A youth from Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district has been distributing food and offering shelter to the homeless and those living on the footpath in Guwahati for the past two months.Tultul Kachhari, who...

“Lockdown” is not a new word for them. For the last 18 years, the residents of border village Tengapani in Tinsukia district of Upper Assam have to go through lockdown from June to September every...

Efforts are under way to ensure that a remote forest village in Assam becomes the first such habitation where the entire population wears masks.The student volunteers of the National Service Scheme (N...

A two-minute film on the hazards of spitting in public places amid the coronavirus pandemic, which was shared by Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu recently on his Facebook page, has receive...

The people in the vicinity call her “karma yoddha (work warrior)” and the life of Navaneeta Neog Barua is an inspiration for hundreds of women who aim at self-reliance to beat poverty.Navaneeta, a...

Pig farmers’ miseries continue in parts of Assam and eastern Arunachal Pradesh following the sudden upsurge in pig deaths amid the nationwide lockdown.“We heard about spread of African swine fever...

Several reports of attacks on policemen on duty and assault by police on violators of law during the lockdown period in Assam are raising deep concerns among top police officials and intellectuals acr...

When white-robed Hage Rinya, 21, appeared on Facebook and web channels on Thursday, thousands listened to her in speechless wonder as though an angel had graced the virtual world by her presence.Soft-...

Several deaths have been reported in the Northeast following consumption of poisonous wild mushrooms by poverty-stricken families as an alternative to vegetables which they could ill-afford during the...

The residents of Tinsukia district urged Assam police on Monday to take strong measures to curb the drug menace across the state.Different organisations and students on Monday while praising the polic...