Guwahati, January 17 (IANS): Now robots would deliver medicines and essential services to Covid-19 patients at a hospital in Assam, officials said here on Sunday. The robots designed by the Guwahati-based Yantrabot Technologies Pvt Limited with remote controllable robotic vehicles would deliver food, medicines and other essential services to Covid-19 patients as well as patients with other extremely contagious diseases inside the isolation chambers of the quarantine facilities. A

Guwahati, January 12 (PTI): The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday put an interim stay on the Assam Assembly secretary’s notification withdrawing recognition to Congress leader Debabrata Saikia as the Leader of the Opposition in the 126- member House. After hearing a writ petition filed by Saikia, Justice Achintya Malla Bujor Barua issued notices returnable within four weeks to the speaker, secretary and principal secretary of the Assembly, and the chief secretary of the state.

Guwahati, January 12 (IANS): As the ruling BJP kicks off its Assembly poll campaign in Assam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and other central leaders would hold a series of election rallies in the northeastern state next week, BJP leader and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday. BJP National President J.P. Nadda, who left here on Tuesday for Delhi, addressed a public gathering in southern Assam's Silchar on Monday and claimed that the saffro

Guwahati, January 12 (IANS): At least six people, including a woman, were injured when a 70-year-old man started firing from his gun from the roof of a building in Assam's Goalpara on Monday, police said. The man, identified as Animesh Chandra Rai, has been arrested and his licensed gun seized, police said. The injured were immediately shifted to the hospital. "Personal enmity might be the cause for the firing. However, we are investigating," a police official to

Guwahati, January 12 (PTI): BJP president J P Nadda held a series of meetings with senior party leaders of Assam on the upcoming assembly election, the saffron party''s state unit Ranjeet Kumar Dass said on Tuesday. Discussions were held on wide-ranging issues related to the polls, including the strengthening of the party''s organisational structure, he told reporters here. Nadda conducted three meetings with the members of the core committee, election committee a

Guwahati, January 9 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday flagged off 25 buses exclusively for women and senior citizens to travel within the city of Guwahati. Flagging off the new pink buses under Bhraman Sarathi Scheme, Sonowal said that the free transport service would immensely help women and senior citizens. The new bus service of the Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) would give a new dimension to the state governments welfare measures in the new

Guwahati, January 10 (IANS): BJP national President JP Nadda would arrive in Assam on Monday on a two-day visit and address a public rally in Silchar to kick-start the ruling party's campaigning for the coming Assembly elections, party leaders said on Sunday. Bharatiya Janata Party's Assam unit General Secretary Rajdeep Roy said that besides addressing the public gathering at the Police Parade Ground in Silchar on Monday, Nadda would also meet with senior party leaders. H

Guwahati, January 9 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday flagged off 25 buses exclusively for women and senior citizens to travel within the city of Guwahati. Flagging off the new pink buses under Bhraman Sarathi Scheme, Sonowal said that the free transport service would immensely help women and senior citizens. The new bus service of the Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) would give a new dimension to the state governments welfare measures in the new

Guwahati, January 3 (PTI): Petroleum major Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) on Sunday paid an interim dividend of Rs 122.61 crore to the Assam government for the current fiscal. The state government holds 12.35 per cent stake in the PSU firm. NRL Managing Director S K Barua gave a cheque of Rs 122.61 crore as interim dividend for the 2020-21 financial year to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, a company statement said. The interim dividend was based on the financial performance o

Guwahati, January 3 (PTI): Assam reported two more deaths due to COVID-19, pushing the death toll to 1,051, while the coronavirus tally mounted to 2,16,289 with 38 fresh cases, the National Health Mission (NHM) said in a bulletin. The overall positivity rate stood at 3.58 per cent against total testing of 60,38,661 samples so far, it said. The state reported 80 single-day recoveries, taking the total count to 2,12,069, NHM said late on Saturday. Assam now has 3,166 active cases

Guwahati, November 8 (IANS): Apart from defending the frontiers, fighting terrorists, and undertaking rescue missions in emergencies, the Indian Army has now launched coaching for students in the northeast region as educational institutions remain shut for over seven months now due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Under "Operation Sadbhavna", the Army's Spear Corps has undertaken to conduct coaching classes for students of Classes 9 to 12 in Miao and Kharsang villages of Arun

Agartala/Shillong/Guwahati, November 4 (IANS): Israeli Ambassador to India, Ron Malka, who is now visiting the northeastern region of the country, is keen to extend his countrys technologies to boost the agriculture and horticulture sectors as well as the information technology (IT) segment of the northeastern states, officials said on Wednesday. After visiting Assam and Meghalaya, the Israeli Ambassador, accompanied by his wife Lea Malka and a delegation, arrived in Agartala on Wed

Guwahati, November 3 (IANS): Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday laid the foundation stone of the Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Vegetables Protected Cultivation, intended to boost agricultural activities with the help of the latest Israeli technologies. The Rs 10.33 crore project was initiated at Khetri on the outskirts of Guwahati city in presence of Israeli Ambassador to India, Ron Malka. Expressing hope that the centre would provide a major boost to agric

Guwahati, November 2 (IANS): Nine days after his discharge from a hospital after he recovered from the Covid-19 infection, former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has been admitted to a hospital and put on ventilator support after the veteran Congress leader's health condition deteriorated, hospital sources said on Monday. The 85-year-old politician complained of uneasiness on Sunday night, after which he was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of Gauhati Medical College an

Guwahati, November 2 (IANS): Five members of a "debt-ridden" family, including four women, allegedly committed suicide at their home in Assam's Kokrajhar district, police said on Monday. Kokrajhar's Superintendent of Police Rakesh Raushan said that shop owner Nirmal Paul, his wife and three daughters were committed suicide by hanging themselves at their home at Tulsibeel late on Sunday night. "Paul had debts of Rs 25-30 lakh and he was unable to repay his E

Guwahati, November 1 (IANS): A Congress MLA's proposal to set up a museum for the Muslims living in Char Anchal (riverine area) at the famous Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, sparked a debate in Assam with the state's powerful Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday saying that once the BJP is voted back to power the legislator would be sent to jail. Sarma told the media that the MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed would not be spared and after the next year's Assembly elections he

Guwahati, October 31 (IANS): The educational institutions in Assam are set to reopen next week with strict Covid-19 guidelines after over seven months of closure, officials said on Saturday. The schools are going to open on Monday. According to the officials of the state Education Department, the students from Class 6 to 12 would only attend the schools and a standard operating procedure (SOP) has been issued in this regard. The officials said the students of classes 6, 8 and

Aizawl/Guwahati, October 31 (IANS): As the blockade on National Highway 306, the lifeline of Mizoram, entered the fourth day on Saturday, the Mizoram government ferried fuel and cooking gas from neighbouring Manipur and Tripura. The fresh deadlock at its border with Assam has been continuing since Wednesday despite a series of top level meetings, officials said on Saturday. In Guwahati, Assam Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday that

NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 29 (IANS): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out searches at four locations in Assam's Guwahati and Maharashtra's Sangli in Delhi gold smuggling case. An NIA spokesperson said that the agency sleuths carried out searches at the premises related to accused persons and their handlers from where they used to give effect to the commission of crime. "During searches, incriminating documents and electronic devices containing det

Guwahati, October 25 (IANS): Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi (85) was discharged from the hostpital after more than 60 days on Sunday after he recovered from the Covid-19 infection, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Sarma in a tweet said, "Former Chief Minister of Assam Sri Tarun Gogoi has been discharged from Guwahati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) today (Sunday) after 60 days of hospitalisation. His further treatment shall continue in his official r