Guwahati: A 33-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly robbing a residence at Doordarshan colony in city’s Borbari area.Dispur police station officers have identified the accused as Tridip Kumar Das (33), a resident of Misamari town in Sonitpur district. “Das was staying in the city with his fiancée, who is a teacher at a…
Dhubri: Dhubri district has launched the ‘Diarrhoea Prevention Campaign 2026’ to cover 17,7,279 children below five years, with the programme running till July 31.The drive comes amid rising diarrhoeal cases during the rainy season, prompting the health department to intensify preventive measures, particularly in sandbar, remote and border villages.The awareness programme is being launched and…
Imphal: Manipur CM Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Friday said people from the Kuki-Zo community are now frequently travelling to Imphal to board flights, reflecting a gradual easing of tensions after over three years of conflict between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities.The CM said earlier people from the two communities were hesitant to venture into each…
Devotees gather at the Kamakhya temple ahead of the Ambubachi Mahayog Guwahati: The atmosphere and the scale of crowd at the Kamakhya temple during Ambubachi Mahayog have changed significantly since around 2000, driven by improved transport, better law and order, and wider dissemination of information through social media.The biggest religious congregation of the northeast –…
Aizawl: The Mizoram govt on Friday lifted the month-long austerity measures on fuel consumption with the General Administration Department (GAD) withdrawing the office memorandum (OM) issued on May 19, which had designated every Wednesday as “No Official Vehicle Day”.The GAD ‘s OM stated that the restriction issued a month before has been lifted in view…
Shillong: Union finance and corporate affairs minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday laid foundation stones for projects worth over Rs 1,200 crore across sectors in Meghalaya and inaugurated NE’s largest organic spice processing unit in Ri-Bhoi district.The initiatives include the Meghalaya Ecotourism Infrastructure Development Project with five sub-projects worth Rs 91.60 crore; the Meghalaya Logistics and…
Guwahati: Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has found that underprivileged and illiterate youths from rural, remote areas of Assam are targeted to be trafficked to Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh using profitable jobs to lure them.This came to light after the rescue of 115 persons from the age group 15- 35, which includes 39 minors and 48…
Shillong: The Meghalaya State Zoo has achieved a conservation milestone with the birth of a stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides), marking the first successful breeding of the species at the zoo.The breeding pair was brought from Aizawl Zoological Park in Mizoram through an animal exchange programme.“The successful birth highlights the species’ adaptation to its new environment…
Dimapur: University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM) has announced to provide a comprehensive package of exclusive fellowships and scholarships for 50 deserving students of Nagaland as part of its student-centric outreach and educational empowerment in the state.Making the announcement at a press conference here on Friday, USTM chancellor Mahbubul Hoque said 50 students from…
Dimapur: Dimapur: Nagaland’s teacher-student ratio stands at 1:12, said adviser to school education Kekhrielhoulie Yhome on Friday, calling it “very healthy”.Yhome said Nagaland has around 1,900 govt schools, 880 private schools and a dozen central schools with a total of about 34,000 teachers.He made this statement at an orientation on Nagaland School Quality Assessment and…
