The regional disparity in India’s population pyramid is increasing according to a research note by Soumya Kanti Ghosh, chief economic advisor of the State Bank of India (SBI). read more

Babyrojisana Chanu has a close link to Mary Kom as she trains in her Imphal academy. On Friday, she defeated Assam’s Saraswati Boro 5:0 in the final. read more

The families of the trapped miners inside the flooded Meghalaya mine have said that they want the bodies taken out as per the Supreme Court order even as Navy divers captured pictures of a body inside the flooded mine. The Supreme Court has ordered: “No matter whether they (trapped persons) are all dead, some alive, few dead or all alive, they should have been taken out by now. We pray to God that they all are alive.”

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The northeastern states need to be more dependent on their own resources in future and these states, including Tripura, should attract private capital, said 15th Finance Commission chairman Nanda Kishore Singh on Thursday. read more

The BJP’s foot soldiers say things have turned bad for a party that has seen a stunning rise in the northeast. read more

As high as 225 (about 40%) of the 487 points of sale surveyed around 243 schools by Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) and Consumer Voice as part of the study — ‘Tiny Targets’ — were found flouting the 100-yard guidelines read more

Kamal Kanti Sen Choudhury, a resident of Belonia in Tripura, had allegedly assaulted the victims at the B Barooah Cancer Institute (BBCI) in Guwahati on the night of December 31. read more

The Citizenship Amendment Bill, passed in the Lok Sabha on January 8, provides for according Indian citizenship to the Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis who fled religious persecution in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan after... read more

In the first major drug bust of the year in Manipur, the Assam Rifles seized the contraband from a van headed for Imphal from the border town of Moreh. read more

The 49-year-old leader, who is considered the BJP point person for the northeast where the party has made significant gains in the past three years, said he was ready to welcome the AGP if it wanted to return to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA... read more

Himanta Biswa Sarma , 49, spoke over the Asom Gana Parishad’s (AGP) decision to withdraw support to the Assam government over the contentious Citizenship Bill, which seeks to give citizenship rights to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan,... read more

Popular Assamese singer Zubeen Garg sang ‘Axomor Ananda Sarbananda’ (Assam’s Happiness Sarbananda) which was BJP’s popular campaign song in the run-up to the state polls in 2016 where the party came to power in alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad and... read more

As protests rage in Assam against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, the BJP insists there is no danger to its government. read more

The open overtures from the Congress, including from former chief minister Tarun Gogoi, on at least two occasions, suggest possibilities of potential new political fronts in the future. At present, however, the common ground, leaders of both parties... read more

The Assam Accord is a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) signed between representatives of the Government of India and leaders of the Assam Movement. read more