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    Infant dies of swine flu at Silchar; authorities cite comorbidities
    Assam

    Infant dies of swine flu at Silchar; authorities cite comorbidities

    Silchar, May 8: In a shocking incident, an infant afflicted with the H1N1 virus (swine flu) undergoing treatment at the Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH) died on Tuesday.However, the SMCH authorities are claiming that the casualty is not due to the swine flu virus but because of comorbid...
    NIT Shocker: Student dies by suicide in Silchar
    Assam

    NIT Shocker: Student dies by suicide in Silchar

    Silchar, May 6: In yet another shocking incident at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, a sixth-semester student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering was found hanging inside the guest house of the institute on Monday. According to the police, the body was found hanging...
    86-year-old ex-army personnel disheartened as marked dead on Silchar voters list
    Assam

    86-year-old ex-army personnel disheartened as marked "dead" on Silchar voters'...

    Silchar, May 5: 86-year-old Niresh Ranjan Bhattacharjee, a retired Indian Army personnel and a resident of Pushpa Vihar Lane in Meherpur area here had gone to the Bipalabi Ullaskar Vidya Bhawan voting centre on April 26 to cast his vote in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections. But to his...
    Assam: Cachar Police rescues three minor missing boys
    Assam

    Assam: Cachar Police rescues three minor missing boys

    Silchar, May 4: Cachar Police succeeded in finding three minor boys, aged around 11–14, who have been missing from the Kanakpur area in Cachar district since Wednesday. Additional SP (Headquarter) Subrata Sen informed the media on Friday that on Thursday evening, the matter was reported and...
    Assam: Rain, hailstorm hits tea industry in Barak Valley
    Assam

    Assam: Rain, hailstorm hits tea industry in Barak Valley

    Silchar, May 4: Heavy rainfall and hailstorms over the past few days across various places in Barak Valley have severely affected the tea industry in southern Assam.Officials of the Surma Valley branch of the Indian Tea Association (SVBITA) and the Tea Association of India (TAI) Barak Valley branch...
    Assam: Lightning claims two lives, injures two in Cachar
    Assam

    Assam: Lightning claims two lives, injures two in Cachar

    Silchar, May 2: In a tragic incident, two minors, aged 14 and 17, died after being struck by lightning in Assam’s Cachar district on Thursday.According to sources in the District Disaster Management Authority, the incident occurred at 2 pm at Ganganagar village, part-II under the Sonai revenue...
    Minor girl drowns in Digli River in Assams Cachar
    Assam

    Minor girl drowns in Digli River in Assam's Cachar

    Silchar, May 2: In a shocking incident, the dead body of a minor, aged around 3 years, was recovered from the waters of the Digli River along the Assam-Manipur border in Cachar district.According to SDRF officials, they received the report of the incident at 1:25 p.m. on Tuesday and plunged into a...
    Transportation disruptions & rising airfare concerns people in Barak Valley
    Assam

    Transportation disruptions & rising airfare concerns people in Barak Valley

    Silchar, May 1: At a time when inclement weather is causing severe disruptions across various places in the state and train services are affected owing to derailment in the Lumding division, people of southern Assam are faced with great difficulties in moving out of the region to reach the state...
    Ghost of waterlogging haunts Silchar residents yet again
    Assam

    Ghost of waterlogging haunts Silchar residents yet again

    Silchar, Apr 29: Spells of torrential rain and hailstorms on Sunday night greeted the people of Silchar, the second biggest urban sprawl in the state, with waterlogged roads and inundation across many low-lying areas on Monday morning.The woes of waterlogging kept affecting normal life, especially...
    EVM glitch temporarily delays voting at Silchar
    Assam

    EVM glitch temporarily delays voting at Silchar

    Silchar, April 26: In a hiccup during the electoral process, an electronic voting machine (EVM) malfunction at polling station number 48, room number 1, briefly halted voting, causing a delay of 30 minutes.The incident occurred at Nrityamayee Prathamik Vidyalaya, where a considerable number of 1037...
    TMC MP Sagarika Ghose advocates for woman Prime Minister in India
    Assam

    TMC MP Sagarika Ghose advocates for woman Prime Minister in India

    Silchar, April 24: Journalist-turned Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha of the Trinamool Congress, Sagarika Ghose, on Wednesday said that considering the political situation in the country, India needs a woman Prime Minister. Ghose, who is in Silchar to campaign for the TMC's Silchar...
    Sonowal banks on development initiatives for BJPs win in Silchar 
    Assam

    Sonowal banks on development initiatives for BJP's win in Silchar 

    Silchar, April 23: Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday claimed that, banking on the massive scale of development brought in by the BJP-led government over the last 10 decades, which has transformed the North East, the BJP will be able to win more than 12 out of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the...
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