August 31, 2026 12:00 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
VHP breaks silence on Durga Puja ‘guidelines’: No blanket non-veg ban, clarifies stand on theme pandals amid backlash | No non-veg near pandals, no ‘distorted’ idols: VHP’s Durga Puja guidelines spark Bengal debate | ‘Either they will stay, or we will’: Suvendu Adhikari's warning to Jadavpur students over 'Azadi' slogans | 'Inaccurate reports': Penguin India denies dropping Sonia Gandhi memoir | ‘Clean my shoes’: Greater Noida woman detained after alleged abuse, assault of security guards | 21-year-old model stabbed to death in Delhi; gym trainer arrested after encounter | Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O'Brien, other TMC leaders booked after Camac Street clash with Kolkata Police | Kanpur plane crash: Training aircraft crashes near Ganges, two pilots killed | Big IT boost for Bengal: LTM opens global delivery & AI centre in Kolkata's New Town | 21-year-old Delhi model found stabbed at Delhi home, gym trainer accused of killing her
Covid-19
Image credit : UNI

Two more Assam MLAs tested positive for COVID-19, state tally surges to 57,714

| @indiablooms | Aug 09, 2020, at 06:46 pm

Guwahati/IBNS: Two more MLAs of BJP and AIUDF of Assam have tested positive for COVID-19.

So far, nine MLAs of the state have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus.

According to the Assam state health department, AIUDF MLA of Algapur constituency Nizamuddin Choudhury and eight members of his family tested positive for the new virus.

Nizamuddin Choudhury is currently in home isolation.

On the other hand, BJP MLA Mihir Kanti Shome has also tested positive for the virus.

The doctors have collected samples of the other family members of Mihir Kanti Shome – who is representing Udharbond constituency in Cachar district.

Earlier, seven MLAs of the state including the Deputy Speaker of Assam assembly have tested positive for the new virus.

Assam has so far registered 57,714 positive cases for the deadly virus and 40,591 patients have cured and discharged from hospitals.

The state has now 16,980 active positive cases for COVID-19.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath)

 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.