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The Central Pollution Control Board has issued a guideline to have dedicated vehicles and bi-layered collection bags for medical waste of corona patients or those suffering from symptoms.The guideline...

Space scientist K. Radhakrishnan said “knowing” and “doing” are important but “being” what you are makes a difference in life.Speaking at the 21st convocation of IIT Guwahati here on Wedne...

Fatikcherra, a 101-year-old tea estate of West Tripura district, has produced white tea for the first time to give an impetus to the state’s tea industry.White tea is known to be one of the most del...

A team of engineers from the Integral Coach Factory in Tamil Nadu is expected to visit Calcutta this week to try and fix the problems plaguing the five new rakes of Metro Railway.The affected rakes ha...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee installed a bust of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar at Vidyasagar College on Tuesday, 28 days after a bust of the Bengal Renaissance icon was vandalised on the Bidhan Sarani c...

Hundreds of patients were denied treatment as the emergency ward and the out-patient department of NRS hospital remained shut on Tuesday as junior doctors went on a ceasework.Since morning, agitating ...

A Guwahati-based company, Mahalaxmi Group, has submitted an expression of interest to the liquidator for revival of Hindustan Paper Corporation (HPC).Sources said a meeting of the stakeholders’ cons...

A round-the-clock control room, quarantine centres and sanitization of long-distance buses are some of the measures the East Singhbhum district administration has initiated to counter the spread of th...

An Assembly panel will probe how the BJP-led government of Raghubar Das allotted the Rs 79.33 crore work to broaden and strengthen a road to a Chhattisgarh company, Agrawal Global Infratech, which had...

More than 100 hard coke factory owners have complained that the pollution control board has given them consent to operate (CTO) for one year despite many of them paying fees for five years.B.N. Singh,...