Category: north-east

Two cabin crew members from Manipur - Kongbrailatpam Nganthoi Sharma (20) and Lamnunthem Singson (26) – were killed when the London-bound Air India flight, carrying over 240 passengers, crashed shortly after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport.

In a sensational revelation on Thursday, East Khasi Hills SP Vivek Syiem narrated the entire sequence of events leading to the cold-blooded murder of Raja Raghuwanshi, terming it a pre-planned conspiracy orchestrated by Raj Kushwaha, ‘lover’ of the victim’s wife Sonam Raghuwanshi. 

Prime accused in the Meghalaya honeymoon murder case, Sonam Raghuvanshi and four other accused were kept in different cells of the Sadar police station in Shillong after a court on Wednesday sent all five accused to eight days' police custody, sources said.

A Meghalaya court on Wednesday sent all five accused in the Meghalaya honeymoon murder case, including the victim's wife Sonam Raghuvanshi, to eight days' police custody.

Meghalaya Police Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief interrogated Sonam Raghuvanshi, along with other accused in the shocking Raja Raghuvanshi murder case at the Sadar Police Station in Shillong.

A Home Department official said that the situation in the five valley districts have been reviewed and it is deemed appropriate to partially relax the restrictions while ensuring public safety and maintaining law and order.

The Commissioner of Railway Safety’s (CRS) authorisation of the newly constructed Broad Gauge (BG) line from Hortoki to Sairang would soon link Mizoram's Aizawl, making it the fourth capital city in the northeast region to be connected by a railway network, officials said on Tuesday.

Meghalaya Tourism Minister Paul Lyngdoh on Monday claimed that the recent murder of Indore businessman Raja Raghuvanshi who came to Meghalaya for honeymoon with his wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi, was the result of a love triangle that escalated into a 'contract killing'.

Normal life was badly affected in five valley districts of Manipur on Monday due to the indefinite curfew and 10-day shutdown, called by the Meitei radical outfit Arambai Tenggol.

The Meghalaya Police have said that more information will be revealed in the coming days in the mysterious murder case of Indore-based businessman Raja Raghuvanshi, as his wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi, will be brought down to Meghalaya for judicial proceedings and further interrogation. 

The Assam Congress said on Sunday that it will contest all 40 seats in the upcoming Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections, scheduled for September, opting to go solo and ruling out any pre-poll alliances.

In a shocking twist to the mysterious death of Indore-based Raja during his honeymoon in Meghalaya, police on Monday confirmed the arrest of his wife, Sonam, for allegedly orchestrating his murder by hiring contract killers.

In a shocking twist to the mysterious death of Indore-based Raja Raghuvanshi during his honeymoon in Meghalaya, police on Monday confirmed the arrest of his wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi, for allegedly orchestrating his murder by hiring contract killers.

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has taken a final attempt to link Mizoram's capital Aizawl, which would soon be the fourth capital city in the northeast region to be connected by a railway network. 

The flood situation in Assam marginally improved on Thursday, while the situation further improved in other northeastern states, an official said. With two more fresh deaths in Assam, the death toll in seven states, excluding Sikkim, of the region increased to 48.

The overall flood situation in Assam deteriorated on Wednesday even as the decline in the intensity of the rain, the situation of improved in other northeastern states, an official said. With two more fresh deaths in Assam, the death toll in seven states, excluding Sikkim, of the region increased to 46. 

The overall flood situation in Assam and other northeastern states remained grim on Tuesday, as the death toll in seven states of the region climbed to 44, officials said.

The overall flood situation further deteriorated in Assam while the deluge slightly improved in other northeastern states, even as the death toll in floods, rain, and landslides rose to 36 in six northeastern states.

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and BJP President, Jagat Prakash Nadda, has asked BJP state units and Karyakartas of all northeastern states to provide all possible assistance to the flood-affected people of the region. 

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and Assam Rifles have seized banned highly addictive methamphetamine tablets worth Rs 16.72 crore and arrested three drug peddlers in Mizoram and Tripura, officials said on Sunday. 

The overall flood situation in the northeastern states remained grim with the death toll in six states of the region rising to 34, an official said on Sunday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a telephonic conversation with the Chief Ministers of Assam (Himanta Biswa Sarma),

At least 27 people, including women and children died in six northeastern states while normal life in the region was badly affected for the second consecutive days on Saturday due to moderate to heavy rain triggered by a depression in the Bay of Bengal, officials said on Saturday.

The Tripura government will reconstruct the eco-tourism building along the Tripura-Mizoram inter-state border as the under-construction building was badly damaged by unidentified people on May 27, officials said on Saturday.

Three people, including a child, died in three northeastern states while normal life in most of the states in the region was badly affected due to intermittent light to moderate rain triggered by a depression in the Bay of Bengal, officials said on Friday.

An under-construction building along the Tripura-Mizoram inter-state border was badly damaged by "unidentified people", forcing police authorities of the two states to probe the incident separately, officials said on Thursday.