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Weather conditions are set to turn favourable in the northeast for the monsoon to set in. The three-month pre-monsoon season did not experience much rainfall this year
Assam now has 304 village panchayats and village councils, which are free of Covid-19, announced state panchayat and rural development (P&RD) minister, Ranjeet Kumar Dass, on Monday.
At least five workers are feared trapped in a 500-feet-deep abandoned coal mine in the Umpleng area of Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district, police said on Monday.
A suspected cadre of the National Liberation Front of Bodoland (NLFB) — a newly floated militant outfit in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) — who disguised himself as a taxi driver was arrested here on Saturday night.
The Assam government has said sanitary napkins will be officially included as part of relief material to be distributed during floods.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the supply of vaccines to Assam would increase by 30% in June, 50% in July and then in August there would be no scarcity.
Earthquake of Magnitude:3.8, Occurred on 31-05-2021, 09:50:50 IST, Lat: 26.69 & Long: 92.35, Depth: 24 Km ,Location: 44km W of Tezpur, Assam, India
Parts of the northeast India may witness heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places on the next two-three days from Sunday, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The skies are expected to remain generally cloudy with heavy rainfall on Monday, the IMD said.
The second wave of the Covid-19 has rendered thousands of people working in different private companies, shopping malls and other establishments jobless. Finding no way to eke out a living, many have started selling fish, meat and vegetables during the non-curfew hours in the city.
Despite acute shortage of vaccines for people aged between 18 and 44, the Assam health department on Saturday approved on-site vaccination of people aged above 18.
Assam lost two sitting legislators within a week to Covid-19 after United People's Party Liberal MLA Leho Ram Boro succumbed to the coronavirus infection at a hospital in Guwahati on Saturday, a doctor of the medical facility said. He was 63.
Assam reported a slight decline in daily Covid-19 numbers on Friday as it recorded 5,436 fresh cases with a positivity rate of 4.42% on Friday. At the same time, 80 people lost their lives to the virus.
With the surge in Covid-19 cases across the district, northeast’s oldest medical facility, the Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH), is struggling to cope with the huge influx of patients.
Assam may have crossed the peak of the second wave of Covid-19 infection earlier this week, as the positivity rate continues to show a declining trend in the past five days.
A high level meeting of the health department was held here on Wednesday, following the Centre’s direction to start vaccination for the 18+ through the offline mode.
Four-time Gossaigaon MLA Majendra Narzary died due to post-Covid complications at a state-run hospital in Guwahati on Wednesday, its doctors said.
The Met office here has warned that there could be heavy rainfall in parts of West Assam and Meghalaya on Wednesday under the impact of Cyclone Yaas in the Bay of Bengal.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed smart windows for automatic climate control of buildings, which can come handy in times of Covid by resisting the spread of the virus in residential apartments. These smart glasses can find applications for efficient automatic climate control in vehicles, locomotives, airplanes and greenhouses of the future.
Assam on Tuesday extended imposition of all Covid-19 curbs, including curfew, which now will be applicable to rural areas as well, till June 5. Like in urban areas, curfew in rural areas will also start from 2 pm and end at 5 am on all days.
Suppliers of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine are in talks with private healthcare institutions in Assam, expressing willingness to deliver the doses.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday appealed for restricting consumption of beef in Hindu-inhabited areas where it is a “sensitive” issue.
People with comorbidities account for 60-70% of fatalities in Assam in the second wave, bringing to the fore their vulnerability once again.
Vaccination for the 18+ category is becoming more challenging due to less stock of the doses in the state.
Officials at Regional Meteorological Centre, Guwahati, on Sunday said Cyclone Yaas, a “very severe cyclonic storm”, will not enter Assam or the northeast.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday asked all deputy commissioners to put in place a community surveillance system to stop the pandemic from spreading from urban to rural areas of the state.
The Mizoram government doled out Rs 91.50 lakh on May 17 from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund to the underprivileged to help them overcome the crisis they are facing because of food shortage due to the prolonged lockdown triggered by the pandemic.
Over 400 passengers of Kanyakumari-Dibrugarh Vivek Express stampeded out of a railway station in Assam’s Morigaon district to evade the mandatory Covid-19 test. They rushed out of the Jagiroad railway station, around 60 km from Guwahati, soon after the train arrived at around 10:30am on Sunday. Mostly migrant workers, including women and children, they had travelled by the train that had set off from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and traversed Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal over five days, covering for over 4,000kms.
Six cadres of the outlawed Dimasa National Liberation Army (DNLA) were killed in an encounter with security forces near Dhansiri in Karbi Anglong district along the Assam-Nagaland border early on Sunday, senior police officers said.
Assam welcomed its first ‘Oxygen Express’ train, which chugged into Amingaon station in north Guwahati from Tata Nagar, Jharkhand, on Sunday.
Assam Police and Assam Rifles in a joint operation gunned down six cadres of Dimasa National Liberation Army (DNLA), a rebel outfit operating in Assam’s hill district of Dima Hasao early on Sunday. The incident took place at Michibailung in Dima Hasao district where combing operations by police and AR personnel are on.
A new scam is doing the rounds in Assam as online fraudsters adopt new tricks of sextortion to dupe and blackmail people via video calls.
The Board of Secondary Education, Assam (Seba) has said it was ready to conduct the Class X exams within 15 days from the day the Covid situation returns to “normalcy”. This was assured to an All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) delegation by the senior officials of Seba during a meeting held in the city on Saturday.
The Mizoram government on Saturday extended total lockdown in Aizawl and other district headquarters by another 7 days to rein in coronavirus surge.
The mighty river has gobbled up vast portions of land in the island posing a threat to its existence. Several organizations like the All Assam Students' Union have strongly criticized government failures to protect Majuli and demanded fruitful measures at the earliest.
Tiger population at Assam’s Manas National Park and Tiger Reserve has increased by over 50% in the last one year, experts describing it as a “remarkable” achievement.
Assam’s imprisoned peasants’ leader Akhil Gogoi, who created history when he became the first candidate in the state to win assembly election while in judicial custody, was the centre of attention as he, along with 124 other members, was sworn-in as a member of the newly elected 15th Assam legislative assembly on Friday.
Assam’s Covid-19 death toll rose to 2,588 on Friday as 81 more people succumbed to the virus in the past 24 hours. At the same time, the state reported 6,066 new cases with 5.88% overall positivity rate, after conducting 1,03,158 tests.
Responding positively to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s appeal, Ulfa(I) released abducted ONGC employee Ritul Saikia at Longwa village in Mon district of Nagaland at around 7am on Saturday.
Daimary had submitted his nomination on Thursday in presence of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and BJP state president Ranjeet Kumar Dass in the assembly secretariat.
