Tezpur University (TU) and Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences (SSUHS) signed an MoU on Tuesday to enhance collaborative research, academic exchange, and capacity-building initiatives. The MoU was signed by TU Vice Chancellor Prof. Shambhu Nath Singh and SSUHS Vice…
A three-year-old girl with special needs, Ishika, from a Jorhat orphanage in Assam, was adopted by a childless Swedish couple on Tuesday. Ishika’s mother had placed her in the orphanage shortly after birth. The couple found her through international adoption…
In Darrang, a teenage girl's body was found with throat injuries after she went missing from her village under Mangaldai police station. The next day, her fiance, suspected by police, died by suicide near his village. The girl had gone…
Guwahati Police rescued two minor girls from a hotel in Paltan Bazar on Tuesday. The girls, from Odalbakra, fled their jobs as house help early that morning with a man named Shahjahan Ali. After their employers reported them missing, a…
In Lakhimpur, Assam, headmaster Koneshwar Borgohain allegedly killed Raju Dhanowar over an affair involving Borgohain's wife. Dhanowar's body was found in a well, appearing to have been dragged from Borgohain's backyard. Despite warnings from locals to end the affair, the…
Amid rising prices of essential items, Assam's government is expected to increase fees at state-run hospitals by 20% starting August 1, 2024. Gauhati Medical College and Hospital has received a notice from Dispur but has not finalized the new rates…
A Special Task Force (STF) team, led by Inspector Kapil Pathak, successfully conducted an operation in Jawahar Nagar, under Basistha Police Station. The operation resulted in the arrest of a drug peddler and the seizure of 32 vials of heroin,…
On Monday, the 2nd Division of Guwahati Municipal Corporation completed a special cleanliness campaign from Assam Engineering College Road to Milanpur Sursanga Road. The campaign, part of “Cleanliness Protection” and “Cleanliness for Yourself and Remove Diseases,” included road and sewer…
In a tragic man-animal conflict, 45-year-old Kamal Kalita was killed by a wild elephant at Deepor Beel, near Guwahati, on Monday night. Kalita, a laborer, was trampled to death in the Miki Para area. Forest officials sent his body to…
A gas cylinder explosion in Kankan Nagar, Dibrugarh, on Monday afternoon seriously injured Mihir and Bela Sarkar while they were cleaning their gas burner. The blast gutted their rented house, leaving them homeless. Both suffered severe burn injuries and were…