Everything you need to know about Silchar Road: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Silchar Road: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Guwahati, May 20 (IANS) At least ten youths have been arrested for impersonation, allegedly appearing in Combined Entrance Examination (CEE) for medical and engineering courses on behalf of other students, Assam Police said Monday.
Srinagar, May 15 (IANS) Around 125 passengers were rescued in south Kashmir's Shopian district Wednesday when they were caught in heavy snowfall on the Mughal Road connecting the Kashmir Valley with the Jammu region.
Silchar (Assam), May 14 (IANS) The government must try to bring higher education closer to the people in remote areas and remove the imbalances across regions and sections of society, President Pranab Mukherjee said here Tuesday.
Silchar (Assam), May 14 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee attended the annual convocation of Assam University today at Silchar.
New Delhi, May 3 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the extension of the date of completion of the project by two years beyond December 31, 2012 to December 31, 2014.
Mumbai, April 30 (IANS) Lyricist-writer Gulzar has been appointed the new chancellor of Assam University.
Silchar (Assam), April 22 (ANI): The mother of the nine-year old girl who was raped and murdered, has claimed that her daughter's throat was slit with a knife and was left to die.
Cachar (Assam), April 22 (ANI): A nine-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by two unidentified persons in Assam's Cachar on Monday police said.
Guwahati, Apr. 19 (ANI): With the government laying emphasis on empowerment of youth in the northeast, the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Development Institute in Assam has organized a number of training programmes to motivate and guide youth towards a better future.
Agartala, April 6 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the 'Mother Language Festival' in New Delhi May 19 to commemorate the 11 language martyrs killed in police firing in Assam in 1961, an official said here Saturday.
Imphal, Mar 3 (ANI): The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Car Rally was recently flagged off from Kolkata In India to Kunming in China to build new bonds in a region.
Agartala, Feb 21 (IANS) With thousands of people from either side of the border gathering at colourful functions to commemorate the "language martyrs", India and Bangladesh jointly organised the International Mother Language Day.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has urged people of Meghalaya to vote for Congress, as it will work for rapid development of the state and prosperity of its people. He has said that ever since the Congress-led UPA Government came to power in 2004, we have strived for inclusive development of our country. He was addressing a party rally here
Shillong, Feb 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday urged voters in Meghalaya to vote for the Congress in the Feb 23 assembly elections to enable the party continue with its work of development and prosperity for all sections of society in the northeastern state.
Shillong, Feb 11 (IANS) The ruling Congress in Meghalaya in its manifesto released ahead of the Feb 23 assembly polls has promised that it would create one lakh new job opportunities in the non-government sector.
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat Friday trigerred a raging controversy with his remark that rape was primarily prevalent in Indian cities and not in rural India, drawing condemnation from the Congress, the CPI-M and various women's organisations.
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat Friday stirred a controversy with his remark that westernization in Indian cities was the reason behind increasing rape cases as the country is witnessing widespread protests over the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old Delhi woman last month.
New Delhi, Jan 4 (ANI): Union Home Secretary R.K.Singh on Friday rejected Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's contentious distinction remark that rapes occur only in urbanised and westernised India, and not in rural-dominant "Bharat".
New Delhi, Jan. 4 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Friday lashed out at Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat for his remark that rapes are rare in 'Bharat' (rural India) but occur frequently in 'India', saying this reflects the mentality, which refuses to accept the reality of caste oppression or class driven exploitation of women.
New Delhi, Jan 4 (ANI): Defending Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's controversial remark that rapes hardly take place in 'Bharat', but they occur frequently in 'India', RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav on Friday said "we have great respect for women."
Patna, Dec 13 (IANS) Police have attached the property of the prime accused in the killing of an Assamese youth in Bihar, a police official said Thursday.
London, November 26 (ANI): Two menus for lavish lunches on the Titanic have sold for a staggering 100,000 pounds at an auction.
Islamabad, Nov. 8 (ANI): Supply of fuel to NATO troops through the Torkham border post resumed after one year when two oil tankers crossed into Afghanistan amid tight security on Wednesday.
Agartala/Silchar, Oct 20 (IANS) Security has been tightened on the India-Bangladesh border to thwart any terror attack in Tripura and Assam during the Durga Puja festival that began Saturday.
