The transaction audit report of the Comptroller-and-Auditor-General on North Cachar Hills Autonomous District Council has exposed serious financial irregularities of more than `300 crores in between January 2007 and June 9, 2010 in Assam.

The Assam government has decided to allow the release of three jailed Ulfa leaders on bail in order to prepare a ground for the proposed peace-talks with outlawed Ulfa. Disclosing that the release of Ulfa’s deputy commander-in-chief Raju Baruah, cultural secretary Pranati Deka and political ideologue Bhimkanta Buragohain (70) has

With everyone waiting for the Congress high command’s decision on appointment of PCC chief, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday gave a new twist to it by advocating elections for the appointmen

At least 20 militants of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) and their family members were arrested by security forces in Bangladesh in renewed crackdown by Dhaka on anti-India separat

In a decision that could affect state politics, the main Opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Monday decided to snap its election alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

With Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Bhubaneswar Kalita lobbying for a fresh term, his detractor and ailing chief minister Tarun Gogoi is not leaving any stone unturned to turn the tables o

If records of interest being generated over the loan taken by the Assam government are any indicator, the state may soon emerge as the biggest defaulter to the financial institution.

Former chief minister and newly-appointed Leader of Opposition Prafulla Kumar Mahanta here on Saturday said that infighting within the rank and files of the party in past incurred a huge loss to the party which leaders have realised now. Asserting that the Congress took advantage of it and ruled the state for two consecutive terms, Mr Mahanta said that party leaders have recognised the past mistakes and given up all those differences to stand together.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi was accorded a grand welcome by his party workers on Friday, immediately after his arrival in Guwahati after being declared fit by doctors who performed three critical heart surgeries on him last month at the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai.