With both the ruling Congress and Opposition confident of forming the next government in Assam, the Election Commission of India has completed preparation for a free and fair counting of votes for 126 constituencies at 48 counting centres across the state. Disclosing that three-tier security arrangements have been made to ensure

Set to retain power for the third consecutive term, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said bringing all insurgents groups, including the Ulfa, to the negotiating table would be his main priority to ensure lasting peace in the state.

Credited with bringing insurgent group Ulfa to the negotiating table and hauling Assam back from the brink of bankruptcy, chief minister Tarun Gogoi has combined administrative and political acumen with his simple demeanour to help Congress retain power for a record consecutive third term.

The Congress is all set to form the government in Assam for the third straight term with the main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reduced to smithereens with even their respective party presidents losing the polls.

Even after directive of the Supreme Court to set up 71 new special CBI courts in the country including two in Assam, more than 150 corruption cases of CBI are pending for trial due to non-appointment of a regular judge in the existing special CBI court in Assam.

The exit polls predicting an impressive hat-trick for the ruling Congress Party have failed to discourage the Opposition Asom Gana Parishad, BJP and AIUDF in working out strategy for a non-Congress government in Assam.

Former chief minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta here on Tuesday said that many IAS officers, who were pro-actively involved in the misrule of the Congress Party, are seeking to flee the state by taking deputation outside the state.

In a significant development, the pro-talk faction of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) has agreed to give up the demand of sovereignty besides indicating to fight for greater autono

All-India United Democratic Front president Badruddin Ajmal, who had a closed door meeting with former chief minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, announced that ideology was not at all any

With swearing in of Jarbom Gamlin as the new chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, hectic lobbying has started among legislators to retain their status in the new council of ministers likely to be announced after the funeral of late chief minister Dorjee Khandu on May 11.