Former chief minister and newly-appointed Leader of Opposition Prafulla Kumar Mahanta here on Saturday said that infighting within the rank and files of the party in past incurred a huge loss to the party which leaders have realised now. Asserting that the Congress took advantage of it and ruled the state for two consecutive terms, Mr Mahanta said that party leaders have recognised the past mistakes and given up all those differences to stand together.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi was accorded a grand welcome by his party workers on Friday, immediately after his arrival in Guwahati after being declared fit by doctors who performed three critical heart surgeries on him last month at the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai.

Union minister of state for environment Jairam Ramesh who on Friday assured to apprise Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the concern of the people of Assam on construction of big dams in frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh, had to face stiff protest of anti-dam lobby and students organisations in Assam.

The Assam government is at the receiving end of judiciary, which caught them for misleading the court with wrong facts twice in a week.

BJP leader Varun Gandhi here on Wednesday said that the problem arising out of illegal migration from Bangladesh is no longer restricted to Assam alone, rather it has assumed the dimension of a nation

The special investigation cell, probing `1,000 crore hills transport subsidy scam of Arunachal Pradesh, on Tuesday claimed that money being siphoned off in the name of transporting the PDS items in the frontier state was also going to the coffer of the militant organisations of Assam and Nagaland.

In what has been seen as a major political development in the state’s political scenario, two-time former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta on Sunday bounced back as leader of the Opposition

In a dramatic development the director of the Star Cement Ltd who was reported to have been abducted by militants was released in the late evening in Shillong.

The enforcement directorate, probing the multi-crore rupees scam of North Cachar Hills district has found evidences of huge amount of government fund being siphoned off and transferred to Nepal and Si

In Assam, the largest amount of transport subsidy was allowed to be taken away by cement, coal and coke industries that has raised doubt over the role of the state governments, which remained a silent spectator to the virtual loot of the Central government incentives in the north-eastern states.