Guwahati: The father of doctor Prayash Singhal has accused a woman and her husband of blackmailing his son.Singhal, an ICU physician, was found dead in the ICU of a private hospital in Guwahati on Wednesday in a case that is suspected by police to be a suicide.His father, Sanjeev Singhal, filed a complaint with Bhangagarh…
Guwahati: IAS officer Devasish Sharma has taken voluntary retirement after 34 years in govt service to make his debut in politics.Sharma, who had a few months of service left, took voluntary retirement as the district commissioner of Nagaon. He assumed charge in June last year.Sharma told TOI that the decision was “practical” and motivated by…
Education minister Ranoj Pegu at the MoU-singing event Guwahati: Assam has partnered with six organisations to use AI for teacher training, literacy assessment and personalised school education.The MoUs were signed between Samagra Shiksha, Assam, and Google AI; IIT Madras – Bodhan AI; LEHS – Wadhwani AI; Educate Girls; EkStep – AXL; and Canva Education. The…
Guwahati: The unique bond that teachers and students share is drawing many govt school teachers back to classrooms on Teachers’ Day, despite prolonged census duty.Census duty has kept many govt school teachers across Assam away from their classrooms since last month. However, several are expected to return on Saturday, responding to appeals from school authorities…
Jorhat: In most homes, parents are a child’s first teachers. But in the villages around Adarsha Tribal Higher Secondary School in Jorhat district, the lesson is taking an unexpected turn — children are returning home from school to teach their mothers.They are helping them read and write, use mobile phones, make UPI payments, access online…
Champhai: In a border town in Mizoram, the fear of ‘666’ — the biblical “Number of the Beast”— has kept an entire community away from the state’s systems of identity. For them, voter registration, Aadhaar cards, bank accounts and other official documents are not routine paperwork; they risk being seen with a mark forbidden by…
Guwahati: A special NDPS court in Guwahati has sentenced three men to 15 years’ rigorous imprisonment for possessing more than 2 kg of methamphetamine tablets.The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said the accused—Shakil Khan of Thoubal district and Yahiya Khan of Imphal East district in Manipur, and Mithilesh Kumar of Bhagalpur district in Bihar—were arrested after…
Silchar/Aizawl: Heavy rain triggered severe soil erosion beneath the Katakhal-Bairabi railway line on Thursday evening, damaging nearly 70 metres of track and disrupting Mizoram’s only rail link with the rest of the country.The affected stretch lies between Jamira in Assam and Bairabi in Mizoram. The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has cancelled or short-terminated several trains,…
The museum has missed its scheduled July 1 inauguration The museum has missed its scheduled July 1 inauguration The museum has missed its scheduled July 1 inauguration The museum has missed its scheduled July 1 inauguration The museum has missed its scheduled July 1 inauguration The museum has missed its scheduled July 1 inauguration The…
Guwahati: Parikshit Sarma, one of 11 Assamese NRIs in Singapore summoned by Assam Police in connection with singer Zubeen Garg’s death, appeared before a fast-track court on Wednesday and Thursday to record his statement in the case.The fast-track court, constituted in March, framed charges against seven accused in May. The accused are North East India…
