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Several people are feared dead as a large boat sank in the Brahmaputra river after colliding with a ferry near <keyword id="12053853" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="nimati-ghat" source="Orion">Nimati Ghat</keyword> in Jorhat district of Assam on Wednesday, officials said. The collision occurred when the private boat '<keyword id="12053856" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ma-kamala" source="Orion">Ma Kamala</keyword>' was headed to Majuli from Nimati Ghat and the government-owned ferry 'Tripkai' was coming from Majuli. "The boat 'Ma Kamala' capsized and then sank. We do not have much detail at this moment," an official of the Inland Water Transport (IWT) Department said. Another IWT official said more than 120 passengers were on board the boat, but many of them were rescued by 'Tripkai' which is owned by the department. Jorhat Deputy Commissioner Ashok Barman told PTI that 41 people have been rescued so far and no body has been found yet. "We cannot say right now how many people have died," a senior official of <keyword id="12053854" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="jorhat-district-administration" source="Orion">Jorhat district administration</keyword> said. Personnel of the <keyword id="119446" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="national-disaster-response-force" source="Orion">National Disaster Response Force</keyword> (NDRF) and SDRF have started a search and rescue operation. The boat was also carrying several four-wheelers and two-wheelers that went down the river. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed concern over the accident and directed the district administrations of Majuli and Jorhat to undertake the rescue mission expeditiously with the help of NDRF and SDRF. He also asked minister Bimal Bora to rush to the site of the accident. Sarma asked Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Samir Kumar Sinha to monitor the developments round-the-clock. "The Chief Minister himself will visit Nimati Ghat tomorrow for evaluating the situation," a CMO statement said. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/sbi-life-icici-prudential-life-among-analysts-top-picks/articleshow/86035243.cms">More consolidation may happen in insurance sector going ahead; SBI Life, ICICI Prudential Life among analysts top picks</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/news/union-cabinet-approves-pli-scheme-worth-10683-crore-for-textiles/articleshow/86035041.cms">Union Cabinet approves PLI scheme worth ₹10,683 crore for textiles</a>

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Indian authorities on Saturday offered a cash reward to boost a desperate hunt for a military transport plane missing for nearly a week and feared to have crashed in a remote northeastern state. The <keyword id="15141" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Air-Force">Indian Air Force</keyword> and Arunachal Pradesh state government announced the 550,000 rupee (US$8,000) reward to get village chiefs to organise search parties for the AN-32 that disappeared from radars last Monday carrying 13 people. The Soviet-built air force plane went missing near the border with China and air searches, satellite surveys and efforts to pick up signals from the plane have all failed. In addition to using Indian Space Research Organisation satellites and other hi-tech means, ground teams have been scouring the <keyword id="838145" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mechuka">Mechuka</keyword> jungle region for the plane. A woman in Kuala Lumpur leaves a message of support for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight in March 2014. Photo: Reuters The air force said it would give 500,000 rupees and the state government offered 50,000 rupees for “credible information” leading to the discovery of the plane. Rewards after air accidents are rare. A US$80 million reward was offered after a Malaysian Airlines flight went missing in 2014 on a Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight. It has not been found. The Indian military has deployed nine helicopters, fighter jets and transporters looking for the plane. The ground search is concentrated in Siang district and involves police, air force and army forces, the Indo-Tibetan border police, civil administration teams, hunters and some local people. A senior district official said authorities wanted to get village chiefs more involved. Bad weather has hampered the search in recent days, but a full hunt resumed on Saturday. The turboprop plane was carrying eight crew and five military personnel on the flight. Many relatives of the missing are waiting in the state city of <keyword id="171363" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="JORHAT">Jorhat</keyword> for news. Military spokesman Wing Commander Ratnakar Singh said that no efforts are being spared in the hunt. We stand in support of the families in these difficult times,” Singh said.

