Watch: Rescuers recover a body of a trapped miner in Assam Army divers on Wednesday retrieved the body of a Nepali miner, one of the nine miners who have been trapped inside a flooded coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district for more than 48 hours. Despite efforts by multiple rescue agencies, divers, and a […]
Guwahati has reported its first confirmed case of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), with a 75-year-old woman being treated at Apollo Hospitals. The patient is currently stable and recovering without requiring additional respiratory support. Meanwhile, her 80-year-old husband, who is experiencing similar symptoms, is receiving intermittent oxygen support. His sample is being tested for the virus. Earlier, […]
The Indian Navy team is fully equipped and carrying specialised equipment such as deep diving gears and underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) for search and rescue operations in Assam’s Umrangso. One dead body was recovered and eight miners continue to be trapped in the inundated coal mine at 3 Kilo, Umrangso, in Dima Hasao. The […]
Guwahati, January 21, 2025: Northeast, with nearly 16% growth in direct selling, is poised to fly higher as all eight sister states registered a leap jump in sales, adding ₹ 255 crore from the previous year to cross ₹1854 crore in the year 2022-23, the Indian Direct Selling Association disclosed here in the 2nd Northeast […]
The residents of a Nagaland village allegedly detained a dozen Assam police personnel after they “inadvertently” crossed the inter-State border in pursuit of a car lifter on Tuesday (January 8, 2024) night. The incident happened at Yajang village in Nagaland’s Mokokchung district. Shwetank Mishra, the Superintendent of Police (SP) of eastern Assam’s Jorhat district, told […]
Rescue operations by multiple state and central agencies continued for the fourth day on Thursday (January 9, 2025) to locate trapped miners inside an illegal rat-hole coal mine in Dima Hasao district of Assam, officials said. The search operations resumed early in the morning after the dewatering exercise all night and the Remotely Operated Vehicle […]
The unchanged level of murky water has affected the operations to rescue at least eight miners trapped inside a rat-hole coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district since the morning of January 6. Rescue workers from multiple agencies retrieved the body of one miner, identified as Ganga Bahadur Sresth from Nepal’s Udayapur district, on Wednesday […]
The water level at the flooded rat-hole coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district receded by seven metres on Friday (January 10, 2025), brightening hopes of locating eight miners trapped inside since the morning of January 6. The body of one miner, a resident of Nepal, was retrieved on January 8. During the day, the […]
Rescue workers retrieved bodies bodies of miners from a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district by Saturday (January 11, 2025) afternoon. Four bodies have been recovered so far since January 8, two days after nine miners were trapped on January 6, 2025. “Officials at the site of the mine in the Kalamati […]
A man who made derogatory comments on Assam’s history and traditions on social media has tendered an apology on Saturday (January 11, 2025) claiming that his his intention was not to hurt anyone. The police have already filed a case against Abhishek Kar for a video on a YouTube channel for his derogatory comments and […]
