Guwahati, July 21 (PTI): Six persons, including four women, died due to COVID-19 in Assam on Tuesday, pushing the death toll to 64, and the caseload reached 25,092, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Himant
Rights panel seeks report from government
Guwahati, July 21 (PTI): The Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has ordered the chief secretary and inspector general of police (prisons) to submit a report on the
Guwahati, July 21 (IANS): With over 90 per cent of land and forest areas in Assam's Kaziranga National Park flooded by rainwater, at least 116 wild animals have been killed so far due to drowning or vehicle
Guwahati, July 20 (PTI): Assam breached the 25,000-mark in COVID-19 cases with 1,093 fresh cases reported on Monday, while one more person died due to the disease in the state, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sar
Guwahati, July 20 (IANS): The flood situation in Assam further improved on Monday, even though one more person's death was reported in Kamrup (Metro) district, taking the death toll due to the deluge in the
Guwahati, Jul 20 (PTI): Another policeman succumbed to COVID-19 in Assam on Monday, taking the death toll due to the disease in the state to 58, according to the state police.
NK Rajesh Narzary is the seco
Guwahati, July 19 (PTI): Seventy COVID-19 cases have been reported from Assam's Raj Bhavan here, already declared a containment zone, an official said on Sunday.
Of the 70 cases, 27 were detected Satur
Guwahati, July 19 (PTI): All India Mahila Congress President Sushmita Dev was released from Silchar Medical College and Hospital after she tested negative for COVID-19.
Dev was admitted to the hospital on
Rangia/Guwahati, Jul 17 (PTI): Around a hundred patients broke out of a COVID Care Centre in Assam''s Kamrup district and blocked National Highway 31, alleging that they were not being provided with pro
Guwahati, July 15 (PTI): Several senior bureaucrats, including the Commissioner and Secretary to Assam Governor, have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday.
At least five senior officia
Guwahati, July 14 (IANS): Flood in different parts of Assam inundated large swathes of land in Kaziranga National Park, a World Heritage site, killing at least 51 wild animals though 102 animals have been rescu
Guwahati/Agartala, July 11 (IANS) In view of surge in Covid-19 cases, the Assam government is likely to extend the lockdown in the Kamrup (Metro) district for one more week after the 14-day shutdown ends on Sun
Guwahati/Shillong, July 10 (IANS): Meghalaya on Thursday joined the northeastern states in reaching a three-digit figure of coronavirus infections with 13 more persons testing positive while the northeast regio
Guwahati, July 8 (MExN): With Assam battling COVID-19 as well as nature's fury in the form of floods which has affected lakhs of people across the state, the role of the government gains far more significan
Guwahati, July 8 (PTI): Assam reported five more COVID-19 fatalities on Wednesday, taking the state''s death toll due to the disease to 21 while the total number of cases stood at 13,336, Health mi
Guwahati, July 7 (PTI): The State Bank of India''s Northeast head office''s three floors and the entire regional business office were sealed on Monday after at least 30 employees in the two buil
Guwahati, July 7 (IANS): A door-to-door COVID-19 testing programme has been launched here on Tuesday following a surge in COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks.
Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is person
Guwahati, July 7 (PTI): The Assam government has invited textile companies to invest in the state, assuring customised support to their business ventures.
With the advancement of the Act East policy, Assam
Guwahati, July 6 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday announced that the state government has decided to upgrade the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary into a national park.
The Dehing Pa
Guwahati, July 6 (PTI): At least 220 personnel of the Assam Police have tested positive for COVID-19 so far and of them, 171 are undergoing treatment at present, Director General of Police (DGP) Bhaskar Jyoti M