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Karbi breakaway rebels kill 1

With the home ministry preparing to sign a peace-accord with two dominant separatists groups UPDS and KLNLF, a fledgling rag-tag group of armed rebels Karbi Peoples Liberation Tigers has launched offe

12 militant outfits call I-Day boycott

Twelve militant groups of northeast on Thursday called upon the people of the region to boycott the Independence Day celebration in Assam and other northeastern states.

Bomb found in Assam train, defused

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A passenger train carrying about 500 people had a miraculous escape in Assam on Friday when police seized a powerful bomb from one of the coaches.

Ulfa chief rejects demands charter

If the pro-talk faction of the Ulfa, led by its chairman Arbinda Rajkhowa, has started spilling the beans by authenticating inputs of security agencies on Ulfa’s nexus with Pakistan’s ISI, the hardlin

Man beheads wife over ‘extra-martial affair’

A man allegedly beheaded his wife for an ‘extra-martial affair’ and then surrendered to the police in Assam's Dibrugarh district.

Polit Paik (35) of Sessa Maoidamoni village under Barbaruah police st

Dhaka set to deport Ulfa’s Chetia soon

Union home ministry sources told this newspaper Wednesday that the Bangladesh government had started the process of handing over detained Ulfa leader Anup Chetia, confirming reports in Dhaka that he had been

Assam artist gets Guinness recognition

A youth in Assam has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the longest scratch art piece.

"It took me 12 hours to complete the piece measuring 20.30 metres in length and 1.4 m

5 die, 20 hurt in Manipur blast

In what is said to be the first major offensive after the unification of at least seven separatist groups of Manipur, five people lost their lives and more than 20 were left injured when a powerful im

Ministry mulls pvt funding for Manas

In what has been seen as an attempt to maintain the world heritage site, ministry of environment and forest is going to embark upon its ambitious plan to involve corporate houses to fund conservation

Lokayukta is a ‘toothless tiger’ in Assam

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi may claim to have Lokayukta to check corruption but it is nothing more than a toothless tiger as Lokayukta has neither been authorised to register a case suo moto nor have government servants been allowed to lodge complaints. Advocating amendments in the Assam Lokayukta and

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