Guwahati: Three people died in Goalpara district on Friday after reportedly entering a septic tank for cleaning work, police said. One of the deceased was an Indian Army personnel posted in Kashmir who had returned home for the holidays about a week earlier. The incident has raised concern among locals over the lack of safety…
Silchar: Two school students drowned in a waterbody in Hailakandi district on Thursday afternoon after entering the water to retrieve a football during a game, police said.The incident occurred at Chiparsangan under Panchgram Police Station limits, where a group of youths were playing football on a ground adjoining a waterbody. According to sources, the ball…
Dibrugarh: Assam Police have arrested two more men from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly raising funds for the banned Ulfa‑I, indicating the outfit’s pan‑India reach in extortion and funding operations.The arrested men, identified as Noor Mohammad of Saharanpur and Mohammad Subhan of Kanpur, were traced to a rented accommodation in Unnao’s Budhwari area, where they had…
Conrad Sangma with Himanta Biswa Sarma in Dispur on Friday Shillong: Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma met his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma in Dispur on Friday to discuss recent incidents of tensions along the Meghalaya-Assam interstate boundary.“Met with the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam, Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma ji, to discuss the concerns faced…
Dimapur: In a major relief to three families, Nagaland governor Nand Kishore Yadav’s intervention ensured prompt issuance of Unique Disability ID (UDID) cards to three persons with disabilities.Taking note of a news report highlighting delays in the issuance of UDID cards to three persons with disabilities in Peren district, Yadav intervened and directed the departments…
Jeep safari at Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve Guwahati: Kaziranga National Park has registered its best-ever year for tourism, with footfall rising by over 15% over 2024-25 to touch 4.68 lakh visitors in 2025-26, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday.The Unesco World Heritage Site is globally renowned for its “big five” — the…
Shillong: Meghalaya is set to elect its sole Rajya Sabha representative on June 18, with counting scheduled the same evening, chief electoral officer BDR Tiwari said after briefing political parties on the election process on Friday.The upper house parliamentary seat, currently held by Wanweiroy Kharlukhi of the ruling National People’s Party, will fall vacant on…
Guwahati: A 30-year-old worker of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) water wing was found dead inside a filter tank at the Satpukhuri treatment plant, police said on Friday. The plant is located near the Lok Bhawan.The body was recovered from the filter tank, where water is filtered after being treated, before being sent to the…
School education minister Vanlalthlana during the inauguration of the centre Aizawl: School education minister of Mizoram Vanlalthlana on Friday inaugurated the NE’s first-ever “New Age Tech Skills Centre” at the Government Comprehensive Model School, Model Veng locality in Aizawl.The centre has been established under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative of Bharat Forge Ltd, a…
Imphal: A truck driver from West Bengal was killed and a police constable was injured after armed miscreants opened fire on a convoy carrying essential food supplies in Manipur’s Ukhrul district on Friday morning, police said.The convoy, travelling from Imphal along NH-202 to Ukhrul under security escort, came under heavy gunfire from the Patleijang village…
