GUWAHATI: More than 450,000 people could die from additional heat linked to the ongoing super El Niño by February 2027, according to estimates by climate scientists. ALSO READ: Manipur’s Roshibina Devi Bags Silver, Secures Third Straight Asian Games Medal The projected deaths would be in addition to heat-related deaths already being driven by rising global…
A year later, prayers, remembrance and a continuing legal battle mark Zubeen Garg’s legacy Assam marks one year since the death of Zubeen Garg, the singer, composer, actor and filmmaker whose voice was inseparable from the state's cultural identity. What began as sudden, shocking news from a yacht trip off Singapore's Lazarus Island has,…
Assam Celebrated, Flooded, Fought and Mourned — But Never Replaced Him Assam has completed one year without Zubeen Garg, but the state has not really learned how to live with his absence. The festivals returned, the microphones were switched on, the cinema halls opened their doors, political parties went to the people, floods once…
GUWAHATI: At least 162 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing after massive flash floods swept through communities along the Nepal-China border, with authorities attributing the disaster to a glacial collapse that triggered seismic activity, causing catastrophic downstream impact. ALSO READ: More Than 100 Indians Missing After Flash Flood Hits Nepal’s Bhote Koshi River…
GUWAHATI: The flood situation in Assam has worsened, with 14 more people losing their lives in the last 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 61. ALSO READ: JNU Joins DU and IITs in Asking Students, Faculty to Avoid Jantar Mantar Protests According to the latest official flood bulletin dated Friday, July 24, Charaideo…
Assam’s elephant crisis deepens as electrocution and conflict claim hundreds of lives over a decade The death of a female elephant in Tinsukia district after an electrocution incident has once again brought Assam’s growing human-elephant conflict into focus, with the state government revealing that the crisis has claimed 1,147 human lives and 246 elephant…
GUWAHATI: In yet another tragic incident involving a roadside tree collapse this month, a father and his eight-year-old son lost their lives after an old tree fell on their scooter in the Chandubi Rajapara area on the outskirts of Guwahati on Monday, June 22. ALSO READ: Gauhati Medical College Radiology Department Gets NABH Accreditation The…
