Category: NORTH EAST

• ASSAM
• MANIPUR
• MEGHALAYA
• MIZORAM
• NAGALAND
• ARUNACHAL PRADESH

Train services continue to remain disrupted in Assam’s Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section after the derailment of a loaded goods wagon though efforts are on in full swing to restore the rail traffic. 

On the occasion of Diwali, sweets were exchanged on Thursday between the troops of Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), all along the border with Bangladesh, officials said.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said a broad consensus has been achieved by India and China to restore the ground situation in certain areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

On the eve of the Diwali celebration, Assam Rifles on Wednesday recovered huge quantities of drugs worth Rs 18 crores in Tripura after the contraband smuggled from Myanmar and ferried to the state via Mizoram and southern Assam, officials said.

A powerful live hand grenade was found at the gates of Ghanapriya Women's College, located less than 100 metres from the Raj Bhavan here on Monday, police said.

A senior Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientist would tag Amur falcons in Manipur’s Tamenglong district with satellite transmitters early next month to analyse the migratory routes of the raptors, forest officials said. 

According to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in Guwahati, moderate rain was very likely to occur at many places over Mizoram and Tripura while light to moderate rain was very likely to occur at a few places over Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Manipur.

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), which operates in the northeastern states and in seven districts of West Bengal and five districts of north Bihar, has achieved 64 per cent electrification of its network, officials said on Tuesday.

To boost surface connectivities and economic growth, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has stressed the need to speed up the 98 National Highway projects in four northeastern states – Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura, officials said on Tuesday. 

Assam Rifles and Manipur Police in their continued operation recovered 12 weapons and a large cache of ammunition and war-like stores in the past week in Manipur, officials said on Monday.

The annual event in Meghalaya - Shillong Cherry Blossom Festival - is set to take place in November this year with Japan as a partner country, an official said on Monday.

Heroin, smuggled from Myanmar, worth over Rs 6.40 crore was seized and three persons were arrested in two separate operations by the police personnel in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, officials said.

After the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021 and the ethnic turmoil in Manipur since May 2023, illegal drug-related activities and smuggling into the country's northeastern region increased, officials said on Friday, stressing the need to step up vigilance and action to curb the drug menace.

After the derailment of six coaches, engine and the power car of Agartala-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express on Thursday at Dibalong in Assam, the normal train services were restored on Friday in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill section, officials said.

Meanwhile, tremors were also felt in western and southern Tripura after another earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale struck neighbouring Bangladesh after Thursday midnight.

A total of six coaches besides the engine and the power car of the Agartala-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express derailed on Thursday at Dibalong in Assam's Dima Hasao district, an official said, adding no casualties, however, were reported.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday announced that the Nabagraha temple in Guwahati will witness a major transformation with the state government planning to spend more than Rs 12 crores in upgrading the existing structures of the temple.

Sources said that Ministers and MLAs belonging to the Meitei, Kuki and Naga communities attended the meeting called by the Intelligence Bureau under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

He said, "The BJP government has been working for the benefit of the people and this government has undertaken unprecedented development works under the leadership of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.”

Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram, who is now on a three-day visit to Nagaland, on Monday said that his primary objective of the visit to the northeastern state was to ensure that government schemes are effectively reaching the people at the grassroots level.

Indian Army, Assam Rifles, Manipur Police and other security forces have been relentlessly carrying out intelligence-based joint operations in both the mountainous and valley regions in Manipur and recovering large cache of arms and ammunition, officials said on Monday.

The four-month-long Southwest Monsoon has withdrawn from the entire northeast region of India on Monday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said.

Drugs worth nearly Rs 4.5 crore have been seized and four drug peddlers were arrested from southern Assam’s Karimganj district on Sunday, officials said.

Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Jual Oram on Sunday held a meeting with Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and discussed various developmental works and the central government’s projects and schemes, now being under implementation in the northeastern state.

Amidst the ethnic troubles, at least four people were killed in Dengue and the number of positive cases due to the vector-borne diseases recorded 1,360 in Manipur so far this year, health officials said on Sunday.