New Delhi, January 20 (PTI): Senior bureaucrats Rajeev Singh Thakur and Shantanu have been appointed as joint secretaries in the newly-created department of military affairs, as part of major bureaucratic reshuffle effected on Monday by the central…

Members of  Federation of Government College Teachers’ Association (FEGOCTA) addressing a press conference at Manipur Press Club, Imphal on January 19. (NNN Photo)     Newmai News Network Imphal | January 19   Teachers of colleges of Manipur…

Newmai News Network Imphal | January  19   Manipur Health and Family Welfare department is targeting to cover about 3.14 lakh children between the ages of 0-5 years by pulse polio immunization programme which was launched on Sunday.   The…

Newmai News Network Aizawl |  January  19   At least 235 people, comprising of 52 males and 183 females, have been compensated for various crimes since 2012 under “Mizoram victims of crime compensation scheme, 2011."   According to records…

Agartala, January  19 (IANS): The BJP-led Tripura government has submitted, to the Union Home Ministry, a Rs 8,802 crore project for the social, economic, cultural, linguistic and other development of indigenous tribals, who comprise a third of the…

New Delhi, January 19 (IANS): "There can be no proof of religious persecution", said BJP's most recognised and influential leader in the northeast - Himanta Biswa Sarma, sparking off speculation whether he had dehyphenated "religious persecution"…

Agartala/Guwahati, January 19 (IANS): A parliamentary panel is on a three-day visit of the northeastern states to study the functioning of the 10 tribal autonomous district councils (TADC) in Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura.   Under the…

Newmai News Network Shillong | January 18   The East Khasi Hills District Magistrate has promulgated an order under Section 144 CrPC prohibiting assembly of five or more persons within a radius of 500 meters of the temporary Meghalaya Assembly…

Guwahati, January 18 (IANS): Ranjeet Kumar Dass was on Saturday unanimously re-elected president of the ruling BJP in Assam for a three-year term.   All senior Assam BJP leaders including Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Union minister…

Agartala, January 18 (IANS): The Rs 1,550 crore special economic zone (SEZ), to be set up along the Bangladesh border in Tripura, would be a multi-sector SEZ and not just agro-based food processing SEZ, official said here on Saturday.   The…

Newmai News Network Imphal | January 18   Imphal-Jiribam section of NH-37 will have a 24-hour vehicular service once the ongoing constructions of two major bridges along the highway are completed, said Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on…

Ülo Valk, Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu gives his closing remarks on the last day of the Winter Workshop on Liminal Ontologies in Diphu, Assam.   Winter Workshop on Indigeneity & Liminal Ontologies…

Newmai News Network Aizawl | January 17 A day after the signing of an agreement on Bru issue, various political parties and civil society groups in Mizoram lauded the Centre and the governments of Mizorm and Tripura for the "historic" agreement,…

Aizawl, January 17 (PTI): Newly elected BJP Mizoram unit president Vanlalhmuaka on Thursday said people should thank God that the state has been exempted from the purview of the new citizenship law. Vanlalhmuaka also slammed state Congress…

Maligaon, January 17 (MExN): RPF (Railway Protection Force) of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) detected as many as 66 cases of touting activities and apprehended 74 persons involved in illegal sale of Railway tickets during the year 2019. During…