Guwahati: The city’s plastic crackdown has yielded 29,620 kg of banned single-use plastic.Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), in collaboration with Pollution Control Board, seized the material during joint enforcement drives across the city.GMC Mayor Mrigen Sarania said it would be handed over to authorised facilities for recycling and reuse, keeping it out of landfills, drains and…
Guwahati: Six people died after a traveller vehicle collided with a truck in Sonapur on Sunday night, police said.The bodies were taken to Sonapur Civil Hospital, while police began a preliminary investigation, said traffic ADCP Shafeequl Hussain.“Police from Sonapur police station have arrived at the spot and are investigating the matter,” Hussain said.He said the…
Rescue operations underway in the aftermath of flash floods in Nuwakot district, Nepal Guwahati: Eight Assam residents rescued from flood-hit Nepal are expected to return home by Monday, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday.Sarma said the group was expected to cross the India-Nepal border on Sunday evening. Arrangements had been made to fly them…
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Guwahati: Assam Cabinet has approved a Rs 50,000-crore package for capital-intensive projects over the next five years, with a focus on primary healthcare, schools, Anganwadi centres, housing for tea garden workers, roads, power networks and anti-flood embankments across the state, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday.The investment plan, under…
Floodwaters inundate a residential area after flash floods at Belkotgadhi in Nuwakot, Nepal Guwahati: The devastating floods in Nepal have left a family in Assam’s Tezpur anxiously awaiting news of their son-in-law, Deepak Kharel, a Nepalese citizen, who has remained missing since the disaster struck.Deepak married Mallika, the younger daughter of Soruram and Dilmaya Sharma…
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said the facility would expand Assam’s capacity to treat cancer patients from the state and across the country Guwahati: Assam will set up a Rs 600-crore Proton Beam Therapy Centre at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), joining an elite global group of cancer-care centres.The state cabinet approved the project…
Aizawl: Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) vice-president Zodintluanga Ralte on Sunday slammed CM Lalduhoma stating that the latter always changed his political narratives to his advantage.The 63-year-old Congress veteran said the CM’s statements on various issues, have repeatedly contradicted his earlier positions. The former minister has claimed that a growing desire for a Congress govt…
Guwahati: Two 15-year-old students presented a diplomatic proposal in Bangkok ahead of the 80th anniversary of Thailand-India diplomatic relations.Neeraj Sarmah and Ankit Mandal of St Vivekananda English Academy won the trip after topping the 12th Namaste Thailand Quiz 2026, held in May at Guwahati’s Srimanta Sankardev International Convention Centre.At Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they…
The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) has become a key rescue and rehabilitation facility, treating injured, orphaned and displaced animals Guwahati: The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) has rescued over 10,000 wild animals in 25 years, with nearly 68% rehabilitated and released into the wild.Established on Aug 28, 2002, at Panbari…
Shillong: Four armed men suspected to be members of an inter-state gang of dacoits were killed during an encounter with Meghalaya Police’s anti-terrorism squad (ATS) at Songsak in East Garo Hills early Sunday.The incident took place on the Songsak-Dakal road around 4am after the four allegedly opened fire from inside a vehicle at police personnel,…
