In a sensational incident, an elderly couple was found dead at their residence in Tezpur town in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Sunday. The bodies of Bryan Arij (80), originally an American who had acquired Indian citizenship, and his wife Asha Arij (65) were found lying dead in a pool of blood at their house, police […]

The COVID-19 recovery rate in Tripura has further improved to 96.46 percent as 31,246 people have recuperated from the disease so far. 48 new cases were detected in the past 24 hours, while 90 more patients have recovered from the infection. The total active cases in the state currently stand at 796. Meanwhile, three fatalities […]

Manipur Hills and Tribal Affairs Minister Vungzagin Valte inspected the proposed site of the newly sanctioned project, the Hills medical college at Churachandpur on Sunday. Valte inspected the proposed approached road and other related issues of the project. He was accompanied by Additional chief secretary, Additional Chief Engineer, Engineers, Architects, health Director, Deputy Commissioner Churachandpur, […]

The Supreme Court on Monday asked Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Assam governments to file status reports on the current COVID-19 situation in the respective states and preparedness to deal with surge of cases in the coming months. A Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan also pulled up Gujarat and Delhi over the worsening COVID-19 situation […]

The health condition of former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has deteriorated further on Monday morning and is in an extremely critical state. Doctors are doing everything they can and he needs divine intervention, stated Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The health minister along with his wife and two children visited the Gauhati Medical […]

G20 leaders announced on Sunday that India will host the summit of the high-profile grouping in 2023 — a year later than what was decided earlier. India was earlier slated to host the summit in 2022 with the Osaka declaration of the G20 stating last year that “we look forward to meeting again in Saudi […]

India’s coronavirus count surpassed the 91-lakh mark on Monday as 44,059 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours. The overall cases reached 91,39,866 including 4,43,486 active cases and 85,62,641 recoveries. With 511 new deaths, the death toll mounted to 1,33,738. The country reported less than 50,000 cases for the sixteenth day. The last […]

The health condition of former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi remained “very critical” on Sunday although he responded to a longer duration of dialysis, state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The Congress veteran’s health condition deteriorated on Saturday afternoon, following multi-organ failure and he became unconscious with difficulty in breathing. Sarma said the doctors […]

Senior Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Biswajit Daimary has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s official residence in Guwahati on Sunday. Daimary has left Rajya Sabha membership and the BPF to join the saffron party. Along with Biswajit Daimary, Tamulpur MLA and BPF leader Emmanuel […]

An anti-Bru agitation has taken a violent turn in Kanchanpur in North Tripura district, with at least 1 killed and several injured in clashes, forcing police to fire. A fire service personnel, as well as a civilian identified as Biswajit Deb Banna and Srikanta Das respectively, were killed in the clashes. The incident occurred after […]