If records of the home ministry are any indicator, more than 18,000 militants have laid down arms since 2001 in Assam, but militancy remains a big issue.

In a tragic accident on an unmanned railway crossing, at least three people were killed and over 50 injured on Friday when a passenger train rammed into an earth-cutting vehicle on its track in Kamrup district of Assam.

In a significant development, the Union home ministry has banned the Garo National Liberation Army, a terrorist outfit of Garo Hills in Meghalaya, and declared it a terrorist outfit. The formal notification, which was sent to the state government on Wednesday, said that the Central government believes that the GNLA is involved in terrorism, therefore, exercising the powers conferred under the Section 35 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, the Central government has declared its formations and frontal organisation as terrorist organisation. The GNLA is the 36th separatist outfit in the country which has been banned by the home ministry.

A 22-year-old youth from Assam, Abhijit Baruah, on Tuesday staked claim for entry into the Guinness Book of World Records by completing a historic barefoot run for about 153 km within 24 hours.

Repolling may be ordered in 33 polling booths in five hill districts of Manipur that saw violence, Chief Electoral Officer P.C. Lawmkunga said on Tuesday.

He said the state election department had ma

The level of violence in trouble-torn north-eastern states may have come down but security agencies are seriously worried about the growing harmony among the separatist outfits of the region operating

In what has been an alarming development, a stray leopard on Friday created panic in Guwahati by injuring two people in the fourth incident of its kind in less than one month.

Amid a boycott call of 12 separatist outfits, including Ulfa, hundreds of people defied militant threat to take part in Republic Day’s celebrations in Assam and other northeastern states.

The Republic Day flag hoisting ceremony in Assam's Sonari town on Thursday was marred by the discovery of a bomb near the venue. It was diffused.

The incident happened in Upper Assam's Sivsagar distr

In what may be called a major achievement on the insurgency front, more than 1,600 militants of nine separatist groups here on Tuesday laid down arms to join the peace-talks in the presence of Union home minister P. Chidambram.