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As the incessant monsoon rains continued, <keyword id="395412" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="flood-situation">flood situation</keyword> in <keyword id="6354915" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="assam">Assam</keyword> further worsened on Saturday with 1,289 villages in 21 districts being inundated, distressing 4.63 lakh people, while the Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level at many places in nine districts, officials said. Meanwhile, officials of the state-owned Oil India Ltd (OIL) said that due to the heavy downpour over the past few days, Baghjan - where its leaking oil well caught fire - and adjoining areas in Tinsukia district have been badly hit by flood water and the accident site has been inundated, affecting the efforts to douse the blaze. "All connecting roads to the OIL's oil well site have been submerged with flood water. Bridges were damaged. At many places water is flowing over the road with knee to waist deep water. OIL's operational areas are heavily inundated," an OIL release said. A massive fire broke out on June 9 at OIL's Baghjan oil well near the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park that had been spewing natural gas and oil condensates uncontrollably since May 27. An important bridge en route to Baghjan, around 550 km east of Guwahati, was damaged due to the floods and the Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has asked the official to build a bailey bridge for unimpeded movement of emergency services. An official of <keyword id="9477368" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="the-assam-state-disaster-management-authority">the Assam State Disaster Management Authority</keyword> (ASDMA) said that the flood-hit districts are Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Biswanath, Udalguri, Darrang, Nalbari, Barpeta, Kokrajhar, Nagaon, Golaghat, Jorhat, Majuli, Sivasagar, Dibrugarh, Chirang, Bongaigaon, South Salmara, <keyword id="325889" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Goalpara">Goalpara</keyword>, Kamrup, Morigaon and Tinsukia. The official said : "Over 4.63 lakh people affected by the floods and over 37,313 Ahectares of crop were badly affected due to the floods. Around 19,500 people took shelter in 132 relief camps." The official said that in the current wave of floods, three persons died in Goalpara and Dibrugarh districts while in the first wave of floods from May 22 claimed 15 lives in different districts of Assam. In all, at least 2,49,300 various pets (domestic) animals were affected due to the current wave of floods since early this week. <keyword id="4449695" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-National-Disaster-Response-Force">The National Disaster Response Force</keyword>, Assam State Disaster Response Force personnel, along with local administrations, are continuously working to rescue the affected people and rendering the relief services, including distribution of relief to the marooned villagers. TThe Chief Minister has also directed the Deputy Commissioners of all the affected districts to address the needs of the flood-hit people urgently while also adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols. Meanwhile, the heavy monsoon rains affected the normal life in most of the other northeastern states. The rain water has inundated vast low lying areas of Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/what-ceos-say-india-can-learn-from-china-to-get-more-electric-vehicles-on-the-road/articleshow/76669260.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">What CEOs say India can learn from China to get more electric vehicles on the road</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/swarms-of-locusts-blanket-indias-national-capital-region-pilots-and-airlines-alerted-ahead/articleshow/76660948.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Swarms of locusts blanket India’s national capital region — pilots and airlines alerted ahead</a>

Assam flood situation worsens, 4.63 lakh people affected across 1,289 villages

The flood situation in Assam continued to improve on Sunday as water level is receding fast across the state, officials said. The India Meteorological Department's Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in <keyword id="19941239" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Guwahati" source="keywords">Guwahati</keyword> has also not issued any warning except predicting some rains in Barak valley and a few districts of central Assam. Meanwhile, a report by the Assam State <keyword id="20020610" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="disaster-management" source="keywords">Disaster Management</keyword> Authority (<keyword id="21816603" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ASDMA" source="keywords">ASDMA</keyword>) on Saturday night said that one person died at Gogamukh revenue circle of Dhemaji district. With this, the total number of people losing their lives in this year's flood, landslide, storm and lightning has increased to 107. The report said more than 8,40,000 people are hit due to the floods in Barpeta, Cachar, Chirang, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Golaghat, Hailakandi, Jorhat, Kamrup, Kamrup Metropolitan, Karimganj, Majuli, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivasagar and South Salmara districts. Cachar is the worst hit with nearly 1.5 lakh people suffering, followed by Dhubri with almost 1.27 lakh people and Nagaon with more than 88,500 people reeling under <keyword id="22312557" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="flood-waters" source="keywords">flood waters</keyword>, it added. The administration has been operating 221 <keyword id="20764825" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="relief-camps" source="keywords">relief camps</keyword> and relief distribution centres across 13 districts, taking care of 72,046 displaced people at present. The authority has distributed 616.49 quintals of rice, 111.65 quintals of dal, 32.16 quintals of salt and 2,956.25 litres of mustard oil among the flood victims of the state during the last 24 hours. At present, 1,705 villages are under water and 39,898.92 hectares of crop areas have been damaged across Assam, the ASDMA said. Embankments, roads, bridges and other infrastructure have been damaged by flood waters in Barpeta, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Cachar, Charaideo, Golaghat, Morigaon, Nagaon and Sivasagar. At present, the mighty Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark at Nimatighat, Tezpur and Dhubri. Its tributaries Burhidihing at Chenimari and Disang at Nanglamuraghat are flowing above the danger levels. The Barak river's tributary Kushiyara is also flowing above the danger marks at Karimganj town, ASDMA said. On account of widespread flooding, over 5,03,400 <keyword id="22405280" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="domestic-animals" source="keywords">domestic animals</keyword> and poultry are affected across the state.

