In what has created sensation across the state, a government school teacher and short-story writer Jahanvi Mahanta Rajkonwar has deserted her family — her husband and two children — to join the Ulfa.

The home ministry has asked Assam and other north-eastern states to intensify vigil on activities of Left wing insurgent group, following the reports of a Maoist’s central committee member visiting Assam.

Former home secretary G.K. Pillai here on Monday said that wife and children of elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah are keen to come back to Assam, but Baruah was stopping them from coming.

In what may be called an attempt of enhancing trust between the anti-talk faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and New Delhi, the peace interlocutor for the Northeast militant groups P.C. Haldar had an informal meeting with NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary inside central jail here on Friday.

When the state government is boasting of improving the condition of poor by pumping in massive fund in rural and health sector, at least 10 garden workers are reported to have died of starvation and l

The prime focus of elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah is to discredit the pro-talk faction of Ulfa holding talks with the government through its campaign in media and by establishing contact with leader

After Uttar Pradesh, it is the turn of Assam where massive irregularities — running into several crores of rupees — in purchasing Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Bed Net (LLIN) under National Rural H

If records of the home ministry are any indicator, more than 18,000 militants have laid down arms since 2001 in Assam, but militancy remains a big issue.

In a tragic accident on an unmanned railway crossing, at least three people were killed and over 50 injured on Friday when a passenger train rammed into an earth-cutting vehicle on its track in Kamrup district of Assam.

In a significant development, the Union home ministry has banned the Garo National Liberation Army, a terrorist outfit of Garo Hills in Meghalaya, and declared it a terrorist outfit. The formal notification, which was sent to the state government on Wednesday, said that the Central government believes that the GNLA is involved in terrorism, therefore, exercising the powers conferred under the Section 35 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, the Central government has declared its formations and frontal organisation as terrorist organisation. The GNLA is the 36th separatist outfit in the country which has been banned by the home ministry.