Guwahati: Assam chief secretary Ravi Kota on Monday held a comprehensive review after torrential rain triggered artificial floods in Guwahati. He asked the Guwahati Municipal Corporation, Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority and the Water Resources Department to stay on 24×7 operational alert to tackle waterlogging in vulnerable areas of the city.Considering past incidents, including last year’s…
Silchar: A huge cache of narcotics, arms and cash was recovered from a forest village in Assam’s Cachar district following a joint operation by Cachar Police and Assam Rifles, officials said.Acting on specific inputs, the joint team carried out a search operation at a house in Jurkhal forest village on Sunday. The village, under Kachudaram…
Dibrugarh: A male leopard that had been terrorising residents and killing livestock at the Daimukhia Tea Estate in Tinsukia district’s Doomdooma was captured in an iron cage on Monday morning, bringing relief to the local community after days of fear and anxiety.The forest department had placed the iron cage at a strategic location within the…
Silchar: Police seized 3,600 bottles of banned cough syrup worth about ₹36 lakh from a courier company’s container truck at Churaibari in Sribhumi district on Sunday night, officials said.Acting on specific intelligence inputs, a team from Churaibari police station intercepted a six-wheeled container truck at the Assam-Tripura border check gate after it arrived from Delhi…
Guwahati: Yashraj Singh of Guwahati topped the northeast in JEE Main 2026 with a 99.98 NTA Score, narrowly missing a perfect 100, after final results were declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday. He also emerged as Assam’s state topper.Tripura topper Adriraj Saha scored 99.86, followed by Arunachal Pradesh’s Aiman Tanish with 99.73,…
Guwahati: Parents of sound engineer Nilotpal Das and his businessman friend Abhijeet Nath, who were lynched in 2018 in Karbi Anglong by a mob suspecting them as child lifters, expressed their disappointment over the outcome of the legal battle. They said more than half of the accused have been acquitted by the trial court on…
Guwahati:Three persons, including a couple who were engaged, drowned in the Pagladia River in Assam’s Baksa district near the Bhutan border on Sunday evening while bathing, officials said. The bodies were recovered later the same evening and the deaths were confirmed.Two of the victims were identified as Pinki Das, 25, and her fiancé Dibojyoti Darjee,…
Guwahati experienced an extraordinary deluge this April, breaking a 17-year-old record by receiving 117.4 mm of rain within just 24 hours. The tumultuous thunderstorms commencing Sunday night led to severe urban flooding, paralyzing daily activities throughout the city. Multiple meteorological phenomena fueled this fierce rainfall, with forecasts indicating more adverse weather is on the horizon…
Agartala: BJP’s seat tally in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC) elections fell to four from nine in 2021, but the party said it has expanded its footprint in the state’s hill areas on the back of a higher vote share among tribal voters.Tinku Roy, a senior state minister and BJP’s ADC election…
In an unexpected turn of events, a relentless wave of rainfall drenched Guwahati, leading to widespread flooding in neighborhoods like Hatigaon and Rukminigaon. With roads submerged, residents found themselves cut off from their homes, while the price of rickshaw rides soared. Emergency services scrambled to use rubber boats for evacuations. Guwahati: The intense rainfall from…
