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 the violence....
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09:49 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Guwahati: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday said BJP leader LK Advani while commenting on the violence in Assam must have forgotten that he was the home minister and deputy prime minister when the Godhra riots took place. "He has been accusing us for delay in containing the violence. He forgot that when he was the home minister and the deputy prime minister, Godhra riots took place in Gujarat," Gogoi...
04:55 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Patna: Ruling JD(U) in Bihar on Sunday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immediately remove Home Minister P Chidambaram and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for their "total failure" to check violence in Assam. Talking to reporters, JD-U chief spokesman Shakil Ahmed Khan and Bihar Food minister Shyam Rajak alleged that both Chidambaram and Gogoi proved to be "total failure" in tackling the violence in the northeast state. The Prime Minister...
10:55 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Kokrajhar: Ethnic violence on Tuesday escalated in more areas of western Assam with 11 fresh casualties in clashes and police firing, forcing the Centre to rush 1,500 more paramilitary personnel to control the unrest that has claimed 32 lives so far. A concerned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called up Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and asked him to do "everything possible" to control the violence while promising Centre's full cooperation. "Four...
11:37 PM, Jul 24, 2012
There has been some serious fallout of the violence in Kokrajhar district in Assam where 21 people have died so far. Nearly 50,000 people have fled their homes in and around 400 villages across Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Chirang districts. ...
11:25 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Guwahati: The communal violence in Kokrajhar in Assam is spreading to other districts like Dhubri. Villagers are fleeing their villages and taking shelter in relief camps as more than 50,000 people have been displaced. The violence has been spreading like wildfire since Friday evening. Clashes between Bodos and minority Muslims have thrown normal life out of gear. The violence has spread beyond Kokrajhar to Dhubri, Chirang, Baksa and Bijni, and...
09:19 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Guwahati: There has been some serious fallout of the violence in Kokrajhar district in Assam where 21 people have died so far. Nearly 50,000 people have fled their homes in and around 400 villages across Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Chirang districts. The government has set up 42 relief camps. Meanwhile, train services have been severely hit due to the rail blockades. At least six north-east bound trains have been cancelled and...
06:06 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Guwahati: Train services to and from the north east have been severely hit and more than 20,000 passengers have been stranded at different places following violence in lower Assam which has claimed 25 lives. North East Frontier Railway spokesman N Bhattacharjee on Tuesday said that 11 down trains from Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Kamakhya railway stations have been cancelled. Altogether 21 trains, including the Guwahati-bound Rajdhani Express, have been halted at...
06:00 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The violence in the Kokrajhar region of Assam escalated on Monday with the protesters stopping the Guwahati-New Delhi Rajdhani Express. The train left for its destination after security forces cleared the track. Meanwhile, the death toll in the violence reached 17 on Monday morning. Police have intensified patrols after reports that the clashes between locals and immigrants was now spreading to Chirang district. A 14-year-old boy, Zakir Ali,...
01:47 PM, Jul 23, 2012
