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A woman collects water from a tap near a collapsed wall at an apartment building in Guwahati on April 28, 2021, after a strong earthquake hit Assam in northeastern India, damaging buildings, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. (AFP)

Series of earthquakes jolt Assam and most of the Northeast

The impact was felt in almost the entire Northeastern region, parts of West Bengal, Bhutan and Bangladesh

28 April 2021 3:01 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally in support of BJP alliance party candidates of United People Party Liberal (UPPL) ahead of the third phase of Assam Assembly Elections, at Laupara in Baksa district. (Photo: PTI)

PM Modi urges militants to join mainstream in Assam

Modi appealed to militants to lay down their arms and join the mainstream in order to build a peaceful and Aatmanirbhar...

4 April 2021 4:31 AM IST

It is significant that the Mizoram government had also issued guidelines directing officials to provide shelter to those coming from Myanmar after the violence. (Representational image: Twitter/@APRRN_)

Manipur lifts order to deny food, aid for Myanmar refugees

The situation along the international border with Myanmar in Manipur and Mizoram still remains very fluid

31 March 2021 8:30 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asserted that a fair and inclusive COVID-19 vaccine access strategy should have been in place by now. (PTI Photo)

Congress will never implement CAA if voted to power in Assam: Rahul

He also added, Assam needs a chief minister from their 'own people' who will listen to their issues and try to resolve...

14 Feb 2021 5:50 PM IST

Covid numbers shoot up in Karnataka. (PTI Photo)

Assam registers record 42 corona cases in a day

Two-month-old baby among victims, total jumps to 157

21 May 2020 12:32 PM IST

Passengers returning from other parts of India reach Tezpur in Assam. (PTI)

Double trouble in Assam: Panic at premier hospital, migrant workers...

Relatively less troubled, northeastern state finds its facilities stretched

8 May 2020 9:04 PM IST

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal stressed the need of proper implementation of all the government schemes so that benefits percolate down to all the genuine beneficiaries, (PTI Photo)

Disbursal of MGNREGA dues will reduce rural distress: Sonowal

Assam CM seeks corruption-free implementation of govt schemes

8 May 2020 9:49 AM IST

Multinational companies looking to move out of China should consider Assam, with its abundant natural resources. (PTI Photo)

Assam woos MNCs moving out of China

Tea industry loses Rs 600 crore due to lockdown.

7 May 2020 11:36 AM IST

Firefighters spray disinfectant near Nizamuddin mosque in Delhi. PTI Photo

Panic in Assam as 3 Covid positive Tablighis hold meet of 100

The three men, on their way back from Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi, had organised a religious congregation of nearly 100...

11 April 2020 11:10 AM IST

Cows are seen at a garbage dump that has been made out of bounds for rag pickers by the Guwahati district administration in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. (PTI)

Assam MLA held for remarks calling COVID 19 hospitals worse than...

DGP says MLAs charged with sowing distrust in the community

7 April 2020 11:13 AM IST

Residents standing at safe distances in a queue wait to collect free rice being distributed by the government during the nationwide lockdown imposed in wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Guwahati. PTI photo

117 Nizamuddin religious congregation returnees in Assam go into...

Total number of corona positive rises to five in Assam, all have history of Nizamuddin congregation visit

2 April 2020 11:33 AM IST

A security person stops a delivery man for checking during the nationwide lockdown, imposed in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Guwahati. PTI

5 covid cases in Assam after Tablighi Jamaat attendees test positive...

All the five patients had attended a congregation at Tablighi Jamaat Markaz in Delhi's Nizamuddin West earlier this...

1 April 2020 3:58 PM IST