Guwahati: Strengthening the city’s solid waste management infrastructure, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has inaugurated a new refuse transfer station and material recovery facility at Panjabari. Officials said the initiative will significantly improve waste collection, segregation and transportation across the city.The project, built at a cost of Rs 7 crore, includes a refuse transfer station…
Guwahati: In a discovery that opens a window into the region’s ancient tropical past, scientists have found a 24-million-year-old fossil of the Kewra plant (Pandanus) in Assam’s Tinsukia district. The rare fossil traces how this plant lineage reached India millions of years ago and also highlights Assam’s role as a refuge for species that vanished…
Imphal: Unidentified miscreants blew up a PMGSY Bailey bridge over the Namban Lok river in Manipur’s Kamjong district, snapping the only road link between Chatric village and nearby areas and the district headquarters, local sources said.The incident occurred late on Tuesday. Police said they received information about the blast around 9.30 am on Wednesday.The bridge,…
Dhubri: Assam CM’s vigilance cell has registered a case into the alleged embezzlement of several crores of rupees from the Dhubri zila parishad between 2021 and 2025.A team of vigilance officials arrived in Dhubri on Tuesday evening and has since been examining official records, scrutinising financial documents and questioning officials and employees suspected of involvement…
Guwahati: Around 2,100 illegal foreign nationals have been deported, sent back or expelled from Assam over the past decade, the state govt informed the assembly on Wednesday. Of them, 2,023 were sent to Bangladesh, while others were repatriated to Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine and a few African countries.Replying to a question from Congress MLA Abdur…
Guwahati: More than 82,750 hectares of Assam’s land remains under the encroachment of four neighbouring northeastern states, the Assam govt informed the assembly on Wednesday. The disputed area is larger than the size of several UTs, including that of Chandigarh.Replying in the House to a question by Congress MLA Wazed Ali Choudhury, state border protection…
Guwahati: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday visited the flood-ravaged districts in upper Assam to assess the situation on the ground and review the impact of the unprecedented flooding.Interacting with affected residents, the chief minister assured them of all possible govt support for rehabilitation and restoration of livelihoods. He said the scale of flooding in…
Guwahati: At least 25 people have died and 100 reported missing in the last 24 hours, authorities said early on Wednesday, as Assam’s flood situation turned catastrophic with eight lakh people affected across 16 districts, raising the overall toll this monsoon season to 35.Three Assam districts bordering Nagaland — Sivasagar, Charaideo and Jorhat — bore…
Imphal/Aizawl: Protests over alleged examination irregularities and police action against demonstrators in Delhi were held in Manipur and Mizoram, with political parties and students demanding accountability from the Centre.In Imphal, the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee led by president and former chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh marched from Congress Bhawan towards Lok Bhavan on Wednesday to…
Itanagar: In a push to strengthen community-oriented policing and expand public outreach, a police outpost and community library, the ‘Sangam Centre’, was inaugurated at Dem in Deed Circle of Arunachal Pradesh’s Keyi Panyor district on Tuesday, officials said.The integrated facility was formally inaugurated by Keyi Panyor deputy commissioner Shweta Nagarkoti Mehta in the presence of…
