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NFR to run 7 festival special trains from September to November 2025, easing festive travel rush on major northeast and Kolkata routes.
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Centre will take steps to obtain Presidential assent to a six-year-old Bill to identify foreigners and genuine residents in the North-eastern state.
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Assam continues to face a severe flood crisis, affecting nearly seven lakh people across 21 districts. The death toll from the first wave of floods and landslides has risen to 19, with one person missing in Cachar district. Nine major rivers, including the Brahmaputra and Barak, are flowing above danger levels, causing widespread inundation. A total of 1,494 villages across 66 revenue circles have been affected, with Sribhumi district hardest hit, impacting over 2.5 lakh people. Floodwaters have submerged nearly 15,000 hectares of crop area and affected more than five lakh animals. Authorities have set up 405 relief camps sheltering over 41,000 people, along with more than one lakh relief distribution centers. Significant damage has been reported to infrastructure such as roads, bridges, schools, and electricity poles. Flooding has disrupted train services in southern Assam, leading to cancellations of some short-distance trains, although long-distance trains remain operational. The situation remains critical as water levels continue to rise.
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Over 1,600 tourists stranded in North Sikkim’s Lachung and Chungthang due to rain-triggered landslides have been safely evacuated. With roads damaged and bridges affected, rescue teams led by the BRO, police, and local administration worked round the clock. Tourists praised the support from locals, police, and army personnel. Authorities now urge caution as the monsoon approaches and the risk of further landslides grows.
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Incessant rainfall continues to devastate Assam and other northeastern states, claiming 11 lives—6 in floods and 5 in landslides. Over 5.15 lakh people across 22 districts in Assam have been affected. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to the CMs of Assam and Sikkim, and the Governor of Manipur, extending full support and promising all necessary aid. Rescue and relief efforts are ongoing as authorities race to help stranded residents and restore access in waterlogged areas. Stay tuned for the latest updates on this unfolding crisis.
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The home minister said there has been 70 percent reduction in violence in the Northeast in the last five years, 70 percent less casualties in security forces and 85 percent less deaths among civilians.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the three-day Ashtalakshmi Mahotsav, to celebrate the cultural heritage and economic potential of the 8 North-Eastern states. Here's what to expect at the 1st Ashtalakshmi Mahotsav in Delhi from December 6-8.
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the opening of over 100 branches of India Post Payments Bank in the region.
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The region has vast potential that will be better tapped once the projects under construction are complete
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A road trip to Tawang, past high mountain passes, icy peaks and surreal landscapes.
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Addressing a public meeting on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the North East Council (NEC) here, he also said that improved air connectivity provided to the region has been helping export of agricultural produce, benefiting farmers.
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Addressing a public meeting on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the North East Council (NEC) here in presence of the Prime Minister, Shah said Modi visited the region over 50 times during the past eight years and laid out the roadmap for the region’s progress.
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Set in Assam, Nilaanjan Reeta Datta's ‘Shadow Assassins’, which released today across theatres, is one of the very few Hindi films to get the region’s social and historical specifics right, including insurgency.
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It also vehemently defended the exclusion of certain areas of Assam and other Northeastern states from the application of the CAA, saying it has been done to "protect the ethnic/linguistic rights" of the natives and this was "not discriminatory".
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President Droupadi Murmu was speaking after virtually inaugurating and laying the foundation stones for various central and state projects from the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati.
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While 11,000 kg of drugs, seized by the NCB, were destroyed in Guwahati, another 8,000 kg of narcotics, seized by the Assam government agencies, were also set on fire.
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Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, announced this during a press conference held in Dimapur on Tuesday, the last day of his three-day visit to Nagaland.
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The government had on February 10, 2009 issued an order for this particular grant, called as "special allowance for officers belonging to north-east cadres of all India services".
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The bank started operations in June 2017 following RBI's license to promote digital payments and enable financial inclusion, providing banking services in unbanked and under-banked locations through a branchless network of tech-enabled points, the Bank's Chief Sales Officer Shailesh Pandey told PTI.
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The station will be operated by Christina Rindiki, an entrepreneur who started a last mile delivery company called Servico with Amazon's Delivery Service Partner programme.
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A Climate Vulnerability Index of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water has named Assam among the states most vulnerable to extreme climate events. The report says the Northeast states are more vulnerable to floods.
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Sameer Oraon was speaking at a function marking the eight years celebration of Modi government organized by the Nagaland BJP unit here on Tuesday.
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For the Northeast to be equipped to fit into the Act East Policy, we need a realistic plan that takes into account the fact that the region is not only geologically fragile, but is also socially and politically hyper-sensitive
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Various projects involving over Rs 19,100 crore of assistance by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are being implemented in the North-East region of India, a top official said.
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The North-East is a collage of languages, religions, and ethnic groups. The focus of the Government of India ought to be on preserving and promoting these, and preventing their extinction, instead of focussing its energies on promoting Hindi by making it a compulsory subject in schools
