Guwahati: The Janata Dal (United) has decided to contest at least 15 assembly constituencies of Arunachal Pradesh in the polls due on April 11, according to party’s National General Secretary Afaque Ahmad Khan on Friday. “We are giving party ticket to only capable candidates. Prominent among them include two sitting MLAs Techi Kaso, MLA of […]
Guwahati: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday inaugurated a 61-km long smart fencing between India and Bangladesh in Assam’s Dhubri district, saying that the entire India-Bangladesh border would gradually be fenced using smart technology. Called BOLD-QIT (Border Electronically Dominated QRT Interception Technique), this is the third smart fence project launched under the Comprehensive Integrated […]
Guwahati : Assam Parliamentary Affairs minister Chandra Mohan Patwary on Monday informed the state Assembly that 155 people have died till Monday after consuming spurious liquor in Golaghat and Jorhat districts of Assam. Over 160 people are admitted in different hospitals in the two districts. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday took cognizance […]
Guwahati | The death toll in the Assam hooch tragedy rose to 143 on Sunday after more people died in hospitals in Golaghat and Jorhat districts, authorities said. While 85 people (54 men, 31 women) died in Golaghat, 58 others (43 men, 15 women) died in Jorhat till Sunday evening. “A total of 85 people […]
Guwahati : The death toll in the Assam hooch tragedy has risen to 98, the state government said here on Saturday. Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said this in a WhatsApp message after visitingthe Golaghat Civil Hospital and Jorhat Medical College and Hospital (JMCH). Of the 272 admitted to the Jorhat Medical College and […]
Guwahati | The Assam hooch tragedy death toll has risen to 85, the state government said on here Saturday. Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who visited the Golaghat Civil Hospital and Jorhat Medical College and Hospital, said this in a whatsapp message circulated to the media. Of the 221 admitted to Jorhat Medical College […]
Guwahati : The death toll in the Assam hooch tragedy has increased to 80, with the death of two more people, authorities said on Saturday. Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday visited the Golaghat Civil Hospital where 35 people have died since Friday. The remaining 45 died at the Jorhat Medical College. According to […]
Guwahati : At least 25 persons, including 15 women, have died and over 40 others have taken ill after consuming spurious liquor at a tea garden in Assam’s Golaghat district, the police said on Friday. The incident took place on Thursday night at the Salmora tea estate in Golaghat, 300 km from here. “The death […]
Guwahati : At least 22 persons have died and over 30 others taken ill after consuming spurious liquor at a tea garden in Assam’s Golaghat district, police said on Friday. The incident took place on Thursday night at the Salmora tea estate in Golaghat, 300 km from the state capital. “There are 22 bodies at […]
Guwahati : A woman college teacher has gone missing since Sunday morning after being suspended by the college authorities for a Facebook post on the terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pulwama district that left 49 dead last Thursday, police said here on Monday. In her post, Papri Banerjee, who is […]
