Presumably when the Indian National Congress (INC) recorded slight gains from northeast India in the General Elections 2024, an abridged space was offered to the Parliamentarians from the region in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new cabinet. Compared to the Modi 2.0 cabinet, where once five MPs from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Tripura were inducted…
Nava Thakuria In the middle of India’s national elections, where three phases of polling were successfully completed (another four are waiting), various sections have expressed concern over the low voters’ turn out in the largest electoral show on Earth. Election Commission of India (ECI), which conducts all important polls under constitutional provisions in the country…
As the biggest electoral show on the planet began on 19 April 2024, the electorates of northeast Bharat have recorded an impressive voters’ participation. Thousands of nominees from various national and regional political parties (along with some independent candidates) are contesting in the seven-phase general elections, where the counting of votes in electronic voting machines…
Guwahati: Polling begins for seven Parliamentary constituencies of Assam, Tripura and Manipur in northeast India this morning under the second phase of 18th Lok Sabha elections. As the clock ticked past 7 am, the electoral process in Darrang-Udalguri, Diphu, Silchar, Karimganj and Nagaon seats of Assam along with Tripura East and Outer Manipur started. North-eastern…
As the biggest electoral show on the planet began on 19 April, where 969 million Indian eligible voters start exercising their franchise in the seven-phase polling conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to elect 543 members to the 18th Lok Sabha for the next five years, the far eastern part of Bharat has…
Imphal. RK Ranjan who was sworn in as Union Minister of State incharge of External Affairs and Education on Wednesday, is a member of an erstwhile royal clan in Manipur and has worked for unity among various tribes in his State. The new Minister is the fourth from Manipur to be inducted in the Union…
Guwahati: Northeast loses one more scribe to Covid-19 as Ukhrul (Manipur) based television journalist Thotshang Shaiza succumbed to the novel corona virus infection related ailments on 12 June 2021. Shaiza (52), who worked for ISTV cable news channel and also a Tangkhul newspaper, passed away while undergoing treatment at Jawaharlal Nehru medical sciences institute in…
