Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has directed Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to do everything possible to control the situation in Kokrajhar and Chirang following violence in the areas. Nearly 50,000 people have fled their homes in around 400 villages across Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Chirang districts. The death toll in the violence has now gone up to 21. The government has set up 42 relief camps. Meanwhile, train services have...
02:14 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Kokrajhar: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday said that the situation in Kokrajhar was still tense and the state government was trying its best to control it. The violence in the Kokrajhar region of Assam has shown no sign of ending with the death toll up to 21. An estimated 50,000 refugees have taken shelter in relief camps so far, while those affected in the violence are said to...
10:35 AM, Jul 24, 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
Kokrajhar: After three days of communal violence which have left 19 people dead, shoot-at-sight orders are in place in Kokrajhar, Assam. Close to 36,000 people are homeless in the wake of the violence. Helpless, panic-stricken villagers in the Kokrajhar are fleeing their homes in search of security and shelter. The root cause of the communal violence still remains unexplained. There are some reports of land encroachment problems, some of outsiders...
06:21 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Guwahati: Fresh incidents of arson in interior areas of Kokrajhar district were reported on Monday leading to shoot-at-sight orders, indefinite curfew and flag march by Army even as the toll in the ethnic violence Assam rose to 21. Police said four more bodies were recovered during the day from Kokrajhar district. Of the total 21 deaths, Kokrajhar accounted for 17 while neighbouring four persons died in Chirang district, to where...
11:22 PM, Jul 23, 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
Kokrajhar: Fresh clashes and arson were reported from the Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts (BTAD) where two more bodies were recovered on Monday taking the toll to 19 in the ethic violence. The bodies were recovered from the banks of Gouranga river on Monday morning, police said. People stopped the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express at Pratapkhat between Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon alleging that their houses were damaged by miscreants when they moved to...
06:59 PM, Jul 23, 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
New Delhi: The death toll in the riots at Assam's Kokrajhar district has now reached 17. 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, was stoned to death by unidentified persons in Narabari area of Kokrajhar Road, the sources said. Four cadres of former insurgent outfit Bodo Liberation Tigers were shot dead by unidentified...
06:58 AM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: Curfew has been imposed and the Army deployed in the town of Kokrajhar, Assam, after nine people including one woman were killed and 15 others were injured in clashes between two groups. Prohibitory orders have been issued as well. The situation in the town is said to be tense. A 14-year-old boy, Zakir Ali, was stoned to death by unidentified persons in Narabari area of Kokrajhar Road, the...
06:14 AM, Jul 22, 2012
Guwahati: Nine persons were killed and 15 others injured in attacks and counter attacks by two communities in Kokrajhar town as curfew was clamped on Saturday and the army deployed. Three Bodos including a woman were shot dead and seven others injured at Paroura under Fakiragram police station, official sources said. A 60-year-old man Shahadat Hussain was killed and four others injured in firing in Duramari area under Kokrajhar police...
08:42 PM, Jul 21, 2012
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. ...
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