ASSAM

Lovlina tests positive for coronavirus, misses flight to Italy

11:48 pm October 15, 2020

New Delhi: Two-time world championship medal winning boxer Lovlina Borgohain on Thursday tested positive for coronavirus, hours before she was about to board a flight to Italy along with the Indian contingent for a training-cum-competition trip. The Sports Authority of India (SAI) had sanctioned a Europe tour for 16 elite Indian boxer for a period of 52 days from October to […]

Flood situation in Assam continues to improve

10:31 pm October 6, 2020

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam continued to improve on Tuesday although more than 77,500 people are still suffering due to the deluge across three districts, an official bulletin said. According to the daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), Nagaon is the worst hit with more than 49,200 people affected, […]

Top UPRF militant killed in encounter in Assam: Police

3:54 pm October 6, 2020

Guwahati/Diphu: Martin Guite, the self-styled ‘chairman’ of militant outfit United People’s Revolutionary Front (UPRF), has been killed in a night-long encounter in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, police said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a police team launched a search operation in the forests of Singhasan Hill on Monday night, a senior police officer from […]

Union Minister Jitendra Singh releases book on Assam’s heritage

11:02 pm October 4, 2020

New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday released a coffee table book – ‘Discovering the Heritage of Assam’- with a foreword by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan. The voluminous book with pictures and photographs on glaze paper presents an absorbing compilation of heritage, faith, beliefs and traditions of different ethnic tribes and sub-tribes living in Assam, the largest […]

Sarbananda Sonowal takes charge as AYUSH minister

Cyber safety awareness campaign launched in Assam

3:43 pm October 2, 2020

Guwahati: A month-long cyber safety awareness campaign targeting youngsters has been launched in Assam, a senior police officer said. The ‘CyberSafety’ campaign will be jointly conducted by the Assam Police and cyber-security think tank Cyber Peace Foundation (CPF), Additional Director General of Police (Administration and Security) Harmeet Singh said. It was launched by Chief Minister […]