Manipur-based militants collected over Rs. two lakh from 18 villages on the Mizoram-Manipur border through extortion this year, the Mizoram assembly was told on Monday.
A jawan of India Reserve Battalion (IRB) was killed after a drunken brawl with ITBP personnel at Seppa in Arunachal Pradesh on Diwali day on Saturday, police sources said today.
The controversy follows media reports that Beijing was constructing a $167 million hydropower plant in Zangmu, 140 km southeast of Tibet's capital Lhasa, besides diverting water to its parched northwest and northeast territories, which includes the Gobi desert.
Hindi-Chini: The great game“Being born a scheduled caste is the biggest curse for me.” These were the last words Pappu Singh Darnal, a 46-year old school teacher in Darjeeling, wrote before he hung himself on Thursday morning.
Opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) today demanded the resignation of Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for his alleged failure in containing price rise of essentials items.
Sukhoi fighter jets will start flying in the skies of the northeastern region from next week.
A dress code diktat by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha asking all students to wear traditional dress on three days a week has the Bhutnese government worried about its students in Darjeeling.
The number of drug users in Meghalaya have increased five folds in the past five years, according to a survey.
The anti-terror federal agency, National Investigation Agency, probing terror-related cases involving an Assam militant outfit, Black Widow, has stumbled upon international links as the agency said it had reached a crucial stage in the investigations.
With swine flu creating panic among the people, the authorities in Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram have taken up a major publicity campaign to dispel fear on the fast spreading influenza A (H1N1) virus in India.
Militants in Assam have for long been using illegal migrants and street urchins to outsource terror. Their counterparts in Manipur have done better — pay policemen to do the subversive job for them.
Sobhapati Samom and
Rahul Karmakar report.
Four of the five persons suffering from swine flu were released from the hospital in Meghalaya today after health authorities confirmed that they were cured.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has said he was apprehensive that Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) may target his state.
Surgical masks were sold out in almost all the drug stores in the Mizoram capital and many people were seen wearing them in the streets today as swine flu scare hit the city with detection of two H1N1 cases on Saturday.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has said he was apprehensive that Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) may target his state.