Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said at Guwahati on Saturday there was considerable improvement in the law and order situation in the state over the past 12 years. He added that the government has been able to bring almost all insurgent outfits to the negotiating table.
Gogoi completed his second year as chief minister for the third consecutive term Saturday.
He said that while 412 civilians were killed due to insurgency-related incidents in 2000 in Assam, only 39 civilians were killed in the state due to insurgency in 2012.
"Only eight people have been killed in insurgency-related incidents in Assam this year. The number of civilian causality has reduced, which this is a good sign," Gogoi said, and added that the development works initiated by the government helped containing insurgency....
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05:42 AM, May 19, 2013
Guwahati: The Assam government might take up the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) throughout the state, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said on Thursday. Meeting a delegation of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU), which made the request, Gogoi said this will be considered subject to approval from the central government. The AASU delegation had also sought the updating be completed before the Lok Sabha elections in...
05:30 AM, May 17, 2013
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)...
05:33 PM, May 13, 2013
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to increase the number of foreigners' tribunals in the state from the existing 36 to 100. Gogoi met the prime minister at the latter's residence in New Delhi on Wednesday and appealed to increase the number of tribunals as the existing ones are inadequate to dispose of the large number of pending cases, leading to harassment of genuine...
05:55 AM, May 09, 2013
The Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, has hinted at a CBI probe into Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen's allegations against his health minister. ...
10:21 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma on Thursday denied all allegations against him in the West Bengal chit fund scam and said that he was ready for a probe. Sharma had been named by Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen in his 18-page letter to the CBI dated April 6. In his letter, Sudipta had mentioned Sharma as having received money from him. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has...
04:36 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Guwahati: The Saradha chit fund scam also stretches to Assam. Saradha promoter Sudipta Sen's explosive letter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) brings Assam Health and Education Minister and a former DGP under scrutiny. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has hinted at a CBI enquiry, but says his minister will not quit till proven guilty. The 18-page letter written by Sudipta Sen alleges a prominent Assam cabinet minister Himanta...
10:27 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said on Wednesday that he will order a probe in the chit fund scam after a Saradha group employee alleged that a state minister had close links with the company. The employee, Diban Deka, said that Assam Health and Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had ties with the group. Deka, who worked for the group's Bangla daily Sakalbela, published from Guwahati, also alleged...
11:12 PM, Apr 24, 2013
A bullet ridden body of a Rhinoceros with its horn removed has been found at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. ...
09:33 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Dubbing the violence in Assam's Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council (RHAC) areas as a 'political conspiracy', Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday accused opposition parties of encouraging the perpetrators. "There are political forces who are instigating them. But I do not want to name them," Gogoi told reporters here. ...
05:39 PM, Feb 13, 2013
BJP has accused the ruling Congress in Assam of being involved in "siphoning off" money allotted for development projects under the 'Panchayati Raj' system during the past 11 years. Though the Panchayati raj system is for the rural development, it has not happened during the last 11 years of Congress regime as the ruling party indulged in mismanagement and corruption instead of undertaking projects, state BJP President Sarbananda Sonowal claimed....
05:35 PM, Jan 20, 2013
A teenager was injured when a detonator he was carrying home exploded near Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's official residence at Koinadhora in Guwahati on Saturday. ...
05:52 PM, Dec 29, 2012
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday announced that 30 per cent state government jobs will be reserved for candidates belonging to rural areas from 2013 end. ...
04:05 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Listing the steps his government have taken to curb infiltration from Bangladesh, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday asserted he had raised the issue with the neighbouring country's leaders during his visit to Dhaka in 2011. ...
01:06 AM, Dec 04, 2012
Coming out in favour of Centre's decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday said entry of big multinational companies would benefit local farmers. ...
03:58 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Assam government has launched a special drive to seize illegal arms allegedly being kept by different groups in some areas, including Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). ...
01:05 AM, Nov 30, 2012
Guwahati: The alliance between the Congress and Bodoland Peoples' Front (BPF) which runs the administration in Assam's troubled Bodoland will continue, party general secretary Digvijaya Singh said on Tuesday amid reports of strain in ties over the arrest of a local council member. The BPF is in power in Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) - that runs administration in the four Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD). Singh arrived in Guwahati to...
02:30 AM, Nov 21, 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
Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called up Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi late on Thursday evening to discuss law and order situation in violence hit Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts (BTAD) where two person was killed taking the toll to five since November 10. Gogoi gave the Prime Minister, who is a Rajya Saba MP from the state, a detailed account of the situation and steps taken to control the violence....
06:04 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called up Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday evening to discuss law and order situation in violence hit Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts (BTAD) where one person was killed taking the toll to six since November 10. Gogoi gave the Prime Minister, who is a Rajya Saba MP from the state, a detailed account of the situation and steps taken to control the violence, official...
01:40 AM, Nov 16, 2012
