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Kulsi Youth Club Commemorates Half a Century of Boating Tradition On the auspicious occasion of Lakhi Puja, thousands gathered at the Kulsi riverside in South Kamrup’s Kulsi area to witness the traditional Boat Race competition, a tradition upheld since 1973. The Kulsi River often considered the lifeline for the Rabha ethnic group, was alive with … Read more
A two-year-old girl was killed and her mother injured during a firing by forest department personnel to chase a herd of wild elephants that also wounded another person in Assam’s Kamrup Rural district, police said on Friday. Personnel of the department were engaged in driving away a herd of wild elephants creating havoc for the … Read more
Assam: Five Air Traveler Test Covid-19 Positive Five travellers who arrived in Assam from Europe and Saudi Arabia tested positive for Covid-19 during the last 24 hours. According to sources, four persons arrived at Silchar airport on December 6, while one arrived in Guwahati on Tuesday night. As the emergence of Omicron has sounded alarm … Read more
Expressing solidarity with the 14 innocent civilians killed by armed forces at Oting in Mon district of Nagaland, All Arunachal Pradesh Student Union (AAPSU) and North East Student Organization (NESO) jointly organized a sit-in demonstration and mass lighting event at IG park in Itanagar on Thursday. Besides, AAPSU and NESO members, hundreds of students from … Read more
The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) organised sit-in dharna in front of Raj Bhavan in Kohima on Thursday against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Students took part at the dharna with placards that read “Repeal the Draconian Law AFSPA 1985”, “Indian Army foe of North Eastern people”, “We stand in solidarity with our Naga … Read more
Road accidents killed as many as 47,984 people on National Highways, including on expressways, during 2020, the Parliament was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said 53,872 people died due to road accidents on National Highways, including on expressways, in 2019. Gadkari … Read more
Two NLFT (BM), One KYKL Militant Lay Down Arms A militant of banned outfit ‘National Liberation Front of Tripura (BM)’ involved in the ambush of Border Security Force (BSF) personnel surrendered before force’s sector headquarters in Panisagar under North Tripura district on Wednesday. Along with him, two more militants of NLFT (BM) and another active … Read more
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 40 farm unions, on Thursday decided to suspend the over a year-long farmers’ movement against three contentious farm laws and announced that farmers will go back home on December 11 from the protest sites on Delhi’s borders. Farmer leaders said that they will again meet on January … Read more
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed further proceedings on FIRs registered against journalists of a digital news network in connection with reportage of the alleged communal violence in Tripura. A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud issued notice on the plea filed by Theos Connect, which operates the HW News Network, and three of … Read more
Meanwhile, the NSCN (I-M) took strong exception to the “irresponsible statement” made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the Indian Parliament on Oting’s mass killing by the 21st Para Commandos of the Indian Army. NSCN (I-M) said that Shah’s statement comes at a time when the Nagas were in a state of mourning in … Read more