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Imphal: Manipur police arrested a journalist and a political activist for writing controversial social media posts on the death of a senior BJP leader due to COVID-19, the NDTV reported.Manipur-based journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem and political activist Erendro Leichombam were...

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices on Friday touched record high levels across the country after rates were increased for the fourth time this week, the PTI reported.Petrol price was hiked by 29 paise per litre and diesel by...

Tokyo: The United States is set to deploy two Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton drones at Misawa airbase in Japan's Aomori prefecture for five months, the first drone was put into service earlier in the day, Kyodo new agency reported...

Washington: Thirty-four children in the Gaza Strip and two children in Israel have been killed in clashes between Israelis and Palestinians, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Middle East and North Africa regional Chief of Communications Juliette Touma told...

Guwahati: Assam forest minister Parimal Suklabaidya on Friday visited Bamuni Pahar in Nagaon district, where 18 elephant died a day ago presumably due to lightning, and ordered an inquiry into the incident.A panel, headed by Deputy Conservator of Forest...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday directed officials of the Finance Department to give topmost priority to clear files of the health sector for augmenting the states fight against the pandemic, the PTI reported.After being sworn-in...

Imphal: Internationally acclaimed theatre personality Ratan Thiyam tested for the novel coronavirus. He has been admitted to a hospital here on Wednesday.The admission in-charge of the medical directorate of Manipur government in Imphal West district, N Haraba said the...

Guwahati: Jailed anti-citizenship amendment act activist Akhil Gogoi received permission from a special NIA court to take oath as legislator of Assam Assembly on Tuesday. He is the first Assamese to win an election from behind the bars.Special NIA...

Gaza: The number of those killed as a result of air strikes conducted by Israel's air force on Palestine's Gaza Strip has increased to 43, the Palestinian Health Ministry's spokesman, Ashraf al-Qidra, said on Wednesday.Previous update reported 35 deaths."There...

Gaza/Jerusalem: Hostilities between Israel and Hamas escalated overnight, with at least 35 killed in Gaza and five in Israel in the most intensive aerial exchanges for years.Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Gaza into the early hours...