The Latest Breaking News from Guwahati

AHMEDABAD: Indian cricket's 'backbone', the Ranji Trophy, will make a much-anticipated return after two years amid the easing COVID-19 situation in the country, providing host of domestic cricketers an opportunity to make their name in red-ball cricket while giving veterans like Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara a final shot at…

MUMBAI: In the midst of the raging pandemic, the Tata Memorial Centre—the country’s premier cancer care centre—raised almost Rs 75 crore in the past two years to not only offer free treatment to all children under 18 years of age at its Parel hospital, but also for some treated at…

GUWAHATI: Assam Police on Thursday arrested two persons in connection with the murder of an elderly woman in Guwahati’s Kalapahar area. Her body was found on Monday.

GUWAHATI: A miniscule 7% of nearly 500 Manipuri families residing in Manipuri Rajbari area, popularly known as Manipuri basti, who had migrated to the city in the last few years, plan to go to Manipur to cast their votes in the assembly elections in that state.

GUWAHATI: Abandoned by his father and raised by his mother who runs a tea stall, a boy from Patacharkuchi in Assam’s Bajali district seat has secured a seat in undergraduate course at AIIMS, New Delhi, this year by cracking NEET in his first attempt.

GUWAHATI: The slow pace of vaccination of children in Assam may lead to non-compliance of the February 28 deadline set by the government for administering both doses of Covid-19 vaccine.

GUWAHATI: Assam police crime branch busted a racket involved in betel nut smuggling from Myanmar via Mizoram, Meghalaya and Assam to other parts of the country, and arrested the mastermind from Guwahati on Monday.

GUWAHATI: Assam has completed the technical evaluation of bids for installation of solid waste processing plant in Guwahati and is examining its viability. This was informed by the state government through an affidavit before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently.

If you ask six-year-old Ratul (name changed on request) about his favourite pastime activity, the boy has a ready answer. “I just love playing kabaddi,” he says with enthusiasm. The reason, according to him, is simple and straight. “Nobody can beat me in this game,” declares the little man with…

The Meghalaya Police has been caught on the wrong foot for trying to train its guns on the media. On August 13, it launched an attack on the media by serving a notice to Northeast Now, a Guwahati-based news portal, to remove a news report related to former state chief…