Newmai News Network Shillong | November 5  The Meghalaya Legislative Assembly on Thursday approved a government resolution for taking over the administration of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) by the Governor with effect from October 19, for a period of six months or till the constitution of the new council through election.  Tabling the resolution on the first day of the five-day Autumn session on Thursday, Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui said, &q

Newmai News Network Shillong | November 5  The Meghalaya Right to Public Services Bill, 2020 was tabled by Chief Minister, Conrad K Sangma during the autumn session of the state Assembly, which got underway, on Thursday.  According to the Bill, government servants are liable to pay penalty and compensation of Rs 5,000 up to Rs 20,000 if they fail to provide time bound services to the citizens. "The government intends to enact a law to provide for time bound del

Newmai News Network Shillong | November 5  The Meghalaya Assembly on Thursday introduced the Meghalaya Minerals Cess (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to augment revenue resources of the state. Tabling the Bill on the first day of the autumn session, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said the Meghalaya Minerals Cess Act, 1988 was enacted to provide levy and collection of cess on some minerals for development of primary education and development and improvement of mining areas. “

AGARTALA, NOVEMBER 5 (IANS): Israel would collaborate and work together in the agricultural sector in a bigger way with the northeastern states, Israeli Ambassador to India, Ron Malka, said here on Thursday. Malka said that for the first time the Israeli counsellor was recently nominated in Guwahati to facilitate adapting Israeli technology and collaboration in the northeastern states as the country is doing this in the other parts of India and across the world. "People of t

SILCHAR/Aizawl, November 5 (IANS): The security personnel have seized a huge cache of drugs valued at Rs 16.50 crore in southern Assam and adjoining Mizoram and arrested three persons, officials said on Thursday. An official of Karimganj district police said that the police personnel based on secret information intercepted a vehicle and recovered 1.130 kg brown sugar, worth of Rs 10 crore, from the car on Wednesday night. "The drugs were contained in 32 packets and concealed

Aizawl/Silchar, November 4 (IANS): The Assam government is mulling to hand over the case of death of 48-year-old man from the state in Mizoram to the NIA while the seven-day-long imbroglio along the inter-state borders continued on Tuesday despite visits by top officials. Assam Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya said that the state government would institute an inquiry into the killing of Intyaz Ali (48) and is deliberating if the case should be handed over to

Newmai News Network Imphal | November 4 With only a day left to end the campaigning for the November 7 by-polls in four Assembly constituencies in Manipur, the tempo of political campaigns have gone up.  The campaigning for the by-election is scheduled to end 5:00 pm on Thursday. The four assembly constituencies where by-polls are to be conducted on November 7 are Wangjing-Tentha and Lilong in Thoubal district, Wangoi in Imphal West and Saitu in Kangpokpi district. Wh

Agartala/Shillong/Guwahati, November 4 (IANS): Israeli Ambassador to India, Ron Malka, who is now visiting the northeastern region of the country, is keen to extend his countrys technologies to boost the agriculture and horticulture sectors as well as the information technology (IT) segment of the northeastern states, officials said on Wednesday. After visiting Assam and Meghalaya, the Israeli Ambassador, accompanied by his wife Lea Malka and a delegation, arrived in Agartala on Wed

GUWAHATI/AGARTALA, NOVEMBER 4 (IANS): The Chief Ministers of several northeastern states on Wednesday condemned the arrest of Republic TV Editor in Chief Arnab Goswami in Mumbai, terming the action as "a black-day for Indian democracy" and an attack on "free speech and democracy". The Maharashtra Police's Raigad unit on Wednesday morning raided the home of Goswami in an abetment to suicide case. Senior police officer Sachin Vaze said that Goswami was arrested

AGARTALA/SHILLONG/GUWAHTI, NOVEMBER 4 (IANS): Israeli Ambassador to India, Ron Malka, who is now visiting the northeastern region of the country, is keen to extend his countrys technologies to boost the agriculture and horticulture sectors as well as the information technology (IT) segment of the northeastern states, officials said on Wednesday. After visiting Assam and Meghalaya, the Israeli Ambassador, accompanied by his wife Lea Malka and a delegation, arrived in Agartala on Wedn

