Silchar: Police arrested a retired teacher for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at a homeopathy clinic.The accused was arrested after the girl’s family lodged a complaint at the police station in Cachar district.The incident allegedly occurred on Sunday at a clinic where the accused practises homeopathy after retiring from teaching. Sources said the girl…
A 42-year-old tea garden worker sustained injuries to his shoulders, hand and leg Dibrugarh: A 42-year-old tea garden worker was injured in a leopard attack at Lakribam Tea Estate on Sunday night.The victim, identified as Nakul Goraik, was walking along a road inside the estate in Tingkhong, Dibrugarh, when the leopard pounced on him. He…
Dibrugarh: Three Kanwariyas from Dibrugarh drowned during a pilgrimage at Dhola in Tinsukia district on Sunday evening.Police identified the deceased as Bishal Shah (21) and Raj Shah (24) of Guardpara, and Pankaj Gupta (28) of Loharpatty.The three were part of a group that had begun a nearly 90 km pilgrimage from Dibrugarh three days earlier…
Minister Kaushik Rai inaugurates its newly installed advanced CT scan machine Silchar: Assam minister Kaushik Rai inspected Silchar Medical College and Hospital on Monday and inaugurated its newly installed advanced CT scan machine.Rai reviewed patient facilities, cleanliness and the hospital’s overall functioning. He also spoke with patients and their families about the services they received…
Tulika Chutia’s paper explores the use of transformer-based artificial intelligence architectures to improve natural language processing capabilities for Assamese Dibrugarh: Tulika Chutia, a researcher at Dibrugarh University, has won a best paper award at an international conference held at IIT-Patna.Chutia, a PhD scholar at Dibrugarh University Institute of Engineering and Technology (DUIET), received the award…
Guwahati: Five Army personnel remained missing for more than 48 hours after a flash flood swept away shelters at a camp near the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley district on Friday evening, officials said.While initially seven personnel had been washed away, two were rescued. “There’s still no information about the missing personnel till Sunday…
Silchar: A man was allegedly stabbed to death by his two brothers over an ancestral property in Sribhumi district on Sunday.The victim, Tajel Hossain, was attacked around 10 am at West Nayagram, a Bangladesh-border village under Nilambazar police station, police said. His brothers, Taj Uddin and Nizam Hossain, allegedly stabbed him following a long-standing property…
Meghalaya governor’s official residence is a 150-year-old heritage property spread across 30 acres Shillong: Visitors thronged Lok Bhavan in Shillong on Sunday, a day after its Independence Day opening.Meghalaya governor’s official residence is a 150-year-old heritage property spread across 30 acres near Ward’s Lake. Usually closed to the public, it opens on national days, when…
Guwahati: Bharatiya Kisan Sangh’s Dibrugarh district unit distributed paddy seedlings to flood-affected farmers in Sivasagar district, helping them restart cultivation after the floods.According to a press statement, farmers from Jamira, Tengakhat and Khowang in Dibrugarh prepared around 1,100 bundles of paddy seedlings for Sivasagar.The seedlings were distributed on Sunday in Mechagarh, a remote area badly…
Guwahati: Heavy rain triggered landslides at several locations in Guwahati, including Kharguli and Chandmari, on Saturday evening, prompting authorities to assess vulnerable hill slopes across the city.Officials said no casualty or damage to homes had been reported. Debris was removed soon after the landslides, said Kaustav Talukdar, project officer with the District Disaster Management Authority.“We…
