April 10, 2026 04:53 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Amit Shah promises UCC, ₹3,000 aid per month for women and youth in BJP’s Bengal manifesto | Nitish Kumar takes Rajya Sabha oath; power shift looms in Bihar | Sting video fallout: AIMIM snaps electoral ties with Humayun Kabir in Bengal | Israel says Hezbollah chief’s nephew-cum-secretary killed in Beirut strikes last night | Modi slams TMC on trade, fisheries at Haldia; vows 7th pay commission for govt employees | ‘US military will remain in and around Iran’: Trump amid fragile ceasefire | BJP eyes Assam hattrick, Puducherry comeback; LDF faces Kerala test | Israel claims Hezbollah chief's nephew killed in Beirut strikes last night | Jaishankar’s high-stakes diplomatic tour: EAM to visit UAE this week, first visit amid Middle East conflict | Passport row: Barricades outside Pawan Khera’s Hyderabad house after Himanta Biswa Sarma's warning
Covid-19

Former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi tests positive for Covid-19

| @indiablooms | Aug 26, 2020, at 04:53 pm

Dispur/IBNS: Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has tested positive for Novel Coronavirus or Covid-19.

The former CM tweeted, "I have been tested Covid 19 positive yesterday. People who came in contact with me during Last few days they should go for Covid test immediately." (sic)

Gogoi is the latest Indian politician to get infected with the contagion.

Former Jharkhand CM Shibu Soren had last week tested Covid positive.

The Congress leader was in last few days busy with the his party works. 

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.