The Congress will fight the 2014 polls under the leadership of party chief Sonia Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh, party general secretary Digvijaya Singh said today.
Assam has maintained revenue surplus fiscal position for six years, but the state should also take steps to phase out subsidies to curb non-plan revenue expenditure, according to a Comptroller and Auditor General report.
A 16-year-old gang-rape victim in Meghalaya, forced to relocate following harassment by locals and reluctance of schools to admit her, has found her new home no less hostile. HT reports.
Amidst poaching comes a piece of feel-good news from the 860 sq km Kaziranga National Park — the rhino count has gone up by 39 to 2,329. HT reports.
A higher demand for its ‘aphrodisiac’ horn and a resultant price rise has made the one-horned rhino more vulnerable than before.
Battling the latest and strongest bout of dissidence in his 12-year reign, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi is likely to meet Congress president on Friday, according to sources in the party. Digambar Patowary reports.
Women failed yet again to penetrate a male bastion called Nagaland assembly but the February polls underscored the rise of women on the political horizon in the Northeast.
The Manipur drug trail has led to the son of a senior Congress MLA. Police in Manipur capital Imphal said they arrested Saikholen Haokip on Monday night on the basis of information provided by an army colonel caught on Sunday ferrying psychotropic substances to Moreh town bordering Myanmar.
Forest guards in north-central Assam's Orang National Park recovered the carcass of an adult Royal Bengal tigress on Tuesday.
Noted educationist Nizam UddinAhmed died at his residence in Guwahati today, family sources said. He was 74.
Bomb disposal squad recovers and defuses a country-made explosive device found in front of the Indian Oil refinery in Noonmati, Assam.
Tension erupted in Assam's Baksa district - a part of the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) - after bodies of four youths were found today, police said.
Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura — perceived as part of the ‘non-mainstream’ Northeast — account for only five Lok Sabha seats. But the February assembly elections in these three northeastern states have underscored their significance in this age of coalitions. HT reports.
Militants have joined hands with poachers in Assam and AK-47 rifles are being used to hunt the rhino. Result: The Kaziranga National Park has lost nine rhinos since January, Manas National Park, one. Digambar Patowary reports.
The police in eastern Nagaland’s Longleng district seized more than Rs.1crore from a Naga People’s Front (NPF) candidate on Saturday after the chopper he was travelling in landed on an Assam Rifles helipad without prior information.
HT reports.