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Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that union home minister Amit Shah called him up to say that ICMR is seeing the rising trend of Covid-19 cases in Guwahati similar to that of Mumbai and Delhi.
A Dibrugarh couple on Tuesday donated Rs 21 lakh to Iskcon to build a temple in the eastern Assam town with the compensation they received after a long legal battle over their son's death in a boarding school nine years ago.
Floods on Tuesday claimed three more lives, two in Barpeta and one in Dibrugarh districts, taking the toll in the state to 27.A female rhino was also found dead at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Morigaon district.
Assam government on Tuesday said the Centre’s guidelines for Unlock 2.0 from July 1, which were announced on Monday, will not override the state’s lockdown rules in force for 14 days in Kamrup (Metro) since June 29 and for an indefinite period in other urban centres of the state since June 28.
A research paper on Son Beel, endorsed by Hamburg University, Germany, has estimated a monetary value of the wetland ecosystem from a minimum of USD 88 per hectare a year to a maximum of USD 29,716 per hectare.
A day after Delhi government's decision to set up a plasma bank, the Assam government, too, is looking forward to establishing a similar facility for people scouting for convalescent plasma for their friends and family.
For the first time in Assam, families of two persons, who died of Covid-19 in the city, were seen at the cremation ground to pay their last respects on Monday. Standing by their side were health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his deputy Pijush Hazarika who made it a point to be present there to allay fears that the virus gets transmitted from lifeless bodies.