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…
Agartala: A Bengali woman from Tripura, who has been living and working in Kolkata for the past five years, was harassed and labelled a ‘Bangladeshi’ while travelling on a bus in the West Bengal capital.The incident triggered strong reactions in Tripura. The All India Bengali Association here condemned the incident and demanded an apology from…
Imphal: Manipur Congress on Monday expressed serious concern over alleged irregularities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, claiming that unauthorised persons may have been involved in parts of the voter verification process.Speaking to the media at the Congress Bhavan in Imphal, PCC member and former minister Kh Loken…
Silchar: The search for a 10-year-old girl who went missing in the Barak river at Kanakpur in Silchar entered its fourth day on Monday, with rescue teams yet to find any trace of the child.The missing girl, identified as Tania Begum, is the daughter of Jabir Hussain. The family, originally from Damchhara in Dima Hasao…
