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Several bystanders recorded the incident on their phones. Guwahati: A police officer was suspended after a video of him assaulting a delivery agent in Assam’s Guwahati went viral on social media on Friday. The incident took place around 6:30 pm near the Jail Road traffic point in Fancy Bazar after the agent allegedly broke a…
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The car, traveling from Dibrugarh to Tinsukia, plunged into an under-construction culvert. Four people, including a five-year-old child, were killed and two were seriously injured when a car fell off an under-construction culvert in Assam’s Tinsukia on Tuesday. Six members of a family were travelling from Bihar to Tinsukia for a wedding when the accident…
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Officials alerted locals of the increasing attacks by elephants in the vicinity. A 63-year-old farmer died after he was attacked by a herd of elephants in Assam’s Boko district on Wednesday, officials said. The incident took place when the farmer, Warlington W Sangma, was guarding his paddy field from the elephants in Tangabari in Jongakhuli…
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Guwahati: Several protesters were detained by the police after a tense standoff at the Assam Medical College and Hospital campus on Tuesday. The situation escalated when the authorities used a JCB excavator to block access to a road, completely shutting down a gate near the campus. The move led to a confrontation between the police…
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The state forest team found some materials used for electrocutions. Guwahati: Bodies of two wild elephants were recovered in two different places under the West Kamrup Divisional Forest area. Villagers from Pakharapara and nearby areas under the Singra Range Office in Boko found the bodies in a paddy field and later informed the state forest…
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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Public Works Department will explore an alternative proposal. Guwahati: Protests to save trees – some of them over 200 years old – in an ecologically important area in Guwahati have borne fruit, with the Assam government stating that efforts will be made to protect them while constructing a…
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The prime accused in the online trading scam case, Deepankar Barman, was arrested by the Assam Police from Goa on Sunday, DGP GP Singh said. The arrest came after an intense cross-country search for two months. The multi-crore online trading scam in the state came to light in August when investors, who had put in…
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The incident has shocked the city Guwahati: A chilling incident has come to light in Assam’s Guwahati, where the skeletal remains of a decomposed body of an elderly woman were found inside a house. The body has been identified as Purnima Devi, 75. The police said it is suspected she died three months ago in…
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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Assam is one of the top five growing states New Delhi: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Assam is one of the top five growing states in India with 13.9 per cent gross state domestic product (GSDP) and 12.84 per cent in terms of per capita income in 2023-24….
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Jute, known as the golden fibre, is the second most important cash crop in India after cotton in terms of cultivation and usage. India is the largest producer of jute in the world. West Bengal, Assam, and Bihar are the major jute-growing States in the country, and raw jute farming and trade make up the…