Category: north-east

President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday greeted the people of Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram on the statehood day of the two northeastern states.

Music is synonymous with the mountainous state of Meghalaya and keeping this in mind, efforts are being made to effectively motivate the voters through music so that they exercise their franchise, leading to a high turnout in the February 27 election to the 60-member state Assembly.

A bike lifter was shot dead during a police encounter in Assam's Charaideo district, officials said on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Santosh Jaiswal and the incident took place on Sunday night in Sonari.

According to a senior police officer, the accused Bandana Kalita confessed that she killed her husband Amarjyoti Dey and mother-in-law Shankari Dey with the help of two of her friends on August 17, 2022.

The Home Minister is likely to meet a few ENPO leaders as well on Tuesday. He will arrive Tuensang -- another key political and administrative hub in Eastern Nagaland -- the next day and then leave for Shillong, sources said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday took a jibe at Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction while reacting to a controversy that erupted after the state government published an ad inviting devotees to the Dakini Hill in Kamrup district to celebrate Mahashivratri.

Meghalaya has become the number one corrupt state in the country under NPP rule, according to Shah, despite that BJP has been a partner of the government led by the NPP for the last five years and still continuing in it.

In all 13 political parties including four having a national status -- the BJP, Congress, NPP and the Trinamool Congress -- are contesting the election with a total of 375 candidates including 36 female nominees in the fray.

Dass further said that many people who have a government job or belong to well-off families have come forward to surrender their ration cards following the state government's appeal.

Despite the Assam version of 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', Congress party will not be able to return to power in the state till 2036, Minister Pijush Hazarika said on Saturday.

Unidentified assailants attacked a senior lawyer with acid in Assam's Kokrajhar district, police said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday at the Gossaigaon area.

World's longest river cruise MV Ganga Vilas, after traversing through Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal as well as Bangladesh, arrived Dhubri in Assam on its 39 day of the voyage.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday criticised the National People's Party (NPP), alleging that the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government headed by the NPP is involved in corruption, and Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma has been doing family politics.

The Assam Rifles arrested four people and recovered six endangered Burmese pythons from their possession after these exotic animals were smuggled in Mizoram from neighbouring Myanmar, officials said on Friday.

The Election Commission has seized drugs, cash, and freebies worth over Rs 147 crore in Tripura, where Assembly elections were held on Thursday, and Nagaland and Meghalaya, which will go to the polls on February 27, officials said.

According to official data, the quake, which occurred at 9.26 a.m, with an epicentre in the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya, was 46 km deep. The tremors were felt in Meghalaya and in some parts of Assam, including Guwahati.

If voted to power, the BJP will form separate task forces to probe corruption cases and curb illegal mining in Meghalaya, besides solving the border disputes with Assam and implementing the recommendations of the seventh Pay Commission for state government employees.

The Rajya Sabha MP also stressed that education, health, employment, and road infrastructure are the basic requirements of people and they have been deprived of these under the current regime.

The Assam government has got the National Medical Commission's (NMC) permission to start MBBS course in the newly-built Kokrajhar Medical College in Kokrajhar district.

Nadda promised that the Eastern Nagaland Development Board would be set up for the holistic development of the region and a special package for the development of Eastern Nagaland would be given.

A fresh political war erupted on Tuesday between two former allies- ruling National People's Party (NPP) and the BJP, in Meghalaya after a piece of paper with the BJP's letterhead claimed that the saffron camp has warned the people against celebrating Valentine's Day.

Congress Media Department Chairman Pawan Khera told reporters that the Conrad Sangma-led NPP government has looted the people of Meghalaya and the state has missed major development in the last five years.

BJP President J.P. Nadda will release election manifestos for poll-bound Nagaland and Meghalaya on his two-day visit to the states starting February 14, the party's media head Anil Baluni said on Monday.

Authorities in Nagaland, as part of their ongoing pre-poll raids against drugs, arms peddling and illegal financial transactions, have seized contraband and cash, valued at around Rs 37 crore, since the announcement of the Assembly polls on January 18, officials said on Monday.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) issue through not vociferously highlighted in the ongoing campaign in three election bound states -- Tripura, Nagaland, Meghalaya -- remains active in the entire northeast region even after over three years of passing the law and the on-off agitations against it.