Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday in his first visit to the national capital since assuming office last month. The Prime Minister’s Office shared a picture of their meeting. During the meeting, several issues of the state as well as various policies adopted by the government in the […]

US-based Google LLC has contended that India’s new IT rules for digital media are not applicable to its search engine, and urged the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to set aside its single judge order which applied them on the company while dealing with an issue related to removal of offending content from the internet. […]

Manipur reported its first casualty due to Black fungus on late Tuesday night. This comes after the state detected the first two cases of black fungus or mucormycosis on Tuesday in separate hospitals. As per sources, the deceased, a 46-year-old male from Imphal West was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at Shija hospital in Imphal. The […]

Indian Medical Association President Dr JA Jayalal on Wednesday expressed anguish over the incident in which a doctor was assaulted in Assam’s Hojai district and demanded that the Central Government should declare hospitals as a “protective zone”. “Indian Medical Association and the whole fraternity of the country are saddened and anguished to see the brutal […]

Heavy rainfall on Tuesday hampered operations to rescue at least five miners trapped for two days deep inside an illegal rat-hole coal pit in Meghalayas East Jaintia Hills district, officials said. The district administration has identified five miners four from Assam and one from Tripura who were trapped at the coal pit in the remote […]

The Manipur government has extended the closure of schools until further orders due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation, officials said on Tuesday. The state government had declared summer vacation in the schools from May 1 to May 31 to tackle the surge in coronavirus cases. Commissioner Education (Schools) T Ranjit in an order said, there […]

Tripura police on Tuesday night arrested two youths of Panisagar in North Tripura on charges of gang raping a minor girl last week. However, another prime accused of the crime is still on the run. The arrested individuals have been identified as Sanjoy Nath and Shubhrajit Sen. Meanwhile, police are continuing the search to nab […]

The Assam police in Hojai have arrested at least 24 miscreants in less than 24 hours into the gruesome assault case of a doctor named Seuj Kumar Senapati at a government Covid hospital in Lanka near Nagaon. According to sources, the doctor and some health staff were attacked after a critically ill Covid patient named […]

The Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) on Tuesday said that the anti-COVID drug 2DG is approved for emergency use as an adjunct therapy to the standard of care in the treatment of coronavirus patients in hospital settings. The DRDO said that anti-COVID drug 2DG can now be given to COVID-19 patients under the care […]

To arrest the surge in coronavirus cases, a random Covid-19 testing drive has been started in Arunachal Pradesh’s capital Itanagar to tackle the second wave of the pandemic, informed Mandip Perme, district medical officer, Itanagar. Within the lockdown period from June 1 to June 7, the authorities will conduct random tests on the people of […]