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Mahika Sharma helps Assam flood victims.

After Akshay Kumar, Mahika Sharma gives financial help to victims of Assam flood

She has also requested the government to first invest money to solve flood issue and then to make investment on Assam tourism.

23 Jul 2019 9:38 AM

Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam. (Photo: ANI)

Assam: Floodwater enters Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, animals take refuge in highlands

A total of 57 animals were rescued out of which four died on arrival at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC).

21 Jul 2019 8:12 PM

A large scale flood relief operation by the Indian Army troops is underway in flood-hit areas of lower Assam since 11 June after the torrential rain hit the region. (Photo: ANI)

Assam floods: Large scale relief operation by Indian Army underway

In spite of incessant heavy rains, rescue columns are operating round the clock in the flood-affected areas.

20 Jul 2019 9:21 AM

The epicenter of the quake was located at a depth of 10 km at East Kameng district in Arunachal Pradesh, the Met Office website stated. (Photo: File)

5.6-magnitude earthquake jolts Arunachal Pradesh, other NE states

No casualties have been reported so far, officials said, adding that more details are awaited.

19 Jul 2019 4:13 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and took stock of the flood situation in the state, where the deluge has claimed 11 lives this year while millions are affected, officials said. (Photo: File)

PM speaks to Assam CM, takes stock of flood situation

On Saturday, the chief minister had briefed Home Minister Amit Shah about the flood situation in Assam.

15 Jul 2019 3:54 PM

Assam is facing severe floods in which three people have reportedly died. (Photo: Representative image)

Assam: Rise in water level of Brahmaputra, may cross danger mark

More than two lakh people have been affected in 11 districts which have been hit by the floods.

11 Jul 2019 9:58 PM

The police had to open fire for getting the situation under control. The head of the family Jadab Sahariya and his son Pulkesh Sahariya got injured in the fire. The latter succumbed to his injuries in the Guwahati Medical College. (Photo: ANI)

Child rescued from being sacrificed by own family in Assam

A highly educated family on the advice of a fake seer tried to sacrifice a child after performing naked prayers in their home's temple.

07 Jul 2019 8:46 PM

In 2014 poachers killed 27 rhinos inside the park followed by 16 in 2015, but a sharp increase in the number of rangers – there are now 700 – helped reduce this to seven in 2017 and six in 2018. (Photo: AFP)

Vulnerable to extinction: Kaziranga rangers save Indian rhinos

Hell in high water: Braving the monsoon to save India's rhinos.

05 Jul 2019 10:11 AM

Forty-five people have died till July 3 since the outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis in Assam, the National Health Mission said Thursday. (Photo: Representational Image/File)

45 Japanese Encephalitis deaths reported in Assam

Most of upper Assam districts, including Jorhat, Golaghat, Dibrugarh, and lower Assam district have been affected by mosquito-borne disease.

04 Jul 2019 6:56 PM

JE is vector-borne encephalitis transmitted by Culex groups of mosquitoes. (Photo: Representational image)

Assam reports 28 encaphalitis deaths

'The government is keeping a check over the state of AES in Assam and is taking all the necessary measures required to prevent it he added.

02 Jul 2019 5:21 PM

The Congress on Monday hit out at the Modi government over the spread of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in Assam and hoped that the Centre rises from its 'deep slumber' to prevent any epidemic. (Photo: File)

Hope Modi govt rises from deep slumber: Cong on Encephalitis deaths in Assam

Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) has reached Assam as 10 people have lost their lives, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said.

01 Jul 2019 1:34 PM

Stock of arms seized from car in Assam

The car was coming from Dibrugarh in neighbouring Nagaland and its three occupants were arrested.

27 Jun 2019 8:56 PM

The new additional draft list contains only the names of those people who had figured in the ‘Complete Draft NRC’ published on July 30, 2018; but were subsequently found ineligible for inclusion for various reasons in the final NRC to be published on July 31 this year. (Photo: FIle)

1 lakh more people excluded from Assam’s NRC, final list on July 31

The National Register of Citizens is being updated to pick out illegal foreigners in the state.

26 Jun 2019 11:52 AM

As heavy rainfall in Bhutan leads to rise in water levels of Pagladia and Borolia rivers washing away a bridge in Tamulpur & obstructing Tamulpur's connection to Baksa District Headquarters. (Photo: ANI)

Rains in Bhutan affects Assam's Tamulpur, bridge washes away

This has left the locals in the region in great difficulty as people are using bamboo or banana rafts to cross the water.

24 Jun 2019 11:26 AM

The NRC, which was first prepared in 1951, is being updated in Assam in an effort to weed out illegal immigrants. The first draft released last year had excluded names of 40 lakh applicants. (Photo: ANI)

Two officials caught taking bribe to include name in NRC list

Both the officials were arrested following a complaint by Kajari Ghosh Dutta, a resident of Ananda Nagar, over a bribe demand of Rs 10,000.

14 Jun 2019 4:19 PM

Chief Minister of Assam, Sabanand Sonwal with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday in New Delhi. (Photo: Twitter | @PMOIndia)

PM Modi meets governors of 3 states, Assam CM

On May 18, PM met governors of Karnataka, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Chief Minister of Sikkim, Prem Singh Tamang.

12 Jun 2019 2:09 PM

The three persons who were taken into custody are residents of Arunachal Pradesh. (Photo: ANI)

3 arrested for possessing tiger hide, teeth, bones in Dhemaji district of Assam

After getting tip off, joint operation was launched by Jonai Police, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and District Forest Department on Sunday.

10 Jun 2019 10:21 AM

The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. (Photo: ANI)

Assam: Fire breaks out in Silchar-Trivandrum Express

No casualty has been reported yet and the fire tenders have reached the spot immediately to douse the flames.

09 Jun 2019 1:49 PM

Gaurav Gogoi, the sitting Congress MP in Kaliabor constituency and son of former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, won by a huge margin of 2,09,994 votes against Moni Madhab Mahanta of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), an ally of the ruling BJP. (Photo: Twitter I Gaurav Gogoi)

17th Lok Sabha, Assam; BJP bags seven LS seats, Cong wins three, AIUDF one

BJP won 7 seats and lead in 3 others, Congress bagged 3 and the AIUDF 1 out of a total of 14 seats of Assam

24 May 2019 12:26 PM

Guwahati Police Commissioner Deepak Kumar. (ANI)

3 more arrested in Guwahati grenade blast

The arrested persons include former and current members of ULFA said, Kumar.

19 May 2019 9:37 AM

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