Locals in this silk village in Assam claimed that local weavers, who use looms for weaving, are losing employment because of machine-made products while silkworm rearing has become extinct due to the lack of a market for the expensive silk. The weavers accused the state government and local MLA and minister Himanta Biswa Sarama of not helping the weavers as their designs too were stolen.

The population of rhinos has grown in the latest census, which concluded in the Kaziranga National Park on Monday, bringing relief to the Assam forest department.

The elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah is under pressure with the Burmese Army contemplating offensive to oblige and fulfil its commitment to India to drive out Indian insurgent groups from its territory.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday said that a powerful lobby of non-banking financial institutions and gutkha companies are working against him.

In what may give rise to fresh problem in Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), the Gauhati high court has passed an order directing the deletion of 17 villages from core area of Bodoland Territorial Ar

In what is being seen as an attempt to expose the conspiracy of his health minister to give relief to the non-smoking tobacco producing companies by trying to bring in a separate bill, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Saturday said that he instructed ban on non-smoking tobacco under the provisions of a Central act.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Thursday announced that he was not going to resign under any pressure while attributing his success in making Assam a fastest growing state of country to Congr

Bogged down by growing anti-party activities of a section of Congress legislators, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Wednesday said that he would be talking to party high command in this regard very soon.

The home ministry has started preparation for the next round of talks with pro-talk Ulfa at the home secretary level on March 7 in New Delhi.

The Lt. Col. posted as the defence PRO in Imphal Ajay Choudhury was on the radar of women vigilante groups — Meira Paibi of Manipur — which on Sunday first raided his convoy of three vehicles ferrying drugs estimated to be worth between `15-30 crore to the Indo-Burma border.