Silchar: A suspected child marriage case has surfaced in Sribhumi district after a 14-year-old pregnant girl was taken to a hospital for delivery, leading to the arrest of her 21-year-old husband under the Pocso Act, police said on Monday.The matter came to light when her husband brought the girl to a civil hospital in Hailakandi…
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma arrives on a tractor at Nepalikhuti to assess the damage caused by floods CM Himanta Biswa Sarma arrives on a tractor at Nepalikhuti to assess the damage caused by floods CM Himanta Biswa Sarma arrives on a tractor at Nepalikhuti to assess the damage caused by floods CM Himanta Biswa Sarma…
Dibrugarh: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday disbursed the first interim tranche of financial ex gratia, amounting to Rs 15,000 each, to nearly 75,000 flood-affected families across the four worst-hit districts of Charaideo, Sivasagar, Jorhat and Golaghat, from the chief minister’s secretariat in Dibrugarh.The disbursement marks the beginning of the compensation package announced earlier by…
Waterlogging at Panjabari area in Guwahati Guwahati: Moderate rain submerged NH-27 at Jorabat on Monday, stranding hundreds and crippling a crucial regional road link.Severe waterlogging on the Assam-Meghalaya border paralysed traffic for over an hour, disrupting connectivity between parts of the northeast, central and upper Assam and the rest of the country. The flooding lasted…
Guwahati: A heartrending appeal by a young woman from Hiloni Nepali Khuti in Assam’s Sivasagar district to chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during his visit on Monday has once again brought the spotlight on the environmental cost of indiscriminate stone quarrying.The woman alleged that continuous stone and sand extraction has severely damaged the Dikhow river…
Children and celebrities are contributing to flood relief efforts in Assam GUWAHATI: Children are breaking their piggy banks, companies are loosening their CSR purse strings and celebrities like singer-businesswoman Ananya Birla, actor Randeep Hooda and Physics Wallah founder Alakh Pandey are getting their hands dirty working in the field as a steady stream of humanitarian…
The texts, estimated to be 250-300 years old, include sacred Vaishnavite works Restoration of manuscripts at the Satra The texts, estimated to be 250-300 years old, include sacred Vaishnavite works The texts, estimated to be 250-300 years old, include sacred Vaishnavite works Restoration of manuscripts at the Satra The texts, estimated to be 250-300 years…
Dimapur: Dimapur: NSCN (IM) chairperson Q Tuccu accused the Centre of inciting its “surrogate Kuki mercenary forces” to fight the Nagas, as the group observed the 10th commemoration of the signing of the Framework Agreement on Monday.Tuccu alleged that colonial-based policies of some Indian leaders are still at play and that there are attempts to…
Dimapur: The Kohima district administration on Monday ordered the temporary closure of a section of National Highway-2 (Kohima-Mao section) passing through the Phesama sinking area for 10 hours from 8am to 6pm on Tuesday to facilitate restoration work and ensure public safety.Kohima district magistrate B Henok Buchem issued the order following a communication from the…
Agartala: Tripura agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister Ratan Lal Nath on Monday inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for several development projects in Unakoti district, with a total investment exceeding Rs 15 crore.He opened the Betchhara Rural Market in the Kumarghat Agricultural Sub-Division. This project, which cost Rs 2.20 crore, aims to bolster local trade….
