhimpur police have busted an inter-state mobile theft gang and recovered 146 stolen mobile phones, 524 mobile batteries, and a large number of mobile phone parts from a rented house at Chapori Gaon under North Lakhimpur Police Station in Lakhimpur district.During a raid on Thursday, police arrested six persons in…
Imphal: Two Kuki Baptist Church leaders were killed and two others injured after unidentified armed men attacked a Kuki-inhabited village in Manipur’s Kamjong district in the early hours of Thursday. The killing comes a day after bodies of six Naga civilians were recovered, triggering immediate tension in the roiled state.Police said the attack took place…
Guwahati: A surge in illegal and unauthorised collection of wild orchids from Upper Assam forests is driving an online smuggling trade through social media platforms, prompting the Orchid Society of Assam to issue urgent warnings against the violation of the Wildlife Protection Act.Traders often use courier services to send protected species — such as Dendrobium…
Guwahati: The apex student body of the northeast, the North East Students’ Organisation (Neso), on Thursday questioned the Centre’s sincerity in resolving the Manipur crisis. Following the killing of six Naga civilians, Neso said that despite the prolonged deployment of central security personnel across the state, the situation continued to deteriorate.In a statement issued by…
Guwahati: Manipur CM Yumnam Khemchand Singh, addressing the 11th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog in New Delhi on Thursday chaired by PM Narendra Modi, flagged the mounting challenges posed by the conflict in Myanmar.He underscored the urgent need for stronger border management, advanced surveillance systems, and coordinated joint action against drug trafficking, arms smuggling…
Shillong: A Bangladeshi man, caught in a tense stand-off between the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), returned to his homeland on Thursday morning after spending the night in no-man’s land along the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya.The individual has been identified as Sati Rajbanshi, son of Baghbatta of Chalna village under…
Shillong: The Meghalaya govt through the transport department on Thursday launched a One-Time Settlement (OTS) scheme aimed at providing substantial relief to commercial vehicle owners by waiving outstanding taxes and penalties.Sniawbhalang Dhar, deputy chief minister in-charge, transport, who launched the scheme at the main secretariat in Shillong, said that the OTS was approved by the…
