‘Charaideo’

Covid cases: Deaths in Assam touch record highs

11:41 pm May 17, 2021

Guwahati: Assam reported a record 92 deaths due to COVID-19 on Monday, while the number of COVID-19 cases registered an all-time high of 6,394 persons, pushing the total number of infections to 3,35,023, the National Health Mission (NHM) said. With 26 persons in Kamrup Metropolitan, 11 in Kamrup, seven in Sonitpur, six in Darrang, five each in Cachar, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia, three each in Barpeta, Nagaon, Nalbari and Sivasagar, two […]

India fighting Covid with all its might: PM Modi

Modi in Bengal, Assam on Sunday to inaugurate, lay foundations of development projects

8:31 pm February 5, 2021

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in West Bengal and Assam on Sunday for inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of several development projects and will also address public meetings on these occasions in the two poll-bound states. His office said on Friday that Modi will lay the foundation stone of two hospitals and launch ‘Asom Mala’, a programme for state […]

Flood waters continue to recede in Assam; one dead

11:17 pm July 8, 2020

Guwahati : The situation in Assam improved on Wednesday as flood waters receded from a district, but the deluge claimed another life, raising the death toll to 40, the State Disaster Management Authority said. Over 1.7 lakh people across 12 districts have been affected by the flood waters, the ASDMA said. On Tuesday, nearly two lakh people were affected […]

British national dies aboard cruise boat in Assam

11:43 pm January 31, 2020

Jorhat (Assam): A 76-year-old tourist from the UK died aboard a cruise boat in Assam on Friday, police said. Alastair Neil Macdonald was found dead on the ‘Charaideo’ when it was returning from a week-long tour of areas in Upper Assam. It is owned by the Assam-Bengal Navigation Company, they said. Macdonald was a part […]