Assam

Guwahati: Eminent Assamese litterateur Lakshminandan Bora died on Thursday due to post-COVID complications at a private hospital in Guwahati, the PTI quoted doctors as saying.He was 89 and survived by wife, two sons and a daughter.Bora, a Padma Shri...

Guwahati: Assam has reported 51 more COVID 19 deaths and 4600 new positive cases in the last twenty-four hours.The overall positivity rate in Assam stands at 4.05 per cent.These new cases were detected after carrying out tests of 11,5513...

Guwahati: Amid widespread protests by the doctor's fraternity, Assam police today arrested 24 persons allegedly involved in the brutal assault on an on-duty doctor of COVID care centre in Hojai district in Central Assam.The arrested persons also include a...

Guwahati: In order to mitigate the effects of floods in the UNSECO heritage site Kaziranga National Park, the Assam government has decided to build highlands and floodproofing structures in fringe areas to provide shelter to flood-affected people.A review meeting...

Guwahati: A junior doctor at a Covid Care Centre (CCC) in Assam was beaten up by a mob on Tuesday after a Covid-19 patient died during the treatment.Three persons have been arrested. The video of the assault has gone...

Guwahati: The Assam government has included sanitary napkins to the list of relief materials to be distributed among women and adolescent girls affected by floods and other natural disasters.In an official order Revenue and Disaster Management Department Commissioner and...

Guwahati: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed cases against four promoters/ directors of Guwahati based Ghosh Brothers Automobiles and a chartered accountant and unknown bank officials for causing a loss of Rs 168.82 crore to IDBI bankThe bank...

Guwahati: A Congress legislator from Upper Assam Rupjyoti Kurmi narrowly escaped after miscreants opened fire targeting him at the Disai Valley Reserve Forest along the Assam-Nagaland border in Jorhat district.The incident took place when the MLA visited the reserve...

Guwahati: Assam government Wednesday decided to release the amount of the Direct Benefit Transfer scheme to the entitled person before the 10th of every month.“No file will have to be sent to the Finance Department seeking ceiling for Kushal...

Guwahati: Assam has recorded 92 more deaths due to COVID 19 infection in the last twenty four hours as it registered 5,767 new positive cases during the same time.Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a tweet said the...