By Our Correspondent   Kolkata, June 10: Trinamool Congress lost another Rajya Sabha MP on Wednesday as Sushmita Dev quit the party and resigned her Upper House seat.   Dev, from Assam’s Barak Valley, met Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in New Delhi after submitting...

Shillong (Meghalaya), June 9: NPP’s James P.K. Sangma sailed through nomination scrutiny for Meghalaya’s lone Rajya Sabha seat on Tuesday, leaving him poised for an uncontested win.   Assembly Secretary Malthus S. Sangma, acting as Returning Officer, found Sangma’s papers in order. The MDA candidate...

Guwahati (Assam), June 9: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday pitched for deeper investment frameworks and commercial linkages with European markets as he met a high-level ‘Team Europe’ delegation in the city.   The two-day visit, led by EU Ambassador to India and...

Imphal(Manipur),June 9: Armed groups freed 14 Kuki civilians in Manipur on Tuesday, nearly a month after their abduction from hill villages. The whereabouts of six Naga hostages taken in the same incident remain unknown.   The United Naga Council and Naga People’s Organisation handed the...

Shillong (Meghalaya) June 9 : Tengjrang K. Marak from Konapara in North Garo Hills has been conferred a PhD in Sociology by William Carey University for his study on the Garo tribe’s socio-cultural shift.   Under Prof. Gita Pyal, Marak examined how modernization, education, economic...