NEA News Service

Shillong: A father and his three children, including a four-year-old daughter, died in a house fire at Mawlam village in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district in the wee hours of Sunday, a village chief said.Etan Tynsong (42), the father...

Imphal: Officers and staff of Raj Bhavan bid farewell to the Governor designate of Nagaland and the outgoing Governor of Manipur, La. Ganesan Sunday. In the sending-off ceremony held at the Raj Bhavan in Imphal, La. Ganesan met all the...

Shillong: The main suspect in the pre-poll violence in Phulbari assembly constituency in Meghalaya has been placed under preventive detention till March 3, Chief Electoral Officer FR Kharkongor said on Sunday.He said 47 persons have been arrested so far...

Imphal: Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Sunday launched a water treatment plant being constructed at Chingkheiching, Imphal East district, by releasing its water.The launch of the 45 MLD plant will pave the way for providing water to some...

Hamirpur (HP): Twenty-four bags of Rice being supplied through fair-price shops were found abandoned in the Paplah forest of the district.Along with sacks of rice, bags of cheap ration containing the photo of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee...

New Delhi: The sub-genre of screwball comedies emerged in the 30s in Hollywood to mock conventional love stories and to infuse laughter, irony and fun into romance.In India, such comedies are few and far between but we have picked...

Faizabad, Afghanistan: Heavy rainfall that triggered avalanches and flash flood has inflicted property damages and rendered scores of people homeless in northern Afghanistan, a provincial official said Sunday.Mawlawi Mohammad Akram Akbari, provincial government director for Natural Disaster Management and...

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday announced the largest allocation ever of 250 million U.S. dollars from the United Nations global emergency fund to help the most vulnerable people in some of the most forgotten crises and...

Agartala: Tension triggered in Ramakrishna Vivekananda Ashram of Madhuban Rani Khamar of Amtali in Agartala following the suicide of an 11-year-old inmate in a toilet on Friday night.The Ashram authority is accused of torture on the inmates, especially the...

Bhubaneswar: A team of STF along with the Commissionerate of Police Bhubaneswar have apprehended two interstate accused drug peddlers from Bharatpur police station area of Bhubaneswar and seized more than 185 kg, of ganja, two cars and other incriminating...