The ruling BJP on Wednesday named Bhubaneswar Kalita as its Rajya Sabha candidate, six months after the former Congress leader resigned from the Upper House in protest against the party’s stand on t...

Altogether 391 students from Assam, who have been stranded at Kota in Rajasthan because of the lockdown, were evacuated by the Assam government on Friday and started their homeward journey around 2pm....

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday warned that he would have to declare the Sarusajai stadium quarantine centre a “temporary jail” if the inmates insist on leaving without a do...

The Assam government said it would release the salary of the state government employees for the month of April, but is still unsure about the salaries in May. Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarm...

Assam has not registered any fresh Covid-19 case for over 48 hours but the state government has not lowered its guard. From imposing penalty for spitting or urinating in public places to maintaining s...

Citizens have been donating generously to Dispur’s Assam Arogya Nidhi kitty to help the state government fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Till Friday evening, over 45,367 people have donated almost Rs 1...

The Dhubri administration has declared four containment zones, house-to-house visits by medical teams daily and sanitising key localities, after four persons were detected Covid-19 positive. The admin...

Four more recovered Covid-19 patients were released from Golaghat civil hospital in Assam on Friday. With this, of the 34 positive cases recorded in the state so far, nine have been released while one...

The Union health ministry on Wednesday listed 170 districts nationwide as “hotspots” for Covid-19 that can earn the infection-free tag if they report no new cases for 28 days.Among the 170 distric...

The health department has sent swab samples of at least 10 persons from Darrang district for tests after they were found to have attended the religious function at the city’s Athgaon Kabarstan Masji...