London, Oct 9(ANI): David Haigh, chief executive of Dubai-based investment bank GFH Capital and the man spearheading a 50 million takeover of English football club Leeds United, has compared the Yorkshire based club to a young Pamela Anderson.
Silchar/Agartala, Oct 6 (IANS) The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has cancelled all night trains connecting Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur through southern Assam for an indefinite period due to security reasons, an official said Saturday.
London, Oct 2 (ANI): Adele's official theme song for the new Bond flick 'Skyfall' is to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the famous 007 agent on Friday.
Silchar (Assam), Sep 28 (IANS) National Highway 306, the lifeline of Mizoram, shut for two days after the All Barak Youth Students' Association (ABYSA) declared an indefinite blockaded to protest harassment of non-Mizos in Mizoram, has been reopened for traffic, officials here said
Aizawl, Sep 27 (IANS) Surface communication in landlocked Mizoram was cut off for the second day Thursday as protesers continued to block the national highway against the alleged harassment of non-Mizos in the state.
Silchar (Assam), Sep 26 (IANS) A number of NGOs and local parties Wednesday began an indefinite blockade of the national highway connecting Silchar of southern Assam with Mizoram to protest against alleged harassment of non-Mizos, leaving commuters stranded on either side.
Silchar (Assam)/Aizawl, Sep 22 (IANS) The Assam government has tightened vigil along the Assam-Mizoram border in Cachar district and deployed additional security forces after heightening of tension following destruction of a border pillar by unidentified miscreants, officials said here Saturday.
New York, Sept 14 (ANI): Despite her cheating scandal with director Rupert Sanders, Kristen Stewart has admitted that she is having good time acting wise and is ready to choose her next movie.
Silchar/Agartala, July 25 (IANS) The railway services between southern Assam and other states in the region were partially restored, connecting Tripura, Manipur and Mizoram with rest of the country a month after landslides damaged tracks, an official said Wednesday.
New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) A 32-year-old commerce graduate was arrested along with his wife for cheating people of about Rs.60 lakh on the pretext of providing them international tour packages and air tickets, police said Tuesday.
Guwahati, June 29 (IANS) The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Friday said that all passengers stranded at three locations on the Lumding-Badarpur hill section have been evacuated.
Lucknow, June 20 (IANS) A constable was killed Wednesday when a truck carrying a unit of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) overturned on the outskirts of the Uttar Pradesh capital, police said.
New Delhi, June 11 (ANI): Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh today personally called up Captain Urmila Yadav, Co pilot Yashoo Pereira and Guwahati airport Director Manvinder Singh, and thanked them for ensuring the safe landing of Alliance India flight ATR 42 aircraft VT ABD while operating from Silchar to Guwahati and saving precious life of the passengers. Ajit Singh in particular appreciated the courage and grit of Captain Urmila and her Co-pilot Yashoo with which they acted in the hour of crisis and ensured safety of all 48 passengers on board without letting panic take its grip.
Guwahati/New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The presence of mind of the two pilots, one of them a woman, saved the lives of 48 passengers and crew aboard a Guwahati-bound Air India plane Sunday after it was noticed that one of the two front wheels of the aircraft was missing as it came in to land here.
Silchar/Agartala, June 10 (IANS) Train services between the northeastern states of Tripura, Manipur and Mizoram, as also southern Assam and the rest of India are yet to be restored even after 10 days of disruption following landslides, officials said Sunday.
Guwahati, June 10 (IANS) The presence of mind of two women pilots saved the lives of 48 passengers and the crew aboard a Guwahati-bound Air India plane Sunday after it was noticed that a front wheel of the aircraft missing as it came in to land here.
Guwahati, June 10 (IANS) At least 48 passengers on board an Air India plane had a close shave Sunday morning after the aircraft developed a technical snag mid-air after take off from the Silchar airport, over 350 km from here.
Guwahati, June 10 (ANI): An Air India flight from Silchar made an emergency landing at Guwahati Airport on Sunday morning after experiencing a major technical snag.
Agartala/Silchar, May 8 (IANS) River erosion has made the job of Border Security Force (BSF) guards increasingly difficult and dangerous along the India-Bangladesh border, says a senior BSF official.
