The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has indicted the Assam government and the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC) for misappropriating an amount of `411.08 crores over the last thre

Assam opposition leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the process that led to the signing of MoU for construction of mega-dams in Arunachal Pradesh.

Twelve people — 11 from the Air Force and an Army lieutenant-colonel, were killed Friday as an IAF Mi-17 helicopter crashed following a blast on board near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. The dead include two IAF flight lieutenants.

An adult tigress has been found dead at Agratoli range of Kaziranga National Park in Assam, the fourth such incident in this month in the sanctuary.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to persuade China not to attempt to dam the Brahmaputra.
Referring to newspaper reports, Mr Gogoi told reporters, “I had raised my concern in 2005 itself as any dam on river Brahmaputra in China may have disastrous impact over the ecology of northeastern states.”

In what has been called revenge killing, the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland on Monday massacred at least 15 people, mostly Hindi and Bengali speaking, in four separate attacks in North

Music maestro Bhupen Hazarika and his companion Kalpana Lajmi are mired in a blazing controversy in Assam after images of the 85-year-old ailing singer being taken in a chair to the banks of the Brahm

The security agencies are worried over the intelligence reports suggesting recruitment of new cadres by outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom in Assam.
Disclosing that even Ulfa leaders holding ceasefire are found to have been enrolling new cadres, authoritative security sources told this newspaper, “The most worrying input is from Upper Assam district where senior Ulfa cadres, at the directive of its commander-in chief Paresh Baruah, was trying hard to recruit new cadres to strengthen the outfit.”

When political leadership and executives are working overtime to release the jailed Ulfa leaders who were caught and evicted from Bangladesh, a woman judge of the designated Tada court in Assam is in focus for reminding the political leadership and executives of their responsibility towards the society while pointing out that collective interest of the society is more important than interest of an Ulfa leader.

Two years after serial bombings in Assam killed nearly 100 people and injured around 800, victims are still seething with anger as those behind the attack are still unpunished and the compensation pro