Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said that the Maoists’ presence in Assam has the potential to grow into a major threat in the state.

Intelligence Bureau additional director R.N. Behura, who had suffered serious injuries in a road accident on April 9, died here on Sunday.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Friday rejected the charges of defending officers who have been summoned by the special court Assam to depose on April 20 for their alleged involvement into mu

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has detected 15 cases of fraudulent withdrawal of more than `54 crores in the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC) between 2007 and 2009 fis

In what may be called a major breakthrough on insurgency front, the top commanders of outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland holed up in Burma and Bangladesh has given their consent in writing to join the peace-process which may also facilitate the release of its chief Ranjan Daimary on bail from judicial custody in Assam.

The militant outfits are suspected to have been using women and anti-social elements to carry out extortion and kidnappings by outsourcing responsibility of picking up the target and serving the demand notes in Assam.

The outlawed Ulfa here on Wednesday admitted to have served extortion notice to chairman of St. Luke’s Hospital N. Stephen Nag.

The unified command of security forces in Assam has decided to launch joint operations with its counterpart in Meghalaya to contain the activities of outlawed Ulfa in western Assam and Karbi Peoples L

The outlawed Ulfa here on Saturday threatened to blow up transmission towers of mobile companies who are alleged to have been sharing call records of their sympathisers with security agencies in Assam. In a statement sent on email to this newspaper, the Ulfa spokesman alleged that the Army and the police on the basis of call details given by mobile companies, are arresting all those people with whom they contacted on their mobile.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday presented a Rs 293.44 crore deficit budget for fiscal 2012-13 which envisages a growth rate of 12.5 per cent with focus on education, health and agriculture sector.