Guwahati: Union Health Minister J P Nadda today said the NDA government had already started the process of establishing 17 new AIIMS and 20 cancer institutes in the country.Once fully functional, more than 16,300 additional
Guwahati/Itanagar: In a major development Guwahati High Court today gave an order to stays all the proceedings of present Arunachal Assembly session till 2nd February . The decision can be said to be a big
Guwahati: Two low intensity blasts rocked the busy commercial Fancy Bazaar area here this afternoon, injuring two persons.The blasts took place within seconds of each other around 3.30 p.m., creating panic in the area, police
Guwahati: Runaway ULFA leader Anup Chetia alias Golap Baruah, extradited from Bangladesh, was on Wednesday presented before a Guwahati court, which remanded him in five-day CBI custody.Chetia, who was lodged in a Bangladesh jail ever
Guwahati: A final-year student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) was on Friday found dead near his hostel, police said.Security guards at the institute found the body near the IIT-G's Brahmaputra Hostel. The staff
Guwahati: All non-Muslim immigrants should be given Indian citizenship with voting rights while those from the Muslim religion can "slog and stay" in the country, Assam Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya today said."Hindus have the birth
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam worsened today following incessant rainfall in the upper catchment areas of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, affecting more than three lakh people in 13 districts and hit road communication in several places. The
New Delhi: India today airlifted several tonnes of rice, noodles and medicines to Myanmar which has been severely affected by cyclone Komen.12 regions and states of Myanmar have been severely hit by the cyclone, which
Panaji: Goa government today suspended project director A Wachasunder who was heading the Water augmentation and sewerage line project which has run into controversy over bribery charges."I have directed that Wachasunder be placed under
Guwahati: A hardcore NDFB(S) militant was arrested and a cache of arms and ammunition was recovered yesterday by a joint team of Assam Police, Army and CRPF in Kokrajhar district of Assam."Based on an input
Washington: A New Jersey-based construction management firm has been charged with bribing Indian officials several crores of rupees to win two major water developmental projects in Goa and in Guwahati.The bribery of USD 976,630 for
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today inaugurated the Guwahati-Dhaka bus service from the city.Speaking on the occasion, Gogoi said a new chapter in India-Bangladesh relations has begun with the commencement of the bus service
Guwahati: Simmering tension prevailed in Assam after a tantrik sacrificed a five-year-old boy to appease God and was later lynched by an irate mob, police said on Friday.The incident took place at Tarajuli tea estate
Guwahati: The central government's delinking of several centrally-sponsored schemes and changing the funding pattern in some of them has cost Assam over Rs.7,000 crore in the 2015-16 fiscal, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday.Gogoi
Rangia: Eight persons, including a woman and a child, were killed and another man was seriously injured in a road accident in Kamrup district of Assam, police said today.The car in which seven persons were
Guwahati: The FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), North East Chapter in association with the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has organised a mobilisation exercise of relief materials for the earthquake survivors of Nepal.Essential items like rice, dal,
Guwahati and Srinagar are the two Indian cities at highest risk of being devastated by an earthquake, with 36 other cities in areas prone to earthquakes, according to government data.Guwahati and Srinagar fall in what
Tawang: India may again approach Bhutan for an early clearance to a crucial road passing through its territory that connects strategically important Tawang with Guwahati as the neighbouring country has put on hold the project
Guwahati: At least 77 people were killed and 60 others injured in witch-hunting incidents in Assam since 2010, the Assembly was informed today.In a written reply to a query by BJP MLA Prasanta Phukan, Parliamentary
New Delhi: There was an uproar in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday over comments by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in Assam where he reportedly said mosques are not religious places."Secularism is the biggest strength of
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