KOHIMA: Nagaland BJP has stepped up action against TheNewsJoint.com, after lesser known news portal broke out a story alleging Ram Madhav's stay at hotel in Dimapur with two girls.
Issuing a statement hours after the damaging story went viral in social media state party president said the story was totally false which aimed at tarnishing the image and integrity of the BJP heavyweight who has been handling the party's affairs in the north eastern region.
The state president further threatened to initiate action against the news portal under the IT Act.
GUWAHATI:Veteran actor Biju Phukan is dead. He was 70. Phukan, the doyen of Assamese film world suddenly died of cardiac arrestin the afternoon. According to information, Phukan, who was not keeping well for the last couple of days suddenly fell seriously ill and his family members rushed him to the Apollo Hospital in Guwahati and died minutes after he was admitted in ICU. He is survived by his wife Rajashree, daughter Sanghamita and son Angshuman. Many film personalities and his fans are thronging his residence in the city and the hospital premises as soon as the news of his tragic death spread like wild fire. The Assam government is organizing his cremation with full state honour on...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme court has reserved its judgment on the validity or acceptability of panchayat documents in the NRC works after it heard both sides on Wednesday. A division bench of the country's apex court comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice RF Nariman completed hearing of the case and reserved the ruling. The bench is hearing the petition on the time for publication of the much-awaited NRC draft along with border fencing issue on November 29 and 30. The home ministry moved a petition before the top court recently seeking permission to extend the date for publication of NRC draft till July 31, 2018 instead of December 31, 2018 triggering huge protest in the state.
TINSUKIA: The Tinsukia police have averted a huge explosion in the state as they seized some explosive materials from a passenger bus in Jagun on Wednesday. Acting on a tip off, a police team in Jagun conducted a checking on the bus which was coming from Arunachal Pradesh where a huge cache of RDX was found inside a bag. The police then questioned the driver, assistants of the bus along with the passengers. But later the passengers were allowed to go and detained the driver and his assistants for further interrogation. "Investigation is going on. Right now we are not in a position to divulge the findings in detail," said a senior police officer in Jagun.
The government is planning an organic revolution for the country, and the ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSS&LUP) has come to its aid by identifying areas holding high potential for the same. After completing scientific research that started in 2011, the bureau along with ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, and Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has prepared a geo-spatial digital map showing organic carbon stock in the soils of all states. Apart from Sikkim, which became India's first fully organic state last year, almost the entire North-Eastern India, including Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Mizoram and...
GUWAHATI:All party legislators are hunkering down in Guwahati on Wednesday to break the logjam over NRC after the Centre sought the Supreme Court's permission to extend the date to publish thr draft. Assam assembly Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami is presiding over the crucial meeting of the legislators to discuss the ongoing controversy where the various organizations and opposition parties have called it a calculated conspiracy to include the names of the Hindu Bangladeshi immigrants in the NRC draft. The home ministry recently moved a petition before the country's apex court seeking an extension of the date to publish the NRC draft till July 31 next year triggering fresh controversy.
TANGLA:Yet another wild elephant died a hard death three days after it sustained injury inside a dense jungle along the Indo-Bhutan border in Udalguri district on Tuesday. A firewood collector discovered the full grown animal three days back and passed the information to the forest department. But of no avail. Three days after an intense battle with life, the elephant died and the villagers spotted the carcass in the morning on the Bhorla river bordering Bhutan sending huge shockwave among the animal lovers who blamed it all on the forest authority for failing to provide adequate treatment to the animal which was battling with death for three months.
GUWAHATI: A special court in Guwahati on Tuesday remanded 14 ACS and APS officers to judicial custody after the end of their 14 days police custody in connection with the APSC scam. The Dibrugarh police probing the scam produced these officers before the special court in the morning and sought no extension of their demand. Then the court reminded them to the judicial custody for 14 days. All of them were arrested during the initial stage of the massive crackdown. Other officers now would be produced before the court at the end of the police custody one by one. So far the special operation unit set up to probe the scam has arrested 22 ACS,APS and allied service officers. Two others have...
GUWAHATI:The difference between AGP and BJP widens further as the regional party on Tuesday threatened to pull out if the BJP-led coalition government on the question of the controversial citizenship amendment bill. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, party leader and former chief minister said they would snap the alliance with the saffron party if the Citizenship Amendment Bill is given a passage in Parliament. Mahanta said,"we are stick to the Assam Accord. Those who came to the state after the cut off date must go irrespective of Hindu or Muslim. Bangladeshis are Bangladeshis. There is no question of any consideration." "Only the BJP government at the Centre wants the Hindu...
GOLAGHAT: Tension starts escalating along the Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat district where the neighbouring north eastern state opened a new sub division in some areas under the territory of Assam. The area in question is the Dhansiri sub division where the people from Nagaland open the Kokoi dub division in full view of the security forces. Local residents' told Assam Times that the new Nagaland subdivision has covered at least ten villages which belong Sarupothar in Golaghat district of Assam. It took place amid growing protest of the move to include the Naga nominated areas in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur areas in the proposed Nagalim in the light of the Naga peace...
GUWAHATI:President Ramnath Kovind who is on a three days visit to the north eastern region visited the Kamakhya temple and offered puja to the goddess. Accompanied by his wife, the President arrived in the ancient shrine atop the Nilachal at 10 in the morning and sought blessings from the goddess Kamakhya. This was followed by his participation in the Kumari puja inside the temple premises. He spent around 45 minutes in the premises and then left for Imphal to open the North East Development Summit.
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