
Kokrajhar: One person was on Wednesday arrested in Kokrajhar railway station for allegedly molesting a co-passenger on board the Dibrugarh-bound 2423 up Rajdhani Express. Accused Moinul Islam of Hojai was beaten up by an angry mob at the railway station for misbehaving with a lady travelling in the same train and allegedly molestating her, GRP sources said. Islam harassed his co-passenger, an engineer on her way back to Kokrajhar after...

08:03 PM, Jan 25, 2012

New Delhi: Security measures have been stepped up for the final phase of polling in Assam. This vital phase of the state elections will decide whether the Congress will manage a third straight victory or be dethroned by the Opposition alliance. 496 candidates are in the fray for 64 out of the total 126 Assembly Constituencies. For the 64 seats, BJP is contesting in 58, Trinamool Congress has 58 while...

07:27 AM, Apr 11, 2011

Shillong/Guwahati: At least eight BSF personnel were killed and the same number injured on Monday in an ambush by the anti-talk faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Assam's Kokrajhar district. According to official reports, the militants of the Ranjan Daimary-led faction used automatic weapons to ambush the convoy of the BSF in remote Ultapani forest area near the Indo-Bhutan border. A BSF spokesman, at the force's frontier headquarters...

08:17 AM, Mar 15, 2011

Pan Bazar, Bhangagarh, Ganeshguri and Hatigaon in Guwahati under curfew. ...

02:41 PM, Oct 30, 2008