Union minister of state for environment Jairam Ramesh who on Friday assured to apprise Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the concern of the people of Assam on construction of big dams in frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh, had to face stiff protest of anti-dam lobby and students organisations in Assam.

The Assam government is at the receiving end of judiciary, which caught them for misleading the court with wrong facts twice in a week.

BJP leader Varun Gandhi here on Wednesday said that the problem arising out of illegal migration from Bangladesh is no longer restricted to Assam alone, rather it has assumed the dimension of a nation

The special investigation cell, probing `1,000 crore hills transport subsidy scam of Arunachal Pradesh, on Tuesday claimed that money being siphoned off in the name of transporting the PDS items in the frontier state was also going to the coffer of the militant organisations of Assam and Nagaland.

BJP Mahila Morcha chief and TV actor Smriti Irani and her party workers were assaulted and harassed by Leftist leader in northearn Assam’s Sonitpur district on Tuesday.
BJP organising secretary P. Chandra Sekhar told this newspaper that incident took place near Balipara near Tezpur when Ms Irani with Mahila Morcha vice president S

In what has been seen as a major political development in the state’s political scenario, two-time former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta on Sunday bounced back as leader of the Opposition

In a dramatic development the director of the Star Cement Ltd who was reported to have been abducted by militants was released in the late evening in Shillong.

The enforcement directorate, probing the multi-crore rupees scam of North Cachar Hills district has found evidences of huge amount of government fund being siphoned off and transferred to Nepal and Si

In Assam, the largest amount of transport subsidy was allowed to be taken away by cement, coal and coke industries that has raised doubt over the role of the state governments, which remained a silent spectator to the virtual loot of the Central government incentives in the north-eastern states.

The defence ministry has cleared the decks for the deployment of two additional Indian Army mountain infantry divisions in the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh besides raising two battalions of Arunachal and Sikkim Scouts to counter a possible Chinese offensive on the Sino-Indian border.