New Delhi: The Assam government on Monday stepped up security on the North East Frontier Railway (NEFR) after a threat issued by a tribal group to disrupt traffic.
The group, called the Adivasi People's Army, issued a threat to disrupt rail traffic at Srirampur and Kokrajhar in Assam.
Kokrajhar in Assam is a sensitive area that witnessed violent clashes between different groups in 2012. Four Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts (BTAD) districts and Dhubri were rocked by widespread violence between Bodos and minorities which left about 90 people dead and more than 4.8 lakh homeless during July-August 2012.
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05:33 PM, May 13, 2013
Passengers of the Howrah-Guwahati down Garibrath Express had a providential escape on Sunday when a powerful bomb exploded on the railway tracks minutes after it passed Goabari in lower Assam's Kokrajhar district. There was no casualty or injury. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Kokrajhar: The police crackdown on people behind the second round of violence in Kokrajhar in Assam led to the arrest of a key Bodo leader on Saturday. It does seem that the Congress is desperate to distance itself from its coalition partner in the state, the Bodoland People's Front. ULFA in Assam on Monday will protest an alleged fake encounter in Majuli. ULFA's anti-talk faction has called for a 12-hour...
06:31 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Guwahati: Curfew was relaxed for six hours in troubled Kokrajhar district on Sunday with no incident reported from anywhere since Saturday night and the situation remaining under control. Official sources said curfew was relaxed from 10 am to 4 pm in the district barring in nine villages - five in Kokrajhar sub-division and four in Gossaigaon sub-division of the district identified as vulnerable by security forces. The situation was tense...
02:44 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday flayed the "bad handling" of the violence at Kokrajhar district in the neighbouring state of Assam. "West Bengal has to bear the after-effect of violence in Assam. We do not support riots. Bad handling (of the situation)," she said without elaborating. Her comments came after four persons were killed in Kokrajhar on Friday night amid indefinite curfew taking the toll in...
12:18 AM, Nov 18, 2012
Guwahati: Bodoland area in lower Assam witnessed fresh trouble with the killing of four persons by armed assailants in Jiaguri even as police arrested a member of Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District in connection with the killing. The assailants fired randomly on a group of persons at Jiaguri in Kokrajhar police station in which four persons were killed late last night, Inspector General of Police (BTAD) SN Singh said on Saturday....
10:21 AM, Nov 17, 2012
Kokrajhar: The indefinite curfew continues in Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon districts of Assam following renewed violence. Six people have died in the latest violence between two suspected factions of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). 27-year-old Majeda Khatun is inconsolable. Her husband Ashrafudin Sheikh a school teacher is one of the victims of the fresh clashes that have erupted in Kokhrajar. Their 4-year-old son is yet to fully understand that...
06:33 AM, Nov 17, 2012
Curfew has been imposed in Kokrajhar and Gossaingaon districts after violent clashes between two factions of the NDFB. ...
10:05 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Guwahati: Curfew has been imposed in Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon districts of Assam following renewed violence. On Thursday morning one person was stabbed in a market in Kokrajhar while one body was recovered in Gossaigaon, taking the death toll to five in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) since Saturday. The civil administration and police force are taking measures to control the situation after the violence flared up once again. Earlier,...
12:59 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Guwahati: Three persons have been killed as violence erupted in Kokrajhar. While two person were killed on Friday, November 10, another person was shot dead on Monday. A person was shot dead at Badugaon under Gossaigaon police station of Kokrajhar district on Friday and in the retaliatory attack, a youth was attacked with sharp weapons and killed at nearby Batlanmara village. Following the violence, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi directed...
12:49 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Guwahati: In a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Assam's Bodoland, two persons were killed in Kokrajhar district on Saturday, a senior police official said. One person was shot dead at Badugaon under Gosaigaon police station at around 1340 hrs and in a retailatory attack. A youth was hacked to death with sharp-edged weapons at nearby Batlanmara village, Additional Superintendent (Headquarters) of Police Surjeet Singh said. The fresh bout of...
12:19 AM, Nov 11, 2012
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...
09:43 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Kokrajhar: The Indian Air Force is standing by its pilot's decision to not fly Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi to Guwahati on Tuesday, according to sources. Sources add that the IAF feels that the pilot had used his professional judgement and had refused to fly due to inclement weather. After the Met department issued a warning over lightning and thundershowers, the pilot had taken the decision. The Congress General Secretary...
11:45 AM, Sep 12, 2012
Kokrajhar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Tuesday forced to change his travel plans as the Air Force (IAF) did not oblige his request for flying him from Kokrajhar to Guwahati citing bad weather. He was on a day's trip to the state to meet victims of ethnic violence in relief camps and held discussions with Bodoland Territorial Council leaders on the prevailing situation in Assam. While travelling back to...
09:07 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Guwahati: With violence dying down in lower Assam since it broke out on July 19, the administrations of Kokrajhar and Chirang districts, the worst-hit, have drawn up an action plan on confidence building measures. Peace meeting by committees comprising representatives of different communities, appeals to refugees to go home with the return of peace and a call to all political parties and organisations not to call bandhs, rallies road and...
11:29 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Guwahati: The army, deployed in Assam's troubled Kokrajhar district, has started an operation to seize all illegal arms and ammunition there, informed sources said on Saturday. "The army has started an operation in the district today (Saturday). The operation will continue till all the illegal arms and ammunition are seized in Kokrajhar," said a highly-placed source. The sources indicated that similar operations might also be carried out in all the...
12:33 AM, Sep 02, 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
More than a month has passed since the Kokrajhar violence took place. ...
04:49 PM, Aug 28, 2012
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
Chirang: The Assam riots at the end of last month left nearly 80 people dead and lakhs homeless. The real challenge now lies in rehabilitating those who were displaced. And helping them are young doctors, who assist the men, women and children afflicted with diseases in the camps. While children remain afflicted with diarrohea and fever, women suffer from leucorrhoea. There is also an alarming spike in cases of malaria,...
08:33 AM, Aug 27, 2012
