Shillong, May 20 (PTI): Meghalaya on Thursday registered its highest single-day spike of 1,183 new COVID-19 cases, which pushed the tally to 26,927, a senior official said. Ten more fatalities raised the toll t
Beijing, May 20 (PTI): China has completed the construction of a strategic highway through the Brahmaputra Canyon, stated to be the world's deepest, close to the Arunachal Pradesh border ahead of its plan t
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Heavy to very heavy Rainfall is very likely to take place on Thursday at isolated places in West Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghala
Guwahati, May 20 (IANS) The northeast recorded its first death due to mucormycosis, commonly known as 'black fungus' when a 27-year-old man died at a private hospital here after his recovery from Covid,
Guwahati, May 19 (PTI): Reviewing flood preparedness ahead of the rainy season in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday directed that relief items should immediately reach the areas expected to
Shillong, May 19 (PTI): Meghalaya recorded 872 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, pushing the tally to 25,744, a senior official said.
Twenty-four more fatalities raised the death toll to 379, Health Services
Agartala, May 19 (PTI): The Tripura government on Wednesday said that 26 per cent of the state''s population of around 40 lakh received either the first or both doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
The state has
Imphal, May 19 (PTI): The Manipur government has called for muting sirens of ambulances in the state in a bid to reduce anxiety and panic amid the COVID-19 gloom, officials said.
The state''s medical
Aizawl, May 19 (PTI): Mizoram on Wednesday reported 184 new COVID-19 cases, taking the state''s tally to 9,252, an official said.
Of the 184 fresh cases, 82 were confirmed through RT- PCR test, four
GUWAHATI, MAY 19 (IANS): In all 233 inmates of 16 of the total 31 jails in Assam are currently under treatment after they tested Covid-19 positive, a top prison official said.
According to Inspector General
Guwahati, May 19 (PTI): The Assam government on Wednesday said it will provide free power to all the new oxygen plants that are coming up in the state.
In a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Himanta
SILCHAR, MAY 19 (IANS): Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, corona curfew and heavy pre-monsoon downpour, tributes were paid on Wednesday to the 11 people who died in police firing on May 19, 1961 in Silchar during t
Imphal, May 18 (IANS): Authorities in Manipur have charged a journalist and a political activist, who were arrested on May 13 over their Facebook posts reportedly criticising the ruling BJP leaders, under the N
Guwahati, May 18 (IANS): While Assam is supplying oxygen to Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Nagaland, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday that his state would also provide 16 met
Shillong, May 18 (PTI): Meghalaya on Tuesday reported the highest single-day spike of 906 COVID-19 cases, pushing the tally to 24,872, a senior health department official said. The COVID-19 death toll in the st
Guwahati, May 18 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said the impact of the second wave of COVID- 19 has been "extremely severe" in the northeastern state for which medical infr
Gangtok, May 18 (PTI): Sikkim's COVID-19 tally surged to 11,689 as 209 more people tested positive for the virus while two more fatalities pushed the death toll to 212, a health department bulletin said on
Titabar (Assam), May 18 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said the unilateral ceasefire decision by the ULFA(I) will not result in immediate halt of operations by security forces, but v
Titabar (Assam), May 18 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday claimed that abducted ONGC employee Ritul Saikia has been "kept somewhere in Myanmar" by the proscribed ULFA (I).
COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths
Itanagar, May 18 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh recorded its highest single-day spike of 304 new COVID-19 cases, which pushed the tally to 22,106, while four more fatalities raised the tol