The overall flood situation in Assam remained grim with the death toll rising to 122 and large scale destruction of infrastructure, cropland and wildlife reported from different parts of the state.

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A Congress councillor was arrested in connection with the attack on RTI activist and Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi while search was on for five others allegedly involved in the assault.

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RTI activist and Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi here on Friday was attacked and critically wounded by suspected youth Congress activists in lower Assam’s Nalbari district.

The ongoing infighting among the legislators and ministers of the ruling party in southern Assam’s Barrak Valley took an ugly turn on Friday when some miscreants set ablaze a temple at Maijgram in Kar

Presidential candidate of the UPA, Pranab Mukherjee, who arrived here on Friday said that All-India United Democratic Front and Bodoland Peoples Front have extended their support to his candidature.

The security agencies have noticed the movement of Burmese Army closer to the camps of Indian insurgent groups in Burma but it was not resorting to any kind of pressure to drive out the militants.

The Assam government has made an elaborate arrangement to pay last respect to music maestro Bhupen Hazarika, who breathed his last in a Mumbai hospital on Saturday.

The military commander of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland, Sonbjit Ingti, has bought at least 50 AK-47 and AK-56 rifles from outlawed Ulfa commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah in Burma

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Tuesday asked for inclusion of neighbouring countries of China, Bhutan, Burma and Bangladesh into proposed North East Water Resources Authority while regrettin

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Monday announced an ad-hoc financial package of `500 crore to flood-ravaged Assam while assuring to pay more after the official assessment of the damage.