Guwahati

Researchers at IIT-Guwahati develop lab grown meat

7:39 pm August 25, 2019

New Delhi: Researchers at IIT-Guwahati have developed lab grown meat, which is nutritious and will be a step towards cruelty-free food. Lab-grown meat will open new vistas towards cruelty-free food thereby saving the environment as well as the animals, said Dr Biman B Mandal of IIT-Guwahati. In Biomaterial and Tissue Engineering laboratory, researchers have developed […]

NRC Rejection Slip likely from Mar 20: Assam Government

Hindus trump Muslims in forging documents to find way into NRC

3:21 pm August 25, 2019

Guwahati: With the hugely contentious NRC exposing communal faultlines in Assam, it has emerged that more Hindus than Muslims forged documents to find their way into the National Register of Citizens, sources with close knowledge of the exercise said on Sunday. The final NRC list, which will identify bonafide citizens of Assam, is set to […]

2 more districts flooded in Assam; 1.95 lakh affected

Assam flood situation improving; toll climbs to 90

8:13 pm August 4, 2019

Guwahati: Flood in Assam claimed one more life on Sunday, pushing the toll to 90, even as the overall situation improved considerably. Nearly 88,000 people remain affected by the deluge in 10 of the 33 districts of the state, according to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA). Till Saturday, around 1.22 lakh people were […]

Bihar rain: Punpun river water level starts receding

Death toll in Bihar floods rises to 130; situation eases in Assam

11:06 pm July 30, 2019

Patna/Guwahati: Death toll in Bihar floods rose to 130 on Tuesday, but the situation improved considerably in neighbouring Assam where water levels in all the major rivers started receding and no fresh casualty reported from anywhere in the last 24 hours. Casualties remained at 86 in Assam in the current wave of deluge. Thirteen districts […]

Death toll in Assam floods reaches 82

8:38 pm July 28, 2019

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam remained grim with the toll touching 82 on Sunday, following the death of one more person in Barpeta district. A population of 21.68 lakh of 1,716 villages in 56 revenue circles of the state is affected by the deluge. Besides Barpeta, the 17 other affected districts are Dhemaji, Sonitpur, […]