Agartala: Tripura CM Manik Saha decided to cut the size of his convoy by half from Thursday, citing solidarity with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fuel conservation initiative.Senior cabinet members have also moved to reduce official travel arrangements. Ratan Lal Nath, minister for agriculture, power and parliamentary affairs, will not use an escort for local travel….
Guwahati: Manipur remained tense on Thursday following the killing of three church leaders in Kangpokpi district and a Chiru Naga civilian in Noney district the previous day, which triggered a wave of abductions and bandhs that paralysed life in the hill districts.Manipur Police said the three church leaders were killed in “unprovoked firing by unidentified…
Guwahati: The four ministers who took oath alongside chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma have been allocated their portfolios.Rameshwar Teli, a former union MoS, will oversee the labour welfare, tea tribes and adivasi welfare, and transformation and development departments. Ajanta Neog, who previously held the finance portfolio, has been given charge of women and child development…
Shillong: Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma on Thursday flagged off a new fleet of police vehicles at the Police Officers’ Mess, Golflink, Shillong, aimed at strengthening mobility, operational preparedness and public service delivery of the Meghalaya Police.The police department has procured 95 vehicles at a cost of about ₹30 crore. Of these, 79 were acquired…
Dibrugarh: Golaghat police on Thursday launched extensive anti-poaching operations across six key areas in the district — Chohola, Moriahula, Dhansirimukh, Bamungaon, Mihimuk and Mahendra Ghat — to dismantle networks involved in illegal wildlife trade, which continues to pose a serious threat to the rich biodiversity of the region.The district, which houses a part of the…
Silchar: A suspected United Kuki Liberation Army (UKLA) militant was killed in an encounter with Assam Police at Bomapunjee in Assam’s Cachar district on Wednesday night, police said.The deceased, Sailong Doungel alias Lulung, is a resident of Manipur who had recently shifted to the Bomapunjee area along the Assam-Manipur border.Cachar SP Sanjib Kumar Saikia said…
Carving opportunities out of ‘waste’ wood, Cachar artist goes global Silchar: Bhanu Kanta Roy has carved out opportunity out of what many consider waste or firewood.The veteran artist of Vidyaratnapur in the Dholai area of Cachar district has transformed dried tree branches, broken timber and discarded parts of Kadam trees into extraordinary works of art…
Dibrugarh: With the monsoon season just weeks away, Sivasagar district administration convened a key meeting at the DC’s office on Thursday as part of its action plan for flood preparedness for the current year.The meeting brought together representatives from several govt departments to review preparedness levels, exchange views on critical flood-related concerns and issue directives…
Silchar: Weeks before the onset of monsoon, the collapse of a major portion of the Ganigram-Katigorah dyke in Cachar district has triggered panic among residents and sparked allegations of large-scale corruption in the embankment project.The embankment, built at an estimated cost of Rs 17.62 crore under the Cachar investigation division of the water resources department,…
Guwahati: CBSE Class 12 results brought cheers for the northeast, with five of the eight states in the Guwahati region — Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim and Mizoram — recording pass percentages above the national average of 85.20%. Mizoram topped the region with 94.94%.Although the national pass percentage dropped by about three percentage points from last…
