GAUHATI: Assam has suffered a loss of about 10 crores of rupees in damage to immovable property and cattle wealth … caused by the recent earthquake and floods, according to unofficial estimates. It is feared that the loss in human life will run into four figures when details from tribal villages are available. Hundreds of villages in Upper Assam were under flood waters of the River Dehing and its tributary Sessa.

Earthquake shocks continued today [Aug 25] … Four such tremors were felt at Dibrugarh between eight and ten this morning, and the fifth at 2 p.m. The River Dening has been silted by a rise in its bed at one place… . A dredger has been employed to clear the river.

The Brahmaputra again swelled today after … three days, and … huge pieces of timber and other kinds of wood [flowed] down the river… . Steamer services in and around Gau­hati are affected … [largely] by the … timber … and the river service between Dibrugarh and Dishangmukh has been … paralysed. The Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, and the Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Patel, have [appealed] to the public to contribute generously … to the Assam Governor’s Earthquake Relief Fund. — News agencies

Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2025