Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to revamp the Brahmaputra Board so that it could take up measures to control the recurring problems of flood and erosion.
At least five Youth Congress activists were killed and 21 others injured, five of them seriously, in a road accident at Chakarigaon in Central Assam's Nagaon district today, police said.
Three persons of a family were burnt to death and another severely injured while six houses gutted following a gas cylinder explosion in Assam's Sonitpur district on Sunday, police said.
Three people were dead and at least 50 passengers injured when the engine and five compartments of a train derailed after hitting an earth-cutting vehicle on its track in Kamrup (Rural) district of Assam today.
The steady decline in militancy across the Northeast has posed a new challenge for the army — tapping the energy of warrior communities to ensure that the region does not relapse into bloodshed.
The zoo, it appears, is no longer an insurance against poaching for feral animals.
A powerful Naga organisation has ‘restrained’ political parties from contesting in Manipur’s Naga-dominated assembly constituencies.
In another age, Sehpu Haokip would probably not have been in a Naga party. But politics is known to make strange bedfellows.
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Party timeAt least three persons were injured when suspected ULFA militants hurled a handgrenade in a busy market place in upper Assam's Tinsukia town on Monday.
Two Meghalaya traffic police personnel — who were summoned before a legislative assembly panel after they booked a legislator for traffic rule violation — were spared on Tuesday when a senior officer apologised on their behalf.
The outfit's objective, reports based in intelligence inputs say, is to create an autonomous district council out of nine circles in Lohit and Changlang districts of India's easternmost state.
United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) cadres laid down arms on Wednesday. Around 568 militants, including 22 women, surrendered at a formal ceremony at Assam’s Karbi Anglong district headquarters.
A tribal militant group has whipped up sentiments ahead of its December 17 peace talks with New Delhi for the creation of a separate state. The demand coincided with the laying down of arms by another rebel group after striking a ‘state-like’ deal.
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) claimed today that Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was one of its members before betraying its cause to align with forces of ‘colonial India’.
Extortion threats from tribal militants have forced dozens of government doctors to flee their areas of posting in western Assam, leaving hundreds of patients at the mercy of paramedics.