Hours after the final delimitation proposal for the Assembly and parliamentary constituencies was published by the Election Commission of India (ECI), a veteran MLA of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), the BJP's ally in the state government, has resigned from his party.
Amid the ethnic violence in Manipur, an apex body of seven militant outfits in Manipur on Saturday gave a call to boycott Independence Day programmes, besides calling for a 17-hour general shutdown on August 15.
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Mizoram Chief Minister and President of the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF), Zoramthanga, said on Saturday that the party's support to the BJP-led NDA is only issue-based.
A BJP woman leader in Assam has allegedly committed suicide after some intimate pictures of her with another senior party politician went viral on social media. The incident took place on Friday night in Guwahati's Bamunimaidam area.
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The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday published the final delimitation order for 19 Parliamentary and 126 Assembly constituencies in Assam. The total number of seats were kept intact in the delimitation exercise as notified by the ECI earlier in its draft proposal.
Thousands of women on Friday participated in sit-in demonstrations in Manipur’s five valley districts in protest against the alleged gang rape of a 37-year-old woman in Churachandpur on May 3 and demanded a CBI probe into the crime.
In a shocking incident, the body of a school teacher was found hanging from a tree in Guwahati's Khanapara area on Friday, police said. The deceased, Pranab Mili's body was found in the early morning hours by locals in the area who informed the police.
Manipur BJP MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh said on Thursday that Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during his speech in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, presented very important and pertinent points regarding the present conflict in the state.
Manipur's Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) leaders, who on Wednesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi to discuss their demands, on Thursday met Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga and apprised him about their meetings.
Another horrific case of rape and torture has come to light in ethnic violence-hit Manipur after the survivor -- now living in a relief camp -- filed a detailed complaint with the police unfolding the crime that took place on May 3.
An 18 ft-long python was rescued by locals from a tea garden in Assam's Nagaon district on Thursday, officials said.nLocals in the Balijuri tea garden saw the huge python and promptly alerted forest officials and environmentalists.
At the meeting that was attended by the BJP chiefs of several northeastern states, Sarma claimed that despite the continuing unrest in Manipur, BJP will win both the Lok Sabha seats in the state.
More than 8,100 children of refugees from Myanmar, Bangladesh and Manipur have been enrolled in Mizoram’s government schools, the state’s Education Minister Lalchhandama Ralte said on Wednesday.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday assured the tribal leaders from Manipur that security will be further tightened in the hill and tribal areas of the northeastern state.
A massive rally was organised by the Naga tribals in Manipur on Wednesday demanding resolution of the decades-old Naga political issue based on the Framework Agreement, signed between the Central government and the NSCN-IM on August 3, 2015.
Sarma told reporters in Guwahati on Wednesday, “The roads have been transformed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tenure. The earlier bad road situation has changed. Now anybody can walk on good roads across the country.”
According to the police, based on a tip-off, a special team conducted an operation in Jamuhndal area and seized at least 660 grams of contrabands on Tuesday.
The Army on Wednesday said that some hostile elements have made desperate, repeated and failed attempts to question the role, intent and integrity of the central security forces, especially the Assam Rifles, working relentlessly in Manipur since the ethnic violence erupted on May 3.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday criticised the Congress, claiming the northeastern region was converted into a war-zone during the previous Congress-led regime.
The chief of banned militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I), Paresh Baruah, received an extraordinary offer from Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday.
A police officer in Imphal said that Assam Rifles jawans, led by their officers, had last week blocked police vehicles on the Kwakta Gothol road while the police were going to undertake operations against militants.
Sarma said: "In October 1962, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed came to Assam and went to Tezpur. However, he left from there very quickly and literally fled away, anticipating a Chinese occupation in Tezpur. He did not have a chat with the local people... rather thought of securing himself.”
A meeting between Home Minister Amit Shah and leaders of Manipur's Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) was scheduled to take place on Tuesday but was not held as the Minister was busy with the Parliament session.
Even as there is no bar for the teachers of colleges to join the student organisation Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the sudden upsurge in the numbers of joiners that include a few college principals in Assam has sparked a row in the state.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has authorised the empanelment of the IPS officers to hold posts in the Centre at the level indicated against their names, according to the official notification.
