Three school students drowned in a pond at Assam’s Jorhat district on Saturday while celebrating a friend’s birthday with a group of boys. The victims, identified as Akshat Kumar Roy, Sushanta Patel and Rehan, were later recovered by SDRF personnel
Assam’s flood situation improved on Monday, though one more person drowned in Sivasagar, taking this year’s flood death toll to 105. Around 32,000 people remain affected across four districts, with Nagaon worst hit. Crops, roads, bridges and other infrastructure have suffered damage
Assam's flood situation improved on Thursday, with over 77,500 people affected across four districts, down from nearly 87,000 a day earlier. Golaghat remained the worst-hit district. No fresh deaths were reported, while hundreds of villages and thousands of hectares remained flooded
Assam’s flood death toll reached 100 after two more fatalities were reported, while nearly 1.4 lakh people remained affected across seven districts. Hundreds of villages and thousands of hectares of farmland were inundated, with several rivers flowing above danger levels
A gravity-based, zero-energy water purifier developed by CSIR-NEERI is providing relief in flood-hit Assam’s Jorhat district, where potable water is scarce. Officials distributed 100 NEERI-ZAR units, including household and community systems, designed to supply drinking and cooking water without electricity
The Assam government released nearly Rs 160 crore as interim flood relief to around 75,000 worst-affected households across four districts. Flood-related deaths rose to 85, while over 1.36 lakh people remained affected as relief and rehabilitation operations continued
HM Shah will begin his visit by arriving in Jorhat on March 14, where he is expected to participate in a range of significant activities, including the inauguration of the upgraded Lachit Barphukan Police Academy, a key initiative to enhance law enforcement infrastructure in Assam.
Jorhat (Assam): Rescue operations continue in Jorhat district of Assam where a boat capsized in the Brahmaputra River after a collision with another boat on Wednesday. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams from Sivasagar are carrying out the rescue operations at Nimati Ghat in Jorhat where the incident occurred yesterday. “Our teams reached Nimati Ghat […]
