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Amid growing chorus for the implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Manipur, chief minister N Biren Singh on Friday said the state population commission has been constituted and it will identify the illegal settlers in the state.
After Mara Thyutlia Py (MTP) or Mara youth organisation, Chhuarlung headquarters in Siaha district, it was Young Lai Association (YLA), sub-headquarters of Bualpui 'NG' in Lawngtlai district, which has sealed the Mizoram-Myanmar border in the sector due to the deaths of three persons from Mizoram inside Myanmar.
Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Assam Rifles battalion would be shifted from the heart of Aizawl to its new designated complex at Zokhawsang, about 15 km east of Aizawl.
Days after the Centre announced it would reduce the "disturbed areas” under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), the Assam government extended AFSPA, in eight districts of the state for six more months with effect from April 1. As per the notification, the “disturbed area” status, however, has been withdrawn from Lakhipur sub-division of Cachar district.
The record of EC is such that we never took dictation from anyone nor will take dictation in future, said Chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar.
Costs on the advocates were imposed while hearing a writ petition filed by a non-existing person named Beolin Kharbhih.
Mizoram is estimated to have a potential area of 24,000 hectares available to be developed for fish culture. So far, only around 22.1% of the potential area or 5,527 hectare has been developed for pisciculture.
The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) has been named as one of the world's top universities for the study of 14 subjects, according to the latest edition of the world's most-consulted university ranking.
Kaziranga National Park (KNP) witnessed its first rhino poaching in more than a year ahead of President Droupadi Murmu's visit in the first week of April.
In a daring jailbreak, two militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) NSCN-K escaped from the Khonsa jail in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district.
Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of three Mizoram natives inside the Myanmar territory, a senior state police official said on Saturday. The three persons, including a woman, were residents of south Mizoram's Siaha and Lawngtlai districts.
Union minister of ports, shipping & waterways and Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal, on Saturday attended the Uddipana Award ceremony at Sonowal Kachari Youth and Cultural Festival in Dibrugarh and urged the youth to harness their talent and embark on an entrepreneurial journey in a bid to make India an Atmanirbhar country by 2047.
An 18-year-old girl was hacked to death in broad daylight allegedly by a youth, who happened to be her neighbour, with a sharp weapon at Dalgram village of Kaliganj in Karimganj district on Friday.
The Centre has decided to decrease the jurisdiction of "disturbed areas" declared under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in Nagaland, Assam and Manipur from April.
A local court here has sent the six teachers, who were arrested by the CID in connection with the Class X board exam question paper leak case from Lakhimpur district, to six-day police custody.
The election department in Mizoram has deleted names of 4,318 Bru voters, who have settled permanently in neighbouring Tripura, from the state's voters' list, a top state election department official said on Thursday.
Assam is the first state in the country to provide such terminal benefits to anganwadi workers and helpers, said chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Union home minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Aizawl on April 1 to inaugurate the new Assam Rifles (AR) headquarters at Zokhawsang, about 15 km east of Aizawl.
After Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, the Assam assembly on Tuesday passed a private member's resolution seeking action against BBC for "malicious and dangerous" documentary, "India: The Modi Question", leading to a walkout by the opposition, which wanted the documentary on the Gujarat riots to be screened in the assembly before adopting any resolution.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday launched Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment) in the state that seeks to sensitise and educate the masses on actions for promoting sustainable living and helping people tackle climate change.
A Special Court (Prevention of Corruption Act) in Aizawl district on Monday sentenced Rongura, former superintendent of excise and narcotics, Serchhip district, to five years in prison and fined him Rs 1.8 crore, while former assistant accounts officer of Serchhip treasury, Suakngura, was sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1 lakh.
Mizoram power and electricity department officials informed governor Hari Babu Kambhampati on Monday that five hydroelectric projects with a total capacity to produce almost 800 megawatt energy are in the pipeline.
Seven more members of pro-Khalistan outfit 'Waris Punjab De' (WPD) and the arrested aides of self-styled and fugitive separatist leader and preacher, Amritpal Singh, are likely to be flown to Dibrugarh in upper Assam in the next 24 hours.
Mizoram governor Hari Babu Kambhampati has referred the petition in the issue of office-of-profit case against the minister of state for tourism, Robert Romawia Royte, to the Election Commission of India (ECI), Raj Bhavan sources in Aizawl said on Sunday.
Several shops were gutted as a major fire broke out in Assam's Kokrajhar district in the early hours of Sunday, police said. The fire in the Hauriapet area of Gossaigaon broke out around 4am, they said.
A person was arrested with heroin worth Rs 2.2 crore in Aizawl, an Assam Rifles official said on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, personnel of the Assam Rifles and state Excise and Narcotics Department seized 443 gram of heroin hidden in 35 soap cases on Saturday, she said.
The police on Sunday informed that four members of an outfit headed by Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, who were arrested in Punjab, have been brought to Assam's Dibrugarh.
After two question paper leaks — general science and Assamese — of the Class X state boards, a geography paper has now gone viral on social media.
Two earthquakes of magnitudes 3.6 and 2.8 on the Richter scale hit central Assam on Saturday morning.
Mizoram may be bracing for a fresh influx of refugees from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the wake of the Bangladesh army reportedly committing arson there.
A 29-year-long legal battle that revolved around a conflict between the CBI, which indicted seven Army personnel for allegedly murdering five persons of Assam illegally, and the Army court martial, which held its men not guilty, was closed by Gauhati High Court (HC) last week “without arriving at any conclusion” to “establish the facts” as the victims’ families and the Army have submitted futility of another probe after such a long time.
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Following an appeal from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, the Mizoram government has instructed all the district administrations to curb the use and sale of glue traps used for rodent control, an official of the state animal husbandry and veterinary department said on Thursday.
Witness to Spanish flu and World War II, Nagaland’s oldest native 121-year-old Pupirei Pfukha, passed away peacefully on Wednesday evening. According to her great grand-daughter Arheno, she was not suffering from any illness, though she was debilitated due to age and her vision and hearing abilities were compromised.
The Himanta Biswa Sarma government on Thursday presented a Rs 935.23-crore deficit budget for the 2023-24 financial year in the assembly.
The ongoing operation against child marriage in Assam has resulted in an equal number of arrests of Hindus and Muslims, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in state assembly on Wednesday.
