NEA News Service

Shillong: The Congress on Saturday declared its final list of five candidates for the Meghalaya Assembly elections, fielding Chireng Peter R Marak, the brother-in-law of lone National People’s Party (NPP) Lok Sabha member Agatha Sangma from Kharkutta assembly constituency.  The...

Guwahati: Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Gyanendra Pratap Singh will be Assam's next Director General of Police, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday.Singh, currently a special DGP in the state police force, will take over from Bhaskar...

Shillong: The BJP, which is aggressively campaigning in Meghalaya for the upcoming Assembly elections, took potshots at the opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) and described its supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a “pro-Bangladeshi” and "outsider" in...

Imphal: "Democracy is under threat, and there is a semblance of dictatorship under the BJP's rule in Manipur," senior Congress Spokesperson N Bupenda Meitei alleged here on Saturday."During the BJP regime, senior editors, university and college professors, journalists, bloggers,...

Imphal: Chief Minister N. Biren Singh Saturday inaugurated and dedicated a series of projects at Andro and further assured to bring more development in the area.Following a series of inaugurations and dedications of projects including the inauguration of a...

Agartala: The ruling BJP on Saturday declared 48 nominees, including 11 women, for upcoming election to the 60-member Tripura assembly slated to be held on February 16 next. The candidates for remaining 12 seats include two high-profile constituencies - Agartala...

Agartala: Keeping the alliance spirit with CPI-M, an hour after BJP’s candidature Congress on Saturday announced its nominee to 17 seats for the upcoming assembly poll scheduled on February 16 next.There has been a long battle between CPI-M and...

Bhubaneswar: Eminent writer and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Hussain Rabi Gandhi passed away following protracted illness at the SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, on Saturday. He was 74 yeats old.Gandhi was associated with Biju Pattnaik and served...

Yangon: Five people were killed when a passenger bus collided with a probox car on Friday evening in southern Myanmar, according to a traffic policeman.The accident occurred in Ye township of Mon State at around 6:40 p.m. local time...

Jammu:Nearly one dozen labourers have been detained for allegedly capturing pictures of vital installations in Arnia area here in the city outskirts.Confirming the detention, police sources on Saturday said that Army troops last evening detained 11 labourers from bordering...