Silchar: Cachar police seized drugs worth over Rs 2 crore and arrested two persons from Mizoram, officials said on Saturday.Acting on a tip-off about the movement of contraband, a naka check was set up along NH-37 at Kanthagram under Lakhipur police station limits on Friday evening. A SUV was intercepted during the operation and two…
Guwahati: Assam Police on Saturday arrested two persons in Kokrajhar district for allegedly storing country-made weapons.Acting on specific intelligence inputs regarding the concealment of the illegal firearms, a joint team of Assam Police and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) launched a search operation in the suspected location, leading to the seizure of the weapons.The police…
Guwahati: The IMD has forecast heavy rain in parts of Assam over the next two days, including on the day of counting of votes on Monday.Despite the weather warning, polling officials said they are prepared to carry out the counting process.In Guwahati, the EVMs are stored at Maniram Dewan Trade Centre and counting will take…
Silchar: Pre-monsoon showers have thrown life out of gear in Assam’s Barak Valley town, causing waterlogging in several low-lying areas of Silchar and exposing persistent gaps in drainage and civic preparedness.Localities in the New Silchar area, especially lanes near Link Road, remained submerged on Saturday, forcing residents to wade through stagnant water. Commuting has become…
Arija Ahmed during the HSLC examination Dhubri: Arija Ahmed, a specially-abled girl from Kurshakati village in Dhubri district, has proven that determination knows no bounds.She secured first division with a letter in Assam’s High School Leaving Certificate Examination (HSLC), the result of which was announced last month.Arija, daughter of Ayub Ali and Raushanara Begum, was…
Guwahati: Reiterating concerns over the persistent occurrence of road accidents in Assam, chief secretary Ravi Kota has outlined priority measures to improve road safety, focusing on enforcement, infrastructure upgrades and emergency response systems.The directions followed a state-level road safety review meeting in which officials assessed accident rates across all 35 districts for the first quarter…
Shillong: A high-intensity constituency development workshop hosted by the Meghalaya assembly was held at the State Convention Centre in Shillong on Friday to equip legislators with “data-driven tools” to address local challenges and accelerate constituency-level development.Organised by the Meghalaya Institute of Governance in partnership with the Government Innovation Lab, the Harvard Growth Lab, the State…
Aizawl: A fresh influx of over 150 refugees from Myanmar has reached Zokhawthar village in Mizoram’s Champhai district after a devastating airstrike on Khawpuichhip village in Falam township of Chin state killed seven people, including six children, on Friday.Village leaders in Zokhawthar, speaking to TOI over phone, said the aerial bombing took place at around…
Guwahati: Senior AICC leaders overseeing the Assam elections met on Saturday to finalise Congress’s strategy for counting day, with Assam election co-incharge and Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar, saying the party is on alert to “protect its candidates” from alleged BJP “mischief”.After the closed-door meeting at a city hotel, Shivakumar told reporters that BJP, fearing…
Dimapur: Two Naga villages — one belonging to the Angami Naga tribe and the other to the Ao Naga tribe — celebrated 25 years of brotherhood at Ungma village under Mokokchung district on Saturday.To reaffirm their commitment for the future, the two villages formally adopted the ‘Ungma Declaration’, pledging to continuously strengthen and carry forward…
