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Assam: Covid positivity rate climbs to 3% amid spike in active cases

GUWAHATI: The Covid positivity rate in the state has gone up to 3% after daily tests were accelerated confirming 50 active cases for the first time in the last couple of months. The state had become totally free of positive cases in the first week of April this year.

The Times of India

Urban flood adds to Assam’s monsoon woes

Educational institutions in Guwahati closed till June 18

The Hindu

More landslides reported in Assam with heavy waterlogging in parts of Guwahati

The RMC has issued 'red alert' for Assam and Meghalaya after heavy rain flooded roads in several parts of Guwahati

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Four killed in landslips in Guwahati, city flooded

At least 54 people have lost their lives in rain-induced disasters across the northeast since April

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Tripura byelections: TMC announces star campaigners

GUWAHATI: All India Trinamool Congress on Monday released a list of its 27 star campaigners, which include party supremo and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, for the June 23 byelections to four Tripura assembly seats.

The Times of India

From IIT-Guwahati, a prosthetic leg that allows deep squatting, cross-legged sitting

Research said the prosthetic leg has been designed for Indian conditions to suit uneven terrain

The Hindu

Congress leaders arrested in Guwahati ahead of protest against ED summons to Rahul Gandhi

GUWAHATI: The police on Monday morning arrested several Congress leaders and workers in Guwahati while they were trying to take out a protest march against the summoning of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the National Herald case.

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Khelo India Youth Games: Ridhhi, Aditi Swami bag archery gold

In a repeat of last edition’s final, Haryana’s Riddhi fought back from 2-4 down to beat Tamanna 6-4 and avenge the loss in Guwahati

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Flood situation in Assam improves, nearly 70K still in distress

GUWAHATI: The flood situation in Assam improved on Friday with all major rivers of the state flowing below the danger-mark, even as nearly 70,000 people remain affected by the deluge across five districts and some new areas were inundated due to heavy rain, an official bulletin said.

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Job not regularised even after 35 years, Assam man seeks nod for euthanasia

Guwahati: A work charge employee of the Assam government, whose job has not been regularised even after 35 years, has written to President Ram Nath Kovind, the governor and chief justices of the Supreme Court and the Gauhati high court to allow him euthanasia on the date of his retirement…

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Supreme Court orders 1km eco-sensitive zone for protected forests

GUWAHATI: The Supreme Court on Friday directed that every protected forest should have a 1km eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) where no development projects will be allowed.

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Intense rain warning after monsoon covers entire North East

GUWAHATI: After hitting parts of northeast on Thursday, the southwest monsoon covered the entire region on Friday along with some parts of sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.

The Times of India

Guwahati Municipal Corporation: Fixing treatment plant glitch, water woes to go on in Assam

GUWAHATI: A glitch at the British-era water treatment plant situated at Satpukhuri has hit the Guwahati Municipal Corporation’s water supply for the last three days. The situation is likely to remain so for the next few days, adding to the water woes of the residents of a vast part of…

The Times of India

Rio urges Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to break deadlock in Naga talks

GUWAHATI: Nagaland’s Core Committee on Naga Political Issue (CCoNPI) headed by chief minister Neiphiu Rio has sought the support of Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, as the convener of the North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), to act as a catalyst in breaking the deadlock in the 25-year-old peace talks by…

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75,000 still hit by floods in four districts of Assam

GUWAHATI: The flood situation in Assam improved significantly on Thursday though nearly 75,000 people are still hit by the deluge in four districts, an official bulletin said.

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Himanta to expand his ministry next week

GUWAHATI: After months of speculation, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said he will expand his 13-month-old ministry next week. Speaking on the sidelines of a campaign rally for Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council polls, he said, "On the 9th of this month, you will see new ministers in the…

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Congress may shrink to 30-35 seats in 2024 Lok Sabha polls: Himanta Biswa Sarma

GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday claimed the Congress' tally in Lok Sabha may come down to 30-35 seats in 2024 and it could lose the tag of principal opposition party.

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Scooty for Karbi Anglong students: Assam CM

GUWAHATI: In poll-bound Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC), chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday announced he would gift a scooty to every student, boy or girl, who cleared the Class XII boards with a first division (60% marks or above). Earlier, scooties were given to only successful girl candidates.

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Want notified vending zones in Guwahati: Street hawkers to mayor

GUWAHATI: The All Assam Street Vendors’ Association has come to a confrontation with newly elected Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) mayor Mrigen Sarania after he ordered the traders to remove their stalls immediately prior to facing eviction.

The Times of India

Man wanted for duping Assam students held after 8-year hunt

GUWAHATI: Vimal Kumar Choudhury from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh played catch-me-if-you-can with police for eight years till his luck ran out on Tuesday night. Choudhury was wanted on charges of duping several medical aspirants of Assam.

The Hindu

From IIT Guwahati, a device to turn wastewater into energy

The device uses microbes to convert chemical energy in organic substrates into electrical energy

The Times of India

Monsoon to hit northeast this week

GUWAHATI: The southwest monsoon is all set to hit the northeast in the next three to four days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced on Sunday.

The Times of India

'Rohingya refugees' criminal tendencies may cause unrest'

GUWAHATI: Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen, while insisting on expediting mutual cooperation between the southeast Asian nations, raised concern that criminal tendencies among "frustrated" Rohingya refugees may give rise to extremism and unrest in the region.

The Times of India

Cross-border land, sea routes can open new world, says external affairs minister in Guwahati

GUWAHATI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar said if land connectivity through Myanmar and sea connectivity through Bangladesh become viable on a commercial scale, a world all the way to Vietnam and Philippines, from Haiphong to Hazira and from Manila to Mundra will open up, creating an east-west lateral with sweeping…

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Routes via Myanmar, Bangladesh could transform Asia: EAM Jaishankar

GUWAHATI: India can overcome geography and rewrite history "if only we get the policies and the economics right", foreign minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday while highlighting how land connectivity through Myanmar and sea connectivity through Bangladesh on a commercial scale could open up "a world all the way to…

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