Before giving their consent for talks, the jailed Ulfa leaders are said to have prepared a blue print for launching a new political outfit that would be acting as an alternative to the regional Asom Gana Parishad in Assam.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said here on Sunday that the pro-talks faction of Ulfa leaders, including chairman Arbinda Rajkhowa, was prepared to start peace talks with the government.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Sunday said that the pro-talks faction of Ulfa leaders, including its chairman Arbinda Rajkhowa, are prepared for starting the peace talks with the government.

Assam has registered a significant jump in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS which has also made it vulnerable to be categorised as a high risk region. Disclosing that state’s proximity with Manipur, a very critical state in term of HIV/AIDS was the most worrying factor, Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told

As the ongoing indefinite economic blockade on National Highway 39, called by several Naga groups, enters 60th day on Wednesday, the frontier state of Manipur has started reeling under the acute shortage of food, medicines and other essential supplies like cooking gas, diesel and patrol.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Tuesday stressed the need of making education compulsory for all the children announced that his government would be taking initiatives soon for the development of children in tea garden, riverine (char) and tribal areas where a large number of the kids are deprived of the right to education.

In what has set the alarm bells ringing for Northeastern states, the Eastern Regional Bureau, a command of Maoists has been entrusted with the additional responsibility of intensifying activities of t

In what may be a major step in opening up proposed land route between the north-eastern states and neighbouring Southeast Asian countries, the Centre, in principle, has agreed to start bus services between Guwahati and Dhaka through Daowki border in Meghalaya.

The Election Commission of India is contemplating to replicate the innovative idea of live feed of polling process through the Internet demonstrated by the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh during the 2009 parliamentary and Assembly polls.

After meeting jailed Ulfa leaders at the behest of Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, the convenor of “peoples convention for revival of talks with Ulfa” claimed that jailed leaders of the outfit may respond positively to the feelers of the Assam government to resolve the conflict through talks.