Assam flood situation continues to improve; water receding fast

Guwahati, May 25 () The number of coronavirus cases in Assam rose to 427 on Monday after 35 more people tested positive for the disease, state Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Eighteen cases were reported from Golaghat district, six from Kokrajhar, five from Karimganj, two each from Tinsukia and Sivasagar, and one each from Jorhat and Dhemaji, he said. Of the total 427 patients in the state, 57 have recovered, while 363 are undergoing treatment. Four people have died due to the disease. Assam has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases after inter-state movement through road and rail was allowed during the lockdown period. With domestic flight operations resuming in the country from Monday after a gap of two months, health officials are expecting this spike to be sharper in the coming days. To screen all the people returning to the state, the administration has set up five zonal screening camps and similar facilities are already existing in the district headquarters and at local levels. Kokrajhar has the zonal screening camp for lower Assam districts, Tezpur for northern part of the state, Jorhat for upper part, Guwahati for central Assam and Silchar for Barak Valley. Assam has so far tested 66,444 samples for COVID-19 in seven laboratories in the state and the NIV in Pune, the state Health and Family Welfare Department said in its daily bulletin on Sunday night. TR ACD DPB DPB

COVID-19 cases in Assam cross 400-mark

<ul><li>Roads, bridges, culverts and many other infrastructures have been damaged at various places in Biswanath, Lakhimpur, Dhubri, Chirang, Nagaon, Jorhat, Barpeta, Majuli districts. </li><li>The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark at Guwahati, Tezpur, Dhubri and Goalpara towns. </li><li>The floods, triggered by heavy rains, have inundated 122,573 hectares of crop area and have also damaged 30,605. </li></ul>“There’s lots of water, Everything is underwater,” Mohammed Rahman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpYNZ_-ILw">told AFP</a>. From the last few years, heavy floods in South Asia — especially Assam and Bangladesh — have destroyed a large number of homes, displaced millions of people and killed thousands. Rahman lives in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpYNZ_-ILw">in Assam </a>and is among the 4 million people affected by heavy floods in that part of South Asia this year. His home and all the roads in his village are destroyed. In Assam, heavy floods have claimed 123 lives. <div type="Youtube" id="pTpYNZ_-ILw" title="Deadly monsoon floods affect over 4 million across South and Southeast Asia" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pTpYNZ_-ILw/mqdefault.jpg"></div> “Our houses have been underwater. Our houses have been damaged and many people lost their belongings,” another victim of Assam’s heavy floods told ANI. In Bangladesh, Safar Ali<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpYNZ_-ILw"> wasn’t able to enter his house after the water level</a> reached over his chest level. He says, all the houses in his village were underwater. Mosammat Parveen was forced to leave her house and find shelter after the floodwater crossed knee-level. More than a third of the land in Bangladesh is flooded. This is a double whammy for local administration which is already struggling to battle with the coronavirus pandemic. The heavy floods were seen soon after the monsoon started in late June. The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark at Guwahati, Tezpur, Dhubri and Goalpara towns. Its tributaries Dhansiri, Jia Bharali, Kopili, Beki and Sankosh at Golokoganj in Dhubri are also flowing above the danger levels at various places. <div type="image" title="Assam floods2" msid="77190201" hostid="261"></div> Roads, bridges, culverts and many other infrastructures have been damaged at various places in Biswanath, Lakhimpur, Dhubri, Chirang, Nagaon, Jorhat, Barpeta, Majuli districts. Massive erosions have been witnessed at different places of Biswanath, South Salmara, Chirang and Majuli districts.The floods, triggered by heavy rains, have inundated 122,573 hectares of crop area and have also damaged 30,605. <div type="image" title="Assam floods" msid="77190182" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; Guwahati: An aerial view of the flood-affected areas of Assam, on July 24, 2020.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The embankments created by the government to prevent the floods are in need of high maintenance. President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday spoke to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal over the phone on the flood situation in Assam and expressed solidarity with the distressed people of the state. The district administrations have set up around 457 relief camps and distribution centres in 23 districts, where around 46,000 flood-hit people have taken shelter, according to IANS. However, over 2.5 million people have been affected by it, according to IANS. The deluge in eastern and northeastern parts of India is nearly an annual affair but there is little preparation and maximum damage each time. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/coovid-vaccine-from-oxford-serum-institute-and-astrazeneca-shows-promising-immune-response/articleshow/77069321.cms">The COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford and AstraZeneca shows 'promising' results in early human trials</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/dil-bechara-kissing-booth-2-and-other-movies-you-can-watch-on-netflix-amazon-prime-disneyhotstar-this-week/slidelist/77142498.cms">Dil Bechara, Kissing Booth 2 and other movies you can watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+Hotstar this week</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/work-from-home-effect-these-companies-are-shelling-out-for-employees-power-bills-internet-cost-and-more/articleshow/77139229.cms">WFH effect – These companies are paying for employees' power bills, internet cost and more</a>

