Kokrajhar: One person was killed and four others were injured when unidentified persons lobbed a hand grenade at a busy place in Assam's Chirang district on Wednesday evening, officials said. The miscreants came in a car and hurled the grenade towards a group of people around 6.30 pm near a wine shop at the railway crossing in Basugaon town, they said, adding one person died on the spot while four others were hurt.
The attack took place in midst of the culmination of the Durga Puja festival and hundreds of people were returning from the immersion procession at that time. Additional police and paramilitary forces have been rushed to the spot from the district headquarters of Kajalgaon.
Unofficial sources said police recovered another live grenade from the spot. However, officials remain tight-lipped about the recovery.
Kokrajhar was hit by a wave of ethnic clashes between Bodo tribals and Muslims in the last week of July this year. The cause of the violence remained unclear, albeit over 80 people lost their lives....
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09:43 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Guwahati: The Army on Tuesday staged flag marches at various places in BTAD as the AAMSU-sponsored day-long Assam bandh turned violent with government officials and mediapersons attacked leading to imposition of curfew in some areas. Assam IGP (BTAD) SN Singh told PTI "Flag marches by the Army are on at various places. The situation in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) is tense but under control." The death toll in...
08:10 PM, 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
New Delhi: Twitter has promised to cooperate with the government after the Prime Minister's Office complained to it about objectionable content on six accounts resembling the PMO's official account. As the government blocked the six accounts after Twitter took no action, the social networking portal has communicated to the PMO that it would be locating the "unlawful content". It has told the PMO that it could not take action earlier...
04:58 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday announced a cash reward of up to Rs 1 lakh to anyone who could provide credible information which could lead to identification or arrest of perpetrators of the Assam violence. A team of special crime unit is camping in Assam to probe seven cases of violence registered by it from three districts in connection with ethnic riots, CBI sources said. CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra...
03:04 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: 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
New Delhi: The Centre on Saturday said the situation in Assam was peaceful and under control and 170 people were arrested after registration of 309 cases in the Northeastern state. The Home Ministry said in a statement that by and large normalcy has restored in Kokrajhar and other violence-affected districts after regular patrolling by Army troops and deployment of 6,500 paramilitary and state police personnel. "104 fixed police pickets have...
07:43 PM, Aug 11, 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
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
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
Kokrajhar: Hope is still alive in Kokrajhar even as some of the villages have been razed to ground. Moinagori village resident Sushmita Basumatary still refuses to accept how violence destroyed her neighbouring village in Naobhita. It's hard for the women in Moinagori to understand how friends from the other community had to escape to relief camps. The pain of separation is inexplicable. "For years we have been together. No clue...
10:07 PM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh describing the Assam riots as a 'blot on the nation', BJP on Saturday demanded a reply from him on the reported statement by Assam Chief Minister about delay in deploying the army to help curb violence. The party also accused the Congress of being responsible for the ethnic violence. "The Prime Minister has gone to Assam and described the Kokrajhar incidents as a...
08:02 PM, Jul 28, 2012
More than two lakh people are trying to survive and overcome their fears in the relief camps in Assam. ...
11:45 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: Under fire from all quarters for the continuing violence in his state, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday hit back at the Centre, the Opposition and the media, saying that his resignation over the issue was not going to help matters. "Media keeps asking me if I am resigning. Will my resigning not create chaos?" he asked, adding, "Like that, administration officers will say they are going...
01:53 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Hyderabad: The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Assam might be a distant problem for many in the twin cities as they go about their business as usual. But for a few students and professionals " all natives of the Bodoland region " living in Hyderabad, life has turned upside down in the last few days. Some of them have no clue as to what has happened to their parents and have...
03:20 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Guwahati: Desperate efforts are on to bring the situation in Assam under control. While around 1000 troops have been mobilised for peacekeeping in the state, the army has also been conducting flag marches in violence-hit areas. Meanwhile, the government is making a bid to bring warring factions of the Bodos and minority groups to the talking table. According to sources, two officials from the Union Home Ministry will be speaking...
06:07 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Kokrajhar: The violence in the Kokrajhar region of Assam shows no sign of ending. An estimated 50,000 refugees have taken shelter in relief camps so far, while those affected in the violence are said to be more than 60,000. The violence has spread to neighbouring districts such as Chirang and turned into a rail blockade agitation as well. With hundreds of protesters protesting on railway tracks, six north-east bound trains...
08:31 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Assam Police on Monday issued shoot-at-sight order in Kokrajhar after fresh clashes and arson were reported from the Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts (BTAD). Two more bodies were recovered from the banks of Gouranga river on Monday morning taking the toll to 19 in the ethic violence. People stopped the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express at Pratapkhat between Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon alleging that their houses were damaged by miscreants when...
08:20 PM, Jul 23, 2012
