India is facing an increasingly severe and intensive COVID-19 situation in some districts and the whole country is potentially at risk and all efforts to contain the virus should be taken, Dr VK Paul, Member (Health) of the NITI Aayog, said on Tuesday. “We are facing an increasingly severe and intensive situation in some districts […]

President Ram Nath Kovind has undergone a successful bypass surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in a tweet that he had spoken to Director AIIMS to enquire about President Kovind’s health. He congratulated doctors for a successful operation. “The President of India Ram […]

More than six crore eleven lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the country till now. The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has informed on Tuesday that over 5,82,000 doses have been administered to the beneficiaries in the last 24 hours despite yesterday being a holiday due to Holi festival. Meanwhile, the country’s […]

A total of 264 ‘crorepati’ candidates, comprising 27.90 percent of the final 946 contestants, are engaged in the battle of ballots in Assam for 126 assembly constituencies in three phases. The richest candidate in the arena is the United Peoples Party, Liberal (UPPL)s Kokrajhar West (ST) contestant Manaranjan Brahma, with total assets worth Rs 268 […]

The fate of Assam Ministers including Piyush Hazarika, Parimalsukla Baidya, Bhabesh Kalita and Deputy Speaker of State Assembly Aminul Haque Laskar will be decided in the second phase of Assembly polls on Thursday. A total of 345 candidates are in the fray in this phase. As many as 73,44,631 electorates are eligible to vote in […]

The Manipur government issued a circular to the Deputy Commissioners of districts bordering Myanmar not to open camps to provide food and shelter to refugees fleeing the neighbouring country after the coup but withdrew it three days later to avoid potential public anger. In the advisory issued to the DCs of Chandel, Tengoupal, Kamjong, Ukhrul […]

Five workers died in an accident while constructing a deep well in Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills district, police said on Monday. Two others have been rescued from the well at Mihmyntdu village on the outskirts of Jowai town, they said. A special rescue team reached the spot and recovered the bodies of five persons from […]

Assam Police recovered arms and ammunition including three AK 56, three AK 56 magazines and 157 rounds of bullets in the Gossaigaon area of Kokrajhar on Monday. It was ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kokrajhar that a huge cache of arms and ammunition has been recovered from here. He is scheduled to […]

India reported 56,211 fresh COVID-19 cases and 271 related deaths in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry informed on Tuesday morning. With this, the total number of cases and the death toll in the country has surged to 1,20,95,855 and 1,62,114 respectively. The country also saw 37,028 recoveries in the last 24 hours, […]

On the occasion of Holi, a 104-feet tall flag mast hoisting the national tricolor was inaugurated today at MG Marg in Gangtok by Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang in presence of Governor Ganga Prasad and a host of other dignitaries. Touted as the tallest monumental mast in Sikkim, the flag pole will reportedly be illuminated […]