Heavy downpour triggered damage in several parts of Assam and Meghalaya on Thursday morning leading to traffic disruption. The flood situation in Assam’s Tamulpur district has turned worsened after new areas in the district have been inundated by flood waters of several rivers today. In Assam, a portion of a
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A minor earthquake struck the northeastern state of Meghalaya in the early hours of Monday, June 13. As per the national centre for seismology (NCS), Tura happened to be the epicenter of the earthquake. The national body that keeps records of earthquakes, informed that tremors were felt at around 6.32
The Arunachal Pradesh State Election Commission Tuesday announced by-poll to 130 gram panchayat seats along with one zila parishad seat on July 12. Election to 40 gram panchayat seats and one in zila parishad in Vijoynagar administrative sub-division under Changlang district have, however, been kept pending due to law and
Researchers at the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have rediscovered a rare plant, which is sometimes called the ‘Indian lipstick plant’, from remote Anjaw district in Arunachal Pradesh after more than a century. The plant (Aeschynanthus monetaria Dunn) was first identified by British botanist Stephen Troyte Dunn in 1912, based
A 29-year-old man has been arrested from a village near the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram’s Champhai district after heroin worth Rs 8.75 lakh was seized from his possession, according to an official release. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the excise department officials apprehended the drug peddler from a