The number of COVID-19 cases continued to surge in Assam as the state neared the 5,000 mark on Wednesday. Assam reported the highest single-day rise so far with 4,826 new positive cases. The fresh cases have been detected out of 52,074 tests conducted in the last 24 hours. The overall positivity rate in the state […]

As the entire country is reeling under a crisis of medical oxygen amid spike in COVID-19 cases, the northeastern state of Nagaland has received three oxygen plants for Kohima, Dimapur and Mokokchung under the PM Cares Fund. According to the health department, Nagaland will be setting up 13 oxygen plants across all the districts. On Wednesday, Health Minister S […]

Indian women boxers including six-time world champion MC Mary Kom (51kg) and two other Olympic-bound boxers Simranjit Kaur (60kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) on Wednesday were named in the elite women national camp which is set to resume at the Army Sports Institute in Pune as part of boxers’ preparations for the 2021 Tokyo Games. […]

Principal Scientific Advisor to Centre K Vijay Raghavan on Wednesday said that the “third phase” of the COVID-19 is inevitable. Vijay Raghavan, while briefing the media personnel over the COVID-19 situation in the country said, “Variants are transmitted same as original strain. It does not have the properties of new kinds of transmission. It infects […]

Researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of sauropod dinosaurs dating back to about 100 million years from an area around West Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya. The yet-to-be-published findings were made during a recent field trip by researchers from the Geological Survey of India’s Palaeontology division in North-East. The GSI researchers noted that this is […]

Sikkim reported 221 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours pushing the tally to 8,919, a health department bulletin said on Wednesday. The COVID-19 death toll rose to 155 as four more persons succumbed to the disease, the bulletin said. Of the 221 new COVID-19 cases, East Sikkim district registered 171 cases followed by […]

In the wake of the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Meghalaya government has imposed complete lockdown in the East Khasi Hills district, informed Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Wednesday. The lockdown will come to force from 8 PM today and will remain applicable till 5 AM of May 10. Taking to Twitter, Conrad Sangma tweeted, […]

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the allocation of additional foodgrain to NFSA beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (Phase III) for a period of two months — May and June 2021. The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its ex-post facto approval for allocation of additional foodgrains under Pradhan […]

Mizoram Health minister Dr R Lalthangliana on Tuesday said the state has registered the second-highest COVID-19 infection rate in the Northeast after Assam. In a statement, the minister said the state now is in “critical” condition due to the spurt in COVID-19 cases coupled with facility crunch. “Mizoram now stands second in term of COVID-19 […]

Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched the COVID-19 vaccination drive for those within the age group of 18 to 44 years at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) on Wednesday. In the launch today, Covaxin doses were administered to youth with special needs. The drive will be conducted in full swing from May […]