AIZAWL/SILCHAR, November 4 (IANS): The Assam government is mulling to hand over the case of death of 48-year-old man from the state in Mizoram to the NIA while the seven-day-long imbroglio along the inter-state borders continued on Tuesday despite visits by top officials. Assam Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya said that the state government would institute an inquiry into the killing of Intyaz Ali (48) and is deliberating if the case should be handed over to the N

GUWAHATI, NOVEMBER 4 (IANS): With commercial operations from the re-developed Rupsi airport expected to begin from January, Assam would get its seventh airport and the northeast its 14th, boosting air connectivity to the region, officials said on Tuesday. An Airport Authority of India (AAI) official said that the Rupsi airport is ready to commence operations under Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) - UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik). The airport in Kokrajhar district in wester

Newmai News Network Shillong | November 3  In view of the upcoming five-day autumn session of the 10th Meghalaya Legislative Assembly, East Khasi Hills district magistrate, Isawanda Laloo, has promulgated order under section 144 CrPC prohibiting assembly of five or more persons within a radius of 500 meters of the temporary Assembly chamber at Rilbong in Shillong, and with a radius of 100 meters of the Meghalaya Secretariat (main and additional building). The district magis

Newmai News Network Imphal | November 3 The Democratic Students' Alliance Manipur (DESAM), Apunba Ireipakki Maheiroi Sinpanglup (AIMS) and All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) on Tuesday demanded the punishment of culprits in the Manipur Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination (MCSCCE) 2016 "fiasco". In a joint press statement, the three student bodies said the MCSCCE 2016 was quashed by the High Court of Manipur “for various lapses a

Newmai News Network Aizawl | November 3 The Mizoram government has extended the ongoing lockdown in the state till November 9. The current lockdown was supposed to end on Tuesday. However it was extended, as the cases of COVID-19 continue to rise. It may be noted that the Mizoram government had imposed a one week lockdown to check the spread of COVID-19 since October 27. The State is also observing ‘COVID-19 No Tolerance Fortnight’ across the state. Meanwhile,

Guwahati, November 3 (IANS): Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday laid the foundation stone of the Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Vegetables Protected Cultivation, intended to boost agricultural activities with the help of the latest Israeli technologies. The Rs 10.33 crore project was initiated at Khetri on the outskirts of Guwahati city in presence of Israeli Ambassador to India, Ron Malka. Expressing hope that the centre would provide a major boost to agric

SILCHAR, Nov ember2 (IANS): With the help of the BSF, the Assam Police on Monday deported 42 Bangladeshi nationals, including women and children, who had entered India illegally, police said. Karimganj district Superintendent of Police Mayank Kumar said that all the 42 were deported through Sutarkandi (India)-Jokiganj (in Bangladesh's Sylhet district) border crossing following Covid-19 protocols and other formalities. "All the 42 people were arrested separately in differ

Newmai News Network Imphal | November 2  The Communist Party of India (CPI), Manipur State Council, on Monday said that the party is not supporting any of the candidates in the fray for November 7 by-polls in four Assembly segments of the state. The party reiterated the party's stand to refrain from the by-polls considering the prevailing situation owing to COVID-19 outbreak. Addressing a press conference at the party office in Imphal, CPI state executive member H Robin

Guwahati, November 2 (IANS): Nine days after his discharge from a hospital after he recovered from the Covid-19 infection, former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has been admitted to a hospital and put on ventilator support after the veteran Congress leader's health condition deteriorated, hospital sources said on Monday. The 85-year-old politician complained of uneasiness on Sunday night, after which he was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of Gauhati Medical College an

Newmai News Network Imphal | November 2  The All Tribal Student Union, Manipur (ATSUM) said on Monday that it will start imposing 48 hours inter-state bandh and ban on construction works of national projects in the state from November 5 if the state government fails to meet the demand.  The apex tribal student body of Manipur reminded that it had given 10 day’s time to the state government to take steps for the conduct of the Autonomous District Council (ADC) ele