Sibsagar showdown: Akhil Gogoi battles BJP-AGP friendly-fight in AssamAkhil Gogoi is fighting on a platform of regionalism and anti-incumbency, backed by the Congress-led 6-party alliance, while Prodip Hazarik...
04 Apr, 2026, 12.51 PM IST
PM Modi pushes for cooperative federalism at Tripura oath-taking ceremonyOn Friday, Biplab Kumar Deb took oath as the chief minister of the state and Jishnu Deb Burman took charge as his deputy.
10 Mar, 2018, 06.47 AM IST
Committed to winning back trust of people in NE: Rahul GandhiThe party won 21 seats in Meghalaya, where it was in power, and could not garner the support of regional outfits to cobble together a coali...
05 Mar, 2018, 06.01 PM IST
View: Don't over-read the Northeast verdictThe results of elections to Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan will more likely set the background for the May 2019 gene...
05 Mar, 2018, 09.46 AM IST
Out of Congress, Himanta Biswa Sarma now BJP’s kingmakerSarma’s modus operandi is clear — break the rival and win its key leaders over to BJP. Like him, Manipur CM Biren Singh and Arunachal Prade...
04 Mar, 2018, 12.23 PM IST
Past thin red line, fear of CPM goons vanishesFearing that CPM cadre would take the city by storm if the Left Front won, state police in riot gear were deployed at vantage points.
04 Mar, 2018, 11.08 AM IST
Why Ram Madhav is BJP’s man for all seasons, all statesMadhav is one of the most well-known faces of BJP in the north-east and had been shuttling between the three states in the last one month.
04 Mar, 2018, 10.18 AM IST
BJP will support non-Congress formation in Meghalaya: Himanta Biswa SarmaNortheast Democratic Alliance convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma said he has talked to NPP and UDP and both parties must come together to form a ...
03 Mar, 2018, 10.36 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi says BJP win amidst Left violence and false propagandaThough the PM focused his speech mainly on the Left, Modi also took jibes at Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi, saying in some parties people ris...
03 Mar, 2018, 07.40 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi hails BJP's 'Shunya' to 'Shikhar' surge in TripuraThe prime minister credited BJP's victory to a "solid development agenda" saying that it "is not an ordinary electoral victory".
03 Mar, 2018, 07.02 PM IST
73 per cent votes polled in Nagaland re-pollingAltogether 5728 voters out of the 7841 exercised their franchise in the 13 polling stations. That means 73.05 per cent votes were polled.
02 Mar, 2018, 10.10 PM IST
Meghalaya, Nagaland votes; stray incidents of violence reportedWith Nationalist Democratic People's Party(NDPP) chief Neiphiu Rio winning unopposed the Northern Angami-II seat, polling is being held in ...
27 Feb, 2018, 05.55 PM IST
Congress not dragging religion into politics: Vincent H PalaChristianity dominated Meghalaya is going to polls on February 27.
26 Feb, 2018, 07.33 AM IST
How elections in Meghalaya and Nagaland sidestep the national narrativeMeghalaya and Nagaland are both overwhelmingly tribal states and their 60-member state assemblies pale before India’s bigger states that bl...
24 Feb, 2018, 11.30 PM IST
Battleground Northeast: Brisk early voting in TripuraPolling is being held for 59 of the 60 assembly seats today, after the demise of CPM Candidate Ramendra Narayan Debbarma in Charilam assemb...
19 Feb, 2018, 05.24 PM IST
Voting for BJP is nothing less than suicide, Rahul Gandhi tells Tripura votersAddressing an election rally at Kailashahar in North Tripura, Gandhi said, "BJP is trying to purchase vote with money."
16 Feb, 2018, 08.28 PM IST
Previous prime ministers were so busy that they hardly had time to visit Northeast: PM ModiChina has often reacted when Indian prime ministers and presidents have visited the state for it considers Arunachal a part of its territor...
16 Feb, 2018, 07.55 AM IST