New Delhi, Dec 13 (ANI): Minister of State of Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today said that a total of 362 declared foreigners and illegal migrants have been sent to the detention camps in Assam till November 2011.
New Delhi, Dec 13 (ANI): Minister of State of Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today said that a total of 362 declared foreigners and illegal migrants have been sent to the detention camps in Assam till November 2011.
Imphal, Nov.7 (ANI): Manipur is running out of fuel supply even as the economic blocakde entered it's 99th day on Monday.
New Delhi, July 15 (ANI): The people of Arunachal Pradesh are unhappy with the slow pace of development of the Rs.125 billion trans-state highway, despite a repeated declaration by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to complete the project by 2013, a step that would boost infrastructure in the strategic northeastern state bordering China.
New Delhi, May 18 (ANI): The Ministry of Civil Aviation has decided to increase the services of Alliance Air to Lilabari and Tezpur due to non-operation of Pawan Hans Helicopter services to Arunachal Pradesh.
New Delhi, Apr 28 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved enhanced budgetary allocation for the National Automotive Testing and R andD Infrastructure Project (NATRIP) to Rs 2,288.06 crore in view of cost escalation.
London, Mar. 1 (ANI): Everton striker Louis Saha has escaped unharmed after crashing his Ferrari on a country road last night.
Guwahati, Jan 25 (ANI): A powerful bomb planted by unidentified militants on a rail bridge exploded damaging a portion of the tracks and derailing a goods train in Assam's North Cachar Hills District on Tuesday on the eve of Republic Day.
Porampat (Manipur), Dec.22 (ANI): Scores of students enrolled in a nursing academy in Manipur's Porampat town were duped after the institute turned out to be a fake one.
Brisbane, Nov 24 (ANI): A sexual health company's billboard stating "Be a man and... Hold Your Load!" has become the centre of a controversy after a federal MP condemned it as being offensive.
Peshawar, Nov 20 (ANI): Unidentified armed militants launched an attack on a workshop in Peshawar, torching a number of NATO supply tankers parked there.
Silchar (Assam), Sep.23 (ANI): In a reference to the expected court verdict on the Babri Masjid title case in Ayodhya, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that the issue has its relevance in certain parts of Indian society, but added that there were other issues of fundamental importance as well.
New Delhi, Aug.19 (ANI): Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram on Thursday said that all measures were being taken to ensure that essential commodities were available in adequate quantities in all parts of Manipur.
New York, Aug 14 (ANI): Levi Johnston, who has plans to run for mayor of Alaska, has found an ardent supporter in the form of Jimmy Kimmel.
Dimapur, Apr 12 (ANI): Music forms an inseparable part of a Naga's life. The community just loves music.
London, March 19 (ANI): A British man has spotted an enormous pair of pliers flying over a West Bromwich residential street - on Google Street View.
Imphal, Mar 14 (ANI): The Manipur Government has assured full security to non-Manipuri workers in the state who were asked to leave place by May 31 by a banned Revolutionary People's Front, recently.
Auckland, Feb 4(ANI): Relatives of slain India-origin taxi driver Hiren Mohini have said that his death was an "unimaginable and unfathomable event" and described his killer as "barbaric".
New Delhi, Dec 11 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Railways E Ahmed informed the Rajya Sabha on Friday that the Railways has taken up the lining work of 52.7 kilometre long Sevok to Rangpo line in Sikkim.
Guwahati, Dec 4(ANI): There is a gradual improvement in the security scenario in Assam's North Cachar Hills district, following the surrender of the Jewel Garlosa faction of Dima Halim Daogah or 'Black Widow' militants.
North Cachar Hills (Assam), Nov.27 (ANI): The surrender of 'black widow' militants has created a positive influence in North Cachar Hills district of Assam, and there has been a gradual improvement in the security scenario.
London, November 03 (ANI): British singer Will Young has revealed that he apologized to Sir Paul McCartney earlier this year, for doing a bad rendition of the Beatles' hit track 'The Long And Winding Road.'
London, September 27 (ANI): British security agency MI5 is urging women to apply for 25,000 pounds per year mobile surveillance officer roles.
Islamabad, Sep.16 (ANI): The Taliban's threat has still not subsided in the Swat and Malakand Divisions as the security forces have found that the extremists have created a new stronghold in the region and are planning strikes from there.
