The Sivasagar district administration has completed around 85 per cent of the rapid damage assessment survey after the devastating floods on July 19. A total of 574 surveyors deployed since August 9…
The Gauhati High Court has admitted a PIL filed by Congress leader Debabrata Saikia alleging that illegal mining and administrative negligence caused the devastating July floods in Upper Assam. Chief Justice Ashutosh…
The Centre has approved housing assistance worth approximately Rs 5,000 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin for flood-affected families in Assam. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan handed over approval for…
Dr Mythili Hazarika, associate professor of clinical psychology at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, has called for a long-term government plan to provide psychological counselling to people affected by floods in Assam's…
Bornali Baruah, 40, and her husband carried his bedridden 97-year-old mother Lokada Duarah on a makeshift raft of banana trunks through three-foot-deep floodwaters in Assam's Sivasagar district on 19 July. The family…
A month after devastating floods hit Assam's Sivasagar district, water levels have receded but survivors face a difficult rebuilding process. At least 105 people have died in flood-related incidents, with 54 deaths…
The flood situation in Assam remained grim on Friday, with more than 2.12 lakh people affected across eight districts, while the cumulative death toll due to this year's floods rose to 80,…
A global study by World Weather Attribution (WWA) says human factors, not climate change, worsened the floods that killed at least 103 people in eastern Assam between late June and early August…
Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk has written to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, expressing condolences after floods killed 103 people, Hindustan Times reports. In a letter dated August 3, the…
The Tuli Area Coal Mining Contractors’ Association has urged Assam and Nagaland residents to avoid blaming one State or community for the floods and landslips that killed at least 115 people between…
