GUWAHATI: A Nagaon court on Friday sentenced 20 convicts to life imprisonment in the 2018 lynching of two youths from Guwahati in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district.Nagaon district sessions judge DJ Mahanta had on Monday convicted 20 of the 45 accused under various provisions of the IPC, including murder by members of an unlawful assembly, rioting,…
Aizawl: Altogether 240 members of the Bnei Menashe community from Mizoram reached Ben-Gurion airport at around 12am on Friday (Israel time), the first group to arrive at Israel since the govt decided in Nov to fund the immigration of around 6,000 members of the community.Chawimawii, who arrived in Tel Aviv early this morning, told TOI…
Dibrugarh: The Dibrugarh Municipal Corporation (DMC) has launched a cleaning drive of the Dibrugarh Town Protection (DTP) drain ahead of the monsoon, which is expected to arrive in the first week of June.Mayor Saikat Patra on Friday said the cleaning of the drain is being carried out on a priority basis given the city’s recurring…
Guwahati: A 2.5-yea-old child was killed in a road accident in Guwahati’s Paltanbazar area on Friday, triggering chaos and public outrage at the scene.The deceased toddler has been identified as Rahela Khatun. Police said the incident occurred when a speeding vehicle hit the child.“She was rushed for medical treatment but succumbed to her injuries. The…
Dibrugarh: Waris Punjab De chief and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh, currently lodged at the Dibrugarh Police Station under Punjab Police custody, underwent trial proceedings on Friday through video-conferencing in connection with the recovery of unauthorised electronic devices from the NSA cell of Dibrugarh Central Jail on Feb 17, 2024.The hearing was conducted before judicial…
Silchar: Assam Rifles, in coordination with Cachar police and a field intelligence team, dismantled a narco-arms module in the Banskandi area of the district, officials said on Friday.Acting on specific intelligence inputs, the joint team launched a swift raid, recovering a factory-made pistol with four rounds of ammunition. Narcotics concealed in soap cases, weighing around…
Guwahati: The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Assam govt and a former district superintendent of police in an appeal challenging the Gauhati high court’s refusal to order a CBI probe into allegations of custodial torture of a youth in 2023, who later died by suicide allegedly due to “mental pressure”.Advocate Arif Jwadder said,…
Silchar: A fast-track court in Silchar has sentenced a 24-year-old woman to life imprisonment for murdering her two minor daughters in a case that had shocked residents of Cachar district.Additional sessions judge (fast-track court) Bankim Sharma on Thursday convicted Azmira Begum Laskar and awarded her life term along with a fine of Rs 20,000. In…
Guwahati: Lawyers of Congress leader Pawan Khera on Friday wrote to the Gauhati High Court chief justice seeking his intervention in preventing ‘serious miscarriage of justice’ in Khera’s anticipatory bail plea, which was rejected by a single-judge bench on Friday. They also requested the recall of the rejection and a rehearing of the plea afresh.Khera’s…
Silchar: Dr Atanu Nath, an assistant professor of physics at Tihu College and a native of Lala in Assam’s Hailakandi district, has been named among the recipients of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, widely dubbed the “Oscars of Science”.Nath is part of the international Muon g-2 collaboration involving CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory and…
