The security personnel in Mizoram and Assam have seized highly addictive methamphetamine tablets valued at Rs 42 crore and arrested three drug peddlers including two Myanmar nationals during the past 24 hours, officials said on Tuesday.
Category: SHILCHAR
Nupi Lal Day celebrated in Tripura, Assam & B’desh; rich tributes paid to women freedom fighters
The historic ‘Nupi Lal’ (women’s war) day was observed in Tripura, Assam and Bangladesh besides in Manipur to pay rich tributes to women freedom fighters who took part in the war against colonial British actions in 1904 and 1939.
Tripura hotel, restaurant owners shut services for Bangladeshi visitors
After a multi-speciality private hospital in Agartala, an apex body of the hotels and restaurant owners in Tripura has decided not to provide accommodation and services to the Bangladeshi nationals in protest against the atrocities on Hindus in the neighbouring country.
Drugs valued at Rs 4.5 cr seized in Assam, 4 held
Drugs worth nearly Rs 4.5 crore have been seized and four drug peddlers were arrested from southern Assam’s Karimganj district on Sunday, officials said.
Drugs valued at Rs 15.5 crore smuggled from Myanmar seized in Assam; 2 held
Assam Police have seized drugs, smuggled from Myanmar, valued at Rs 15.5 crore, and arrested two drug peddlers in Cachar district in this connection, an official said on Saturday.
Manipur tribal bodies slam Assam Police for the death of 3 youths in 'fake encounter'
Several tribal organisations in Manipur on Thursday accused the Assam Police of “whimsically orchestrating extra-judicial killings of three youths” belonging to the Hmar tribal community on Wednesday.
One killed, many injured as bus carrying Tripura bank job aspirants overturns in Assam
At least one person was killed and many others injured, all candidates of a recruitment exam of a Tripura bank, when their bus carrying the job aspirants overturned in Assam's Dima Hasao district, officials said on Thursday.
NIT Silchar students on indefinite hunger strike demanding resignation of Director & Dean
Students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) here began an indefinite hunger strike on Monday in protest of the academic dean's alleged involvement in a student's suicide on the campus premises last week.
Senior Assam scribe held for referring to Mahatma Gandhi as 'British spy', released on bail
Septuagenarian journalist Atin Das was arrested on Friday in Assam’s Hailakandi district for referring to Mahatma Gandhi as “a spy of the British” before being released on bail, the police said.
In Assam jail for 4 yrs, Nepalese woman severely ill before her return to home
She was sent to jail after legal proceedings. At the end of the trial, the court announced a two-year sentence for her. The sentence expired on December 27, 2020. The woman has since been kept in the Central Jail Transit Camp (formerly Detention Camp) in Silchar.