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In a bid to contain spread of coronavirus, officials in Meghalaya said that the night curfew would remain in force in Shillong and other adjoining areas under the East Khasi Hills district for the next seven days from Monday. Besides Shillong, the night curfew is being extended in Mizoram capital Aizawl. East Khasi Hills’ District Magistrate Isawanda Laloo issued a notification extending the curfew in Shillong, which is also the district headquarters, until February 14. Health officials, security personnel, officials and personnel of essential services including media and the vehicles carrying essential goods are excluded from the purview of the…

Nagaland Governor R.N. Ravi has directed the chief secretary to initiate criminal proceedings against state government employee indulging in “seditious and subversive” writings challenging the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country and posting them on social media platforms, a Deccan Chronicle report stated. Referring to one such instance of a state government official, the commissioner and secretary to Nagaland Governor, T. Mhabemo Yanthan said in his letter, “I have been directed to request the state government to take serious cognizance of such misconduct and initiate appropriate legal and disciplinary action against the delinquent government servants”, the report said. The…

After a relative downslide over the past few weeks,there has been a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in the last few days with 40 new cases detected on Sunday, taking the active cases to  137 in the State. Director Health Services (MI), Dr. Aman War said the new COVID-19 cases detected comprised of 26 in East Khasi Hills district, 11 in West Jaintia Hills district and three in Ri-Bhoi district.    With 92 active Covid-19 cases and 121 deaths, the East Khasi Hills, that includes state capitalShillong, is the most affected district.    War informed that four persons in East Khasi…

Left parties and their front organisations on Saturday organised sit-in demonstrations instead of the ‘chakka jam’ against the three farm laws in Assam and Tripura. In Assam, the Communist Party of India-Marxist Central Committee member Suprakash Talukdar said that the Left parties along with the front organisations have organised sit-in protests at around 12 places across the BJP-ruled state. The protest demonstrations were held for several hours in every place expressing solidarity with the farmers and demanding immediate withdrawal of the three farm laws. “We would continue to organise different types of protests against the three farm legislations,” Talukdar told…