A day after Union home minister P. Chidambaram assured a CBI probe in the alleged suicide of Dana Silva M. Sangma if necessary, Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma on Thursday wrote to his Haryana counterpart, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, asking that the probe be handed over to CBI.

A day after Union home minister P. Chidambaram assured a CBI probe in the alleged suicide of Dana Silva M. Sangma if necessary, Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma on Thursday wrote to his Haryana counterpart, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, asking that the probe be handed over to CBI.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi with Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi and PCC chief Bhuwneswar Kalita visited the boat accident site at Medartari in Western Assam’s Dhubri district on Wednesday.

Search operations are on for more than a hundred people who are still missing after a crowded steamer carrying more than 300 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra river in Assam on Monday after being caught in a severe storm.

Security sources confirmed the recovery of 103 bodies after a crowded steamer capsized in the middle of the Brahmaputra river in western Assam’s Dhubri district on Mon-day. Around 50 people were still missing, they said.

Assam Congress president Bhuwneswar Kalita here on Monday ruled out the possibility of change in leadership in the state while threatening to take stern action against Assam Youth Congress president Pijush Hazarika for his remarks against a minister in public.

The Maoist movement in Assam has entered into its second phase with formation of its armed wing.
Disclosing that the outfit has extended its cadre strength to more than 100, authoritative security sources told this newspaper that weapons of AK series, carbines, rifles, pistols and grenade launchers have been added to the armoury of the Maoist armed wing in Assam.

Emulating his West Bengal counterpart Mamta Banerjee, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Monday announced launching of a television channel to project the government’s activities and take on the

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived here on Friday amidst the boycott and bandh call of Ulfa hardliners, described himself a migrant who got shelter in Assam.

In a touching and emotional spee

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Friday called upon the militant groups of the north-eastern states to join the democratic process for all-round development of Assam.