Guwahati: Gauhati high court on Friday granted bail to Amritprava Mahanta, one of seven accused in the Zubeen Garg death case.The Assam CID-led SIT had charged her with murder, conspiracy, common intention and destruction of evidence.Mahanta is the first accused in the case to be granted bail. The order does not amount to an acquittal….
Guwahati: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll was a “crushing defeat for Rahul Gandhi and his politics”.Celebrating BJP’s victory at the party headquarters in Guwahati on Friday, Sarma said the result exposed the weakness of Rahul’s political strategy.“While AIUDF secured around 38–39% of the votes, Congress managed to secure only about…
Guwahati: APCC president Gaurav Gogoi blamed an alleged Sarma-Ajmal understanding for Congress’s defeat in the Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll.BJP candidate Devasish Sharma won with about 50% of the vote. The constituency has more than 19 lakh voters, while Congress candidate Sibamoni Bora lost by over 5.8 lakh votes.Addressing the media, Gogoi alleged that CM Himanta…
Guwahati: A Rapid Action Force (RAF) head constable sustained minor injuries after an unidentified person hurled a grenade at an outpost of the force in Imphal on Thursday night.Head constable Dhananjay Rai, who is from Uttar Pradesh, was taken to JNIMS hospital and later discharged, a source said.The explosion took place around 10pm at the…
Guwahati: BJP has regained the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat after 12 years, securing about 50% of the vote. AIUDF finished second, followed by Congress.The constituency has witnessed a significant political shift over the past two decades. Former senior BJP leader Rajen Gohain represented Nagaon for four consecutive terms from 1999 to 2014, establishing the party’s…
Guwahati: A special NIA court in New Delhi has sentenced a Thai national and arms smuggler, Willy Naruenartwanich, to six years’ imprisonment in a case registered 16 years ago over an international arms procurement plan of NSCN (IM).NIA stated that the investigation established that the proposed procurement and transhipment arrangement was valued at approximately US$1.2…
Guwahati: Assam Rifles and Indian Army teams detected and neutralised as many as 27 IEDs along an eight-km stretch of road near the India–Myanmar border in Manipur’s Kamjong district.The Army’s Spear Corps wrote on X that the 27 IEDs were detected along the Shangkhalok-Pilong route.Army has not named any organisation responsible for planting the IEDs…
Itanagar: Tension over the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) reached a boiling point on Friday after the Upper Siang district administration ordered the preventive detention of four individuals under the Arunachal Pradesh Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 2014, following a series of violent incidents, arson and public safety threats in the region.The crackdown comes alongside…
Silchar: Bus owners and drivers operating on the Silchar-Haflong route have urged Assam minister Krishnendu Paul to resume services suspended since Sept 8.In a memorandum, the operators sought Paul’s intervention to restore passenger bus services on NH-27 ahead of Durga Puja, citing financial losses and inconvenience to commuters travelling between the Barak Valley and Dima…
Aizawl: Mizoram Police recovered and restored more than Rs 1.06 crore to cybercrime victims in 2026 through the Money Restoration Module (MRM) and other lawful mechanisms, including court orders and action taken after investigation and due legal process, the police said in a statement on Friday.The Cyber Crime Police Station arrested nine alleged cybercriminals from…
