The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has indicted the Assam government and the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC) for misappropriating an amount of `411.08 crores over the last thre

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to persuade China not to attempt to dam the Brahmaputra.
Referring to newspaper reports, Mr Gogoi told reporters, “I had raised my concern in 2005 itself as any dam on river Brahmaputra in China may have disastrous impact over the ecology of northeastern states.”

In what has been called revenge killing, the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland on Monday massacred at least 15 people, mostly Hindi and Bengali speaking, in four separate attacks in North

The security agencies are worried over the intelligence reports suggesting recruitment of new cadres by outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom in Assam.
Disclosing that even Ulfa leaders holding ceasefire are found to have been enrolling new cadres, authoritative security sources told this newspaper, “The most worrying input is from Upper Assam district where senior Ulfa cadres, at the directive of its commander-in chief Paresh Baruah, was trying hard to recruit new cadres to strengthen the outfit.”

When political leadership and executives are working overtime to release the jailed Ulfa leaders who were caught and evicted from Bangladesh, a woman judge of the designated Tada court in Assam is in focus for reminding the political leadership and executives of their responsibility towards the society while pointing out that collective interest of the society is more important than interest of an Ulfa leader.

An outbreak of cholera in North Assam’s tea garden belt has left at least 16 persons dead and over 150 others affected, state health department sources have confirmed.
Most of the deaths have been reported from six tea gardens of the Biswanath Chariali area of Sonitpur district.

Three persons were killed and several others wounded in police firing at Rangiya Tiniali on Saturday night after a group of youth belonging to the All-Bodo Minority Students Union (ABMSU) attacked and

In a significant development, two bail applications of Ulfa’s deputy commander-in chief Raju Baruah were rejected by Tada and Kamrup chief judicial magistrate courts separately on Tuesday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday submitted the second chargesheet in North Cachar Autonomous District Council but failed to nail even a single top-notch politician of the state accused of having nexus with Dimasa rebels.

As suspense continues to prevail over the nomination of Assam Congress president, hectic lobbying has started between two camps of Assam Congress, one led by chief minister Tarun Gogoi and the other b