The police in Manipur’s Kakching district have booked a man for spinning a yarn about a quarantine centre romance.
Officials did not spell out the quantum of punishment for the social media announcement that had been uploaded as a prank.
The Kukis of the district’s Sugnu area had set up the...
Aizawl, May 22 (PTI) To give a boost to the sports sector in the state, the Mizoram Cabinet on Friday granted industry status to sports.Speaking to PTI after the cabinet meeting, state Sports minister Robert Romawia Royte said the cabinet has cleared the proposal of the Sports and Youth...
Tripura’s BJP-IPFT government Friday said it is expecting to receive Rs. 4,802.88 crore out of the Rs. 20 lakh crore stimulus package announced by the centre earlier this month to battle the coronaviruspandemic.Speaking to reporters at the state secretariat this evening, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said his...
Guwahati, May 22 (PTI) Twelve more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Assam, taking the total number of cases to 222, state Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday.All the new COVID-19 patients were already lodged at three quarantine centres in Tezpur, Jorhat and Silchar,...
Mumbai, May 22 (PTI) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday slashed interest rates, extended moratorium on loan repayments and allowed banks to lend more to corporates in an effort to support the economy which is likely to contract for the first time in over four decades.The benchmark...
Several people were feared dead after a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) carrying 90 passengers and eight crew members crashed in a residential area near the Karachi Airport on Friday, Dawn reported.Abdullah Hafeez, the PIA spokesperson, said that flight PK 8303 from Lahore was about to land in Karachi when...
Assam police have arrested a 50-year-old man for attempting to have sex with the body of a 14-year-old girl. The child had died under mysterious circumstances a few days ago after which family members had buried her body along the Simen River.
The appalling incident took place under the limits...
The number of Americans thrown out of work since the coronavirus crisis struck two months ago has climbed to nearly 39 million, the government said Thursday.More than 2.4 million people applied for unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the outbreak that has triggered nationwide...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to West Bengal and Odisha on Friday to conduct an aerial survey of the damage caused by Cyclone Amphan, a government spokesperson said.“Tomorrow, PM @narendramodi will travel to West Bengal and Odisha to take stock of the situation in the wake of Cyclone...
Tripura got its first ever international waterway as five new protocol routes were announced between India and its eastern neighbour Bangladesh late Wednesday night, with Chief Minister Biplab Deb expressing hope that the state will emerge as ‘gateway of Northeast’ in future by tapping into bilateral connectivity and trade...