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Dibrugarh (Assam): In a very critical operation, a team of doctors at the Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) on Wednesday removed an ovarian tumour weighing 30 kg from a 16-year-old girl, a senior medical practitioner of the establishment...

Tokyo: Kentaro Kobayashi, the director of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games, has been dismissed from his role after his past comments on the Holocaust resurfaced online.The move was made by Tokyo 2020 organizers just one day...

Guwahati:  In a major development that can bring peace in Assam's Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), all militants of the newly formed insurgent group National Liberation Front of Bodoland (NLFB) will surrender on Thursday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.The...

Washington: Two doses of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines are effective against the new delta COVID variant but not as effective as they are against the original, a study published in the US New England Journal of Medicine revealed.Two...

Moscow: The Syrian air defence forces have downed most rockets fired by Israel from the Lebanese airspace at the central province of Homs, Al-Ikhbariya state-run broadcaster reported.About an hour earlier, the broadcaster reported that the Syrian air defense systems...

Beijing: Chinese government on Thursday refused the World Health Organization (WHO)'s proposal for a further probe in China to determine the origin of the corona virus.China's deputy director of the National Health Commission Zeng Yixin described the proposal for...

Moscow: Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina survived an assassination attempt, Sputnik quoted an Agence France-Presse report on Thursday, the report cited Madagascar's prosecutors.Authorities reportedly thwarted an assassination attempt on Rajoelina and detained several "foreigners and residents of Madagascar."According to the...

Sydney: The United States has tried to contain China's rise in a so-called "tech cold war," which is becoming the decisive battlefield for competition between the two countries, according to an article by Australia's ABC News recently.China has invested...

Guwahati: Assam's COVID-19 tally rose to 5,52,425 on Wednesday as 1,547 more people tested positive for the infection, while 25 fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 5,053, a health bulletin said.Kamrup Metropolitan district registered the highest number...

Beijing: Over 105,000 people in south China's Guangdong Province have been evacuated to safety over the past days as the province braced for Typhoon Cempaka.Typhoon Cempaka, the seventh typhoon this year, made landfall in the coastal area of Guangdong...