North East

Aizawl: In three separate operations, the Assam Rifles and the state police seized 1,387 gm of heroin worth Rs 9.71 crore in Mizoram’s Champhai district and arrested three drug peddlers, officials said on Friday. Assam Rifles sources…

Agartala: With the arrest of three more Bangladeshi nationals, including a woman, from Tripura on Thursday, 44 citizens of the neighbouring country have been detained in the state in the past three weeks, the police said. A police…

Aizawl: The death toll in Mizoram's Aizawl district in a stone quarry collapse and landslides increased to 29 after two more bodies were recovered from different places on Wednesday while seven people were still missing, officials said.…

Agartala: Several northeastern states, including Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and Assam (southern part), remained cut off from the rest of the country by rail as railway tracks were waterlogged and damaged after landslides triggered by…

In Mizoram, 12 people were killed and some others reported missing after a stone quarry collapsed. The incident occurred at around 6 am in an area between Melthum and Hlimen on the outskirts of the state capital Aizawl.

Agartala: Days after a three-day-old baby girl in Tripura's Dhalai district was rescued hours after a poor tribal woman reportedly sold the infant, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Monday said more social awareness is needed to make…

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Saturday said that the state is projected to attract substantial private investment worth Rs 8,000 crore. "The possible investment in Meghalaya is an outcome of the new industrial…

The party broke silence on the matter after allegations levelled by Congress.

Sources confirmed that the exercise is scheduled to be held at Umroi, Meghalaya, from May 13-26.

The Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in the BJP-ruled state were held on April 19. The Assembly election results will be declared on June 2.

Two persons, including a Manipur resident, have been arrested for possessing the heroin worth Rs 4.18 core.

The villagers are standing outside the polling booth but not entering it to cast their votes as they are protesting against government apathy, an election official said.

The road between Hunli and Anini, the Dibang Valley district headquarters, was damaged due to the landslide on Wednesday night.

After passing through forested areas, the team of election officials would reach Raha after two-and-a-half days.

Thousands of people from Myanmar have taken refuge in various north-eastern states, especially in Mizoram, after fleeing their country following a military coup in February 2021.

The BJP promised to connect over 500 remote villages using drones to deliver life-saving drugs, essential medical supplies and diagnostic samples under the “Medicine from the Sky Initiative”.

Manipur govt initially declared Easter Sunday, March 31, as a working day, but retracted following Christian community protests. The order caused stir; Christian groups condemned it as violation of religious rights. Govt modified order,…

The ruling party has also dropped the chief minister's son Aditya Golay from Soreng-Chakung seat with Tamang himself deciding to contest from there.

The BJP renominated its sitting MPs – Union minister Kiren Rijiju in the Arunachal West seat and Tapir Gao in the Arunachal East seat.

The Lok Sabha elections and assembly polls will simultaneously be held in the northeastern state later this year.