Gut-wrenching stories from Assam floods which have swept away villages displaced millions and killed over a hundred people

Guwahati, Jun 13 () Twenty-five new COVID-19 cases were reported in Assam, taking the state's tally to 3,718, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday. Of the new cases, 10 are from West Karbi Anglong, five from Jorhat, three each from Baksa and Karbi Anglong, two from Dhemaji and one each Golaghat and Nagaon, the minister said. Of the total 3,718 cases, 2,123 are active cases as 1,584 people have been cured and discharged from different hospitals of the state and three people had migrated out of the state, the minister said. Eight people have died due to COVID-19 in the state. On Friday, the state reported 263 positive cases including 195 late in the night, while 152 patients were discharged from various civil, district and model hospitals after being tested negative, he said. Kamrup (Metro) has the highest number of positive cases, followed by Dhubri, Hojai, Golaghat and Nagaon. Guwahati city, which falls under Kamrup (Metro), has more than 60 active cases, including an 11-month old child. The district administration has declared 36 areas in the city as containment zones.

coronavirus cases in Assam today - 25 new cases, tally rises to 3,718 till June 13

Guwahati, May 8 () The total number of coronavirus cases in Assam rose to 56 with three persons testing positive for the disease on Friday and the test report of a 16-year-old girl confirmed the infection after her death, Health minister Himanta Biswas Sarma said.The three persons had returned from Rajasthan. The girl was suffering from fever and a pain in her leg. When her condition deteriorated, she was admitted to B Barooah Cancer Hospital on Thursday where she died later, the minister said at a press conference.Her sample, taken for COVID-19 testing, and was found to be positive. It is "very unfortunate as she did not get the necessary treatment", he said."We will have to discuss with the Union Health Ministry whether we can declare that she died due to COVID-19 as we did not treat her for the disease. She was found to be positive after her death," Sarma said.The Kamrup (Metro) district administration has declared two hostels and areas around the Guwahati Medical College Hospital, the employers' colony near the B Barooah Cancer Institute where the girl lived with her grandmother and certain areas in Kharghuli and Chandmari as containment zones.Sarma said of the total cases in the state, 21 are active while 34 have been cured of the disease and one died.The health minister said that a bus carrying 45 passengers had arrived in Silchar on Wednesday from Rajasthan's Ajmer.Three of them tested positive on Friday, taking the the total number of cases related to this particular group to eight. Thirty-three were negative and results of other tests are awaited, he said.Since the passengers had gone home briefly after screening, several areas in four villages of Cachar district have been declared as containment zones, Sarma said, adding direct and indirect contact tracing was on and 185 people have been quarantined in facilities.In the last 24 hours, Assam reported a sudden spike in the number of COVID-19 cases. Of the 11 cases reported since Thursday, nine have travel history.After a post-graduate student of the medicine department of Guwahati Medical College Hospital tested positive for COVID-19, the facility has been closed for new patients and 386 people, including hospital superintendent, doctors, students and several workers, have been quarantined, the health minister said.Their swab tests have been conducted and the results were expected by Friday night. The medical student was engaged in screening of COVID-19 patients from May 4, Sarma said.A 55-year-old woman from Kharghuli Hills area of Guwahati has tested positive and admitted to GMCH. Her family members have also been quarantined.The fourth person to test positive in Guwahati had returned from West Bengal on May 6 along with two others in a personal vehicle. The person has been admitted to Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital while the other two have tested negative, Sarma said."This is the second case with travel history to West Bengal and we have asked the police department not to issue passes to those originating their journey from this state, except in humanitarian cases," the minister said.Sarma said that three positive cases in Guwahati with no travel or contact history indicates that traces of the novel coronavirus may be prevalent in the city."People should, however, not panic but strictly follow the guidelines and report to doctors in case they have influenza-like illness (ILI) and diarrhoea," he said.So far, 1,032 people have entered the state since May 6 through check posts at Srirampur and Chagalia along the Assam-West Bengal border from where they proceeded to the five screening centres at Kokrajhar, Guwahati, Tezpur, Jorhat and Silchar.The minister also said that harassing doctors, nurses and health workers is a non-bailable offence under the Epidemic Control Act and the Disaster Management Act. DG RG NSDNSD

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