Shweta Raj Kanwar | January 24, 2018 Social media may be a boon for many but the repercussions of underrated posts that seems to pick up pace faster than credible issues cannot be undermined. As unmoderated as it may seem, social media is definitely not for the faint hearted as one requires a heart of […]
Is Bangladesh on the verge of another mass refugee influx? Bangladesh has opened its border for the persecuted Rohingya refugees on humanitarian grounds after violence erupted in Rakhine state of neighbouring Myanmar on August 25 last year. The country has been hosting more than one million refugees from Myanmar since 1990s. The central reason of […]
Date: January 3, 2018 To the Editor TNT- The Northeast Today Respected Sir/Ma’am Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya are heading into election mode and the recent results from Gujarat elections have just brought the limelight back to the Congress party. The major turnover from the election result is the neck to neck count from the […]
Date: January 3, 2017 To The Editor TNT- the Northeast Today Respected Sir/Ma’am The Lok Sabha was recently informed that over 10 crore people in the country are getting water contaminated with excess fluoride. Access to clean drinking water is a far flung dream for the country, the dilemma not always lies with the political might but the conscience of each and every one of us. Water has […]
From our special correspondent Guwahati, January 2, 2018 What former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had agreed in 1985 to end the “troubled” six-year-long anti-foreigner movement in Assam has almost been fulfilled under Narendra Modi government but only after being ordered by the Supreme Court. Release of the first draft of the updated National Register of […]
TNT News | December 31, 2017 As the year draws to an end, we take a sneak peek at 2017 and what it brought for Assam The issue of ethnic identity, culture and the threat posed by illegal immigration continued to be a major talking point in 2017 as the new BJP govt which came […]
By DEBRAJ DEB | Agartala, December 31, 2017 As the year draws to an end, we take a sneak peek at the year 2017 and what it brought for Tripura. For all it may seem, the year was full of political surprises and unimaginable turmoils. Two journalists were killed – one hacked to death and […]
By SHWETA RAJ KANWAR | December 31, 2017 2017 has been a year of strange happenings: From suicidal games to rapist god fathers, from cows being worshipped to women being harassed, from journalists being killed to freedom being restricted, busting fake news from real and using social media as a source of spreading false information […]
By DIPANKAR SARKAR | December 29, 2017 Northeast Indian film making space is no longer at an infant stage. A slew of films made on low as well as big budgets and displaying a profound sense of originality and craft made the region boast of a transition, which completely satisfies the contemporary requirements of excellence […]