More than 50 people were taken ill and treated for suspected food poisoning after having ‘prasad’, comprising gram and fruits, at a religious function in Assam’s Charaideo district, a police official said on Monday. A villager organised the event at his house and distributed ‘prasad’ among the neighbouring households on
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Mizoram police will not initiate legal proceedings against their Assam counterparts in a case of alleged theft of construction material, a senior official said on Monday, a day after the things were handed back. Kolasib district Superintendent of Police Vanlalfaka Ralte said the construction material meant for a bridge was
Assam was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 4 on Monday afternoon, an official bulletin said. As per the National Center for Seismology, the quake was recorded at 1.13 pm, having its epicentre at Kokrajhar in west Assam at a depth of 10 km. The place of occurrence was 90
Another person was arrested in Assam for allegedly supporting the Taliban”s takeover of Afghanistan on social media, taking the total number of such apprehensions in the state to 16, police said on Monday. The man, who worked in a tyre shop in Jorabat area of Guwahati, was arrested for
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued notices to the Centre, Assam and Mizoram over the deadly border clash between the two Northeastern states in July, stating that “grave violation of human rights” took place. Acting on a complaint by one Md Injamul Haque of Assam, the NHRC on