Guwahati: One person was killed and five others injured in three separate incidents of violence in Assam's strife-torn Kokrajhar district late on Monday night, the police said. The first incident took place in Phumti Village under Salakati police outpost, but no casualty was reported from there. In yet another incident, one person was killed and four others injured when miscreants opened fire in Pakritola village under Fakira gram, they said,...
09:20 AM, Aug 28, 2012
Dhubri/Kokrajhar: Fresh incidents of violence on Sunday rocked strife-torn Lower Assam districts leaving one person dead in Dhubri and two injured in Kokrajhar even as protestors blocked a national highway in the state. Police said that a body with injury marks was found in Sukhanjora village under the Bogribari police station area in Dhubri district on Sunday morning, taking the toll in the violence since July 19 to 87. The...
05:57 PM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: Seven cases registered against arrested Assam MLA Pradeep Brahma are likely to be handed over to the CBI, which is already probing seven other cases related to clashes between Bodos and immigrant minorities in the state. Officials said the MLA of the Bodoland Peoples Front, which is an ally of the ruling Congress in Assam, has been named in seven cases after witnesses complained that he was leading...
06:52 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Guwahati: Normal life was affected in lower Assam districts on Thursday due to a day-long bandh called by a Muslim outfit to protest against the recent violence. Official sources said shops, schools, business establishment and financial institutions remained closed while there was less traffic on the national highway. Train movement, however, was not affected. The bandh has been called by new outfit Muslim Yuva Parishad. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi...
11:12 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Guwahati: Assam MLA Pradeep Brahma from Bodoland People's Front has been arrested by the state police for his alleged involvement in the ethnic violence on Thursday. Brahma was arrested from Kokrajhar. The protestors blocked railway tracks across the state following the arrest of the MLA, demanding his release. Brahma was held after seven cases were registered against him. This is the first significant arrest in the case. Meanwhile, an indefinite...
08:56 AM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre is to send a seven-member team to the violence affected districts of Assam on Tuesday. The team will be in the region for three days to assist the state government in its rescue and rehabilitation efforts. Nearly 76 people were killed and over five lakh rendered homeless in the week-long violence between Bodo tribal groups and Muslims in the lower regions of Assam, including Kokrajhar, Chirang...
08:39 AM, Aug 21, 2012
An uneasy calm prevails amongst the relief camps of Assam as people have no other option but to stay put on Eid amidst tight security. ...
12:16 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Indore: Blaming the Centre for the violence in Assam and the subsequent exodus of Northeast Indians from various parts of the country to their home states, the BJP on Sunday said the "vote-bank" politics of Congress was "weakening" the country. "Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are crossing over to India in large numbers. At the same time, the people from northeast settled in various parts of the country for employment have to...
09:43 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Guwahati: Two Bodo groups including the National Democratic Front of Bodoland's (NDFB) pro-talk faction on Saturday demanded that the Assam government verify the citizenship status of the Bengali-speaking Muslims, displaced during last month's clashes, before rehabilitating them. The pro-talk faction of the NDFB, also known as NDFB (Progressive) and People's Joint Action Committee for Bodoland Movement - a conglomeration of several Bodo and non-Bodo organisations in the Bodoland Territorial Areas...
09:09 AM, Aug 19, 2012
Yet another cycle of violence has erupted in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-lingual Northeast, a "frontier" region that historically, socially and spatially has had only a tenuous connection with India. Bordering Bangladesh, Myanmar and China, the naturally well-endowed region is riven by land, language, religion and identity conflicts. For the past several weeks, ethnic and communal violence has engulfed the Bodo tribal homeland, claiming more than 60 lives and putting...
12:39 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Guwahati: Adding fuel to the volatile situation in violence-hit Assam, one more person was shot dead at Kokrajhar by unidentified persons at around 7.30 pm on Friday. There were reportedly three assailants on motorbikes, who killed owner of a pharmacy shop at Pandarchowa under Salakati police station. The violence between the Bodos and minority migrants claimed 78 lives so far in violence-hit areas of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Dhubri and Baksa districts....
09:31 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is in constant touch with his counterparts in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharasthra following reports of exodus of the state's students after being targeted in the wake of violence in Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD). "The Chief Minister is in constant touch with his counterparts who have assured him to provide security to the students from the state who are in the grip...
11:58 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Guwahati: Altogether 2,92,852 violence affected people are currently living in 228 relief camps in four trouble-torn districts of lower Assam, while 10,636 inmates having left the camps during the last 24 hours. In Kokrajhar, 10,300 inmates left the camps, while 336 people went home in Chirang though none did so in Dhubri district, an official release said in Guwahati on Tuesday. Among the total inmates in the relief camp, 61,439...
07:33 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Guwahati: The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) on Sunday said violent incidents like the recent clashes in BTAD and Dhubri would continue until the Indo-Bangla border was properly sealed. "The Centre has failed to live up to its promise of sealing the border even 27 years after the signing of the Assam Accord and incidents of violence and clash will continue if the border remains porous," AASU President Sankar Prasad...
06:55 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Guwahati: A judicial inquiry will be held to probe the Bodo-minority violence in lower Assam even as CBI has taken up seven cases related to the clashes that have claimed 77 lives so far. "We have decided on a judicial inquiry. This will be done at a much larger scale and cover the entire gamut of issues, including lapses by administration and recommendations for preventing such incidents in future," Assam...
06:28 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Bilasipara: There was little time to do anything but grab her two young boys and run as fast as she could when the gunmen came into the northeast village in the dead of night and began firing. Along with scores of other villagers, nine-months pregnant Rohima Begum hid with her family waist-deep in the rice fields as the gunshots rang out amid the screams of those left behind. Eighteen days...
02:47 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Guwahati: The continuing violence in lower Assam has once again brought to the fore the illegal migration and its impact on the socioeconomic situation in the state, which had witnessed prolonged unrest on the explosive issue back in the 80s. Seventy-seven people have lost their lives in the sporadic clashes between Bodos and Muslims in BTAD (Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts) and Dhubri district in the last fortnight as Assam Chief...
12:32 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Kokrajhar: Even as Parliament had a heated debate over the Assam violence on Day one of the Monsoon session, things on the ground haven't changed much. With an uneasy calm still prevailing since the latest killings on Tuesday, there's a constant fear that clashes may erupt again. The relief camps are desperately trying to cater to more than 4 lakh people rendered homeless in the two-week long communal violence. Amidst...
08:57 AM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: A team of CBI officials will visit violence-hit areas of Assam tomorrow after Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi decided to recommend a probe by the Central agency into the clashes. Although CBI has not registered any case in connection with the fresh spate of violence, a team of officials will be sent to the state to gather preliminary information, agency sources said. After fresh incidents of violence were reported...
04:07 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Guwahati: A Special Crime Team from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will be investigating the recent spell of ethnic violence in Assam that ravaged four districts. The team will be heading to the state on Thursday. Officials say it will take up the larger conspiracy cases. The development comes after two weeks of violence left 70 people dead. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had demanded a CBI probe into...
09:49 AM, Aug 08, 2012
