New Delhi, The government on Wednesday approved tripling the capacity of Numaligarh Refinery in Assam and setting up of oil and product pipelines at a cost of Rs 22,594 crore, so as to meet the demands for petroleum products in the Northeast. “The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved[Read More…]
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Mizoram Elections 2018 Live Updates: 42 VVPATs, 25 ballot units replaced
42 VVPATs, 25 ballot units replaced in Mizoram Forty-two VVPATs, 25 ballot units and 19 control units were replaced, following malfunctions at various polling stations across Mizoram, Chief Electoral Officer Ashish Kundra said. 49% voter turnout until 1 pm: EC The Election Commission said that the polling percentage in Mizoram[Read More…]
Delhi Police to recruit more constables from northeast
Agartala: The Delhi Police will recruit 585 more constables from the northeastern states to serve in the national capital, authorities said here on Thursday. Senior police officers of the northeastern states in association with the Delhi Police were in the process of selecting the 585, a senior Tripura Police official[Read More…]
ISL: NorthEast beat Chennaiyin in seven-goal thriller
Chennai: NorthEast United FC upstaged reigning Indian Super League (ISL) champions Chennaiyin FC in a seven-goal spectacle at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Thursday. A hat-trick from star striker Bartholomew Ogbeche (29th, 37th, 39th minutes), the second-fastest in the ISL, had pulled the visitors level in the first-half after[Read More…]
All you need to know about the first Chief Justice of India from Northeast
Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Tuesday recommended the Supreme Court ‘s judge Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the new Chief Justice of the country. Chief Justice Dipak Misra is retiring on October 2. The 46th Chief Judge of the country will be sworn in on October 3. Justice Gogoi hails from Assam will be the first[Read More…]
Man shot by two bike-borne assailants in Delhi’s Seelampur
New Delhi: A 28-year-old man, riding on his two-wheeler with his family, was injured after two unidentified men on a bike opened fire at him, police said. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Northeast, Atul Kumar Thakur said that Ashfaq was coming, along with his wife and kid, after meeting his in-laws[Read More…]
‘Good monsoon for central region, low in east, northeast and south’
New Delhi: With high probability of normal monsoon at 97 percent predicted pan India for 2018, private weather forecaster Skymet on Tuesday forecast central India to receive highest rainfall at 108 percent between June and September. A figure between 96 to 104 percent is considered normal monsoon. Below 90 per[Read More…]
Northeast Assembly Polls – Final outlook
Three north eastern states – Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura are gearing up for assembly elections at the end of February this year. BJP is seeing the polls as a chance to expand its base in these states. Tripura has Left parties Government headed by Manik Sarkar. Naga People’s Front (NPF)[Read More…]
Centre has 15 new rail projects for Northeast: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday the Centre is committed to putting all the state capitals of the northeast on the rail map and is executing 15 new projects in the region. “We are committed to bring all the state capitals of the northeast region on the rail map.[Read More…]
Demand for separate time zone for Northeast a ‘good recommendation’: Ananth Kumar
Demand for separate time zone for North-eastern region of India is being raised by several politicians including Congress leader, Shashi Tharoor for years. Now, the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, chemicals and fertilizer, Ananth Kumar too has realized the need and said that the demand should be taken with ‘utmost[Read More…]
My love affair with Momo in the age of bans
The call for a ban on momo by a BJP MLC in Jammu and Kashmir a few days ago took me quite by surprise. As a lover of the white, crescent-shaped piece of instant gratification, I couldn’t for the life of me understand what did it ever do to the[Read More…]
The man who destroyed the Congress in its last safe bastion
As most of India were hooked to their TV screens watching the results of the five-state assembly elections on the afternoon of 11th March, 2017; Himanta Biswa Sarma landed quietly at Imphal airport with a small team of trusted protégés. There was a palpable tension in Imphal city as the[Read More…]
Rain floods Arunachal Pradesh
Ground water in Northeast records severe iron contamination
According to the Central Groundwater Board, the concentration of iron contamination was found to be the largest in Northeast. Iron contamination in the Northeast has even crossed the permissible limit of 0.3 milligramme/litre. Water samples were collected through its permanent network of 678 groundwater monitoring stations in the Northeast, which[Read More…]
Dhola-Sadiya bridge to be ‘mother of all bridges’
Watch: Northeast girl asks stereotypical questions to Mainland India
India is an inherently racist country. Every one of us has faced some form of discrimination when traveling to a part of the country we don’t call native. But, racial attacks against people from the Northeast have been on the rise in the last few years. According to reports, 86%[Read More…]
‘Cow is mummy in UP, but yummy in Northeast’
The BJP Doesn’t Care About Racism
After the Facebook post of a Manipuri girl accusing an immigration officer of alleged racial slur went viral on social media earlier this week, there has been much speculation about racism yet again. In our discourse, such discussions come to the fore only in the aftermath of crimes, be it[Read More…]