Rahul Karmakar

The battle in Arunachal West, one of India’s largest Lok Sabha constituencies by area, is expected to be between Union Minister Kiren Rijiju of the BJP and former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki of Congress. But as the campaign crescendos to the day of polling on April 19, the buzz is around Toko Sheetal, who defied naysayers to walk more than 2,000 km to Delhi in 2022 to make a statement against “large-scale corruption” in the Frontier State and earn the “iron lady” tag.

Gida Yajik, a nonagenarian, does not remember when she last voted or visited a doctor for treatment miles away from home in Pania village of Arunachal Pradesh's Kra-Daadi district.

GUWAHATI A 16-year-old girl who was raped and murdered soon after Assam's Class 10 exams ended on March 4 was among the 1,05,873 students

Post-delimitation, changes in shape and demography and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) are expected to impact the outcome in five of the 14

GUWAHATI Three women have represented the Guwahati seat in the Lok Sabha since the first post-Emergency election in 1977.

The BJP's regional allies have more at stake in the third and final phase of the Lok Sabha election in Assam with the focus on reclaiming

GUWAHATI The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) was the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) stepping stone to power in Assam . More than two decades

A controversial Scheduled Tribe (ST) certificate is believed to have opened a window of opportunity for two regional rivals with the BJP connection in western Assam's Kokrajhar, the only Lok Sabha constituency in the Northeast reserved for plains-dwelling tribes.

Nagaland prepares for long-awaited ULB polls with 33% reservation for women after 20 years of opposition and unrest.

‘Kooki' narrates the trauma of a 16-year-old rape survivor who feels let down by the justice system