Assam education department on Thursday notified that the entire month of May will be treated as summer vacation and all educational institutes in the state will be allowed to re-open only from June 1 even if the third phase of the Covid-19 lockdown comes to an end on May 17 and is not extended further.

Nearly 1000 returnees, including 140 students of Assam studying in different universities and institutions of Gujarat, arrived in Guwahati on Thursday, even as nearly three lakh people, who had earlier registered for coming to the state, have re-applied cancelling their requests for permits.

The Assam health department on Thursday launched a drive in every village to check if people were suffering from viral infections like Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and Influenza-Like Illness (ILI). Health teams moved from house to house to conduct tests on villagers.

Four northeastern neighbouring states – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland — are jointly working on simultaneous imposition of cess on liquour in their respective states.

A total of 26 Bangladeshis, who were in Assam on tourist visas and had been held in Dhubri for violating their visa conitions, have been sent to judicial custody.

Assam University Teachers' Association (AUTA) is unhappy with the Centre's decision to freeze hike of Dearness Allowance (DA) of its employees and Dearness Relief (DR) of pensioners at current rates till July 2021.

Deputy commissioner (Sonitpur) Manvendra Pratap Singh told TOI, "I have held a review meeting will all government officials and the preparations are complete.

Assam has been allotted 1.25 lakh MT of rice per month under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) scheme for three months from April to June for free distribution among 2.49 crores beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in the state.

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has converted 315 coaches into 'Covid Care Centres' and are ready for placement at 20 nominated stations under its jurisdiction for use by the states concerned if they exhaust their facilities and need to augment capacities for isolation of both suspects and confirmed Covid cases.

It could be ‘odd-even’ time for classrooms in schools post the national lockdown, which means there will be only 50% students on campus on any given day. As per the school reopening plan being considered by NCERT, social distancing, more individualistic assessment & teaching-learning will be guiding principles soon to be announced by the HRD ministry.

The pending 29 subjects of the CBSE Board exams will be conducted from July 1 to July 15, 2020, announced ministry of human resource development (MHRD) on Friday. The Class X Board exams for six subjects will be conducted only for the students of North East Delhi which were suspended due to the riots earlier this year. The date sheet will be announced shortly.

With 60 Covid-19 positive cases in the past 24 hours, the number of infected people in Odisha mounted to 245 on Friday, government updates show.

Odisha reported 34 new cases on Thursday, 30 of them migrant workers who had returned from Surat in Gujarat.

Leaders of political parties on Friday expressed concern over the sad state of Odia migrant labourers stranded at different parts of the country.