Dispur: Three more people lost their lives in flood-related incidents in Assam on Friday, taking the death toll to 96 in the state. The State Disaster Management Authority said that the death toll due to floods has risen to 96. According to the flood report by the ASDMA on Friday,
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GUWAHATI: The Assam government on Saturday has decided to reduce the home quarantine period for COVID-19 patients even as cases are on the rise. Informing about the decision, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that after discharge from hospital, a COVID patients will be required to stay in home
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday led the first Muslim prayers attended by thousands in Hagia Sophia since the controversial reconversion of the iconic Istanbul cathedral into a mosque. The highest administrative court revoked the sixth-century monument’s status as a museum on July 10 and Erdogan then ordered the
The Assam government will release 376 prisoners in the next few days to decongest jails across the state after 535 inmates tested positive for COVID-19, an official said on Thursday. Of the 376 prisoners to be released, 111 are presently lodged in Guwahati Central Jail, he said. The rest of
Pharmaceutical firm Cipla is all set to launch Favipiravir, developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in a cost-effective process, for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, according to an official statement on Thursday. An off-patent anti-viral drug, Favipiravir, originally discovered by Fuji Pharma in Japan, has shown