New Delhi, June 21 (ANI): The full-fledged operation of the special anti-Naxal force, the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) battalion, in naxalite effected states is set to start soon to combat the growing Left-wing extremism in the country.
Guwahati, May 4 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has informed the Election Commission that terrorists in collaboration with some political rivals might bomb the strong room at Silchar in Assam where electronic voting machines (EVMs) have been kept, a party leader said Monday.
Guwahati, April 23 (IANS) Voting for the second and final phase of parliamentary elections in 11 of the 14 constituencies in Assam began Thursday amid heavy security and sporadic rains, officials said.
London, April 19 (ANI): Sir Paul McCartney used his appearance at California's Coachella music festival on April 17 to pay tribute to his late wife Linda - who died of breast cancer in 1998 on the same day.
Repolling is in progress at 37 polling stations across four states on Saturday, including 29 polling booths in Andhra Pradesh, five in Assam, two in Kerala and one in Uttar Pradesh.
Guwahati, April 16 (IANS) Voting in the first phase of elections to 24 parliamentary seats from six of the seven insurgency-hit northeast states ended Thursday, with heavy polling recorded in 10 seats amid incidents of stray violence.
Guwahati, April 16 (IANS) Voting for the first phase of parliamentary elections began Thursday morning amid heavy security in India's restive northeastern region, officials said.
Guwahati, April 16 (IANS) Moderate to brisk polling was recorded in the first three hours of voting Thursday for the first phase of parliamentary elections in India's northeastern region amid heavy security, officials said.
Silchar (Assam), April 13 (IANS) In a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday said the BJP-led government compromised on India's national security by exchanging three terrorists for the Indian Airlines hostages in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1999.
Peshawar, Apr.12 (ANI): At least ten NATO supply trucks were destroyed on Sunday when some unidentified militants fired rockets at the NATO supply terminal located on the Ring Road here.
Guwahati, April 1 (IANS) Perfume baron and Asom United Democratic Front (AUDF) leader Badruddin Ajmal is not as rich as was generally believed, but the cleric sure fancies swanky cars and gold jewellery, if one goes by his declaration.
Guwahati, March 31 (IANS) External Affairs Minister and senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee had a proverbial miraculous escape after his helicopter hit an air pocket when he was going from here to Silchar for an election rally Tuesday evening.
New Delhi, Mar 16 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released names of seven candidates from Assam for the Lok Sabha elections.
Guwahati, March 14 (IANS) In a surprise move, perfume baron and Asom United Democratic Front (AUDF) leader Badruddin Ajmal Saturday said his party will back candidates of Assam's main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in next month's parliamentary elections.
Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) The body of Ugandan footballer Alex Katete, who died after a heart attack in Silchar in West Bengal eight days back, would be flown to his country Thursday, a senior official said Wednesday.
Bangalore, Jan 25 (IANS) Activists of a self-styled pro-Hindu moral brigade called Sri Rama Sene barged into a pub in the coastal city of Mangalore Saturday and bashed up a few young girls for 'violating traditional Indian norms', police said Sunday.
London, Jan 15 (ANI): English actress Kate Winslet has revealed that when 'Revolutionary Road' was being filmed, she would ask her director husband Sam Mendes about her performance even over dinner.
Agartala, Oct 30 (IANS) The Kolkata-based private airline Northeast Shuttles Ltd (NSL) Thursday announced that it has launched a chartered flight service in the northeast region.
Washington, October 6 (ANI): Ace swimmer Michael Phelps received a warm welcome from thousands of people lining the streets of Towson, Maryland, Saturday afternoon to welcome their local Olympic heroes home.
Washington, September 17 (ANI): Keira Knightley has revealed that she loves reading gloomy narratives of the Holocaust and mass murderers.
Washington, Aug 5 (ANI): The Beatles' 'Abbey Road' has been voted the 'Best Final Album' in a new online poll.
London, July 4 (ANI): 'MacBecks' is one play that David Beckham and wife Victoria might want to keep away from, especially as it happens to be a satirical comedy musical on their life.
The Central Government's strong message 'no clemency for fake killings to advance ranks and military careers' has washed out Colonel
