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
Tension is back in Kokrajhar in Assam. Supporters of sitting MLA Pradeep Brahma, who has been arrested and charged with arson and violence in the riots - have blocked railway tracks demanding his release. ...
08:50 PM, Aug 23, 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
Chirang: Tired, traumatised, malnourished and sick - the children of conflict in Assam's relief camps are living in constant fear. Five-year-old Phulmala is hopes to return to her village one day. She still has her house keys hung around her neck. She says she has been wearing the same frock for a month. "Our house is burnt. Our cattle is gone. We only get to eat rice and dal." The...
07:54 AM, Aug 23, 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
Guwahati: A central team on Tuesday visited the violence affected Dhubri district of Assam to take stock of the security and relief and rehabilitation measures taken up by the district administration for the people living in relief camps. The seven-member team that included Shambhu Singh, secretary (northeast) in the union home ministry, and other senior officials drawn from various departments and ministries, is scheduled to visit violence-affected areas of Kokrajhar...
03:20 AM, Aug 22, 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
New Delhi: As the nation celebrates Eid on Monday, riot-hit Assam is on high alert. Security has been stepped up across the state, especially in the sensitive districts of Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Chirang that witnessed a spate of clashes between the Bodo tribal groups and Muslims at the end of last month. While the actual reason for the sudden breakout of violence in the lower regions of Assam is unknown,...
06:56 AM, 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
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: Curfew in the Rangiya sub-division of Kamrup Rural district was relaxed on Friday as no incident of fresh violence was reported from any part of Assam. "Curfew has been relaxed in Rangiya from 9 am to 3 pm. The situation is under control," Assam Inspector General of Police (Law & Order) LR Bishnoi told PTI. He said police and security forces are maintaining a strict vigil in Rangiya, as...
11:55 AM, Aug 17, 2012
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday appealed to students and people from Assam and other parts of the Northeast to refrain from rushing back to their home states in panic. "I appeal to students and other persons especially those who are in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, that they should not get panicked and (not) rush back. Rumour mongering is on, but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has personally talked...
02:31 PM, Aug 16, 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
Independent India turns 65 but there is not much to celebrate for at least four lakh people living in relief camps in Assam's Kokhrajar and Dhubri districts. ...
05:59 PM, Aug 14, 2012
