Nine injured in fresh violence in Kokrajhar
Fresh violence gripped this trouble-torn Assam district leaving at least nine seriously injured while unrest spread to Kamrup (rural) which reported arson and police firing on Thursday.
Home minister Chidambaram visits riot-hit Kokrajhar
Union home minister P Chidambaram on Monday met victims of ethnic violence in a camp for refugees in Assam's strife-torn Kokrajhar district and assured them of all possible assistance.
Initial difficulties in controlling Assam violence, says PM
Noting that there were 'initial difficulties' in controlling the violence in Assam's BTAD and Dhubri districts, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said both the Centre and state government would take measures to normalise the situation and provide a healing touch to victims.
Assam Death toll rises to 44; situation improving, claims CM
Clashes between Bodos and minority immigrants in four Assam districts continued for the seventh day on Thursday, leaving 44 people dead even as chief minister Tarun Gogoi insisted the situation was 'improving' and rapped the media for portraying the state as 'burning'.
Scattered violence continues in Assam, CM visits Kokrajhar
Scattered violence continued for the sixth day on Thursday in riot-torn lower Assam districts where one person was killed in police firing while four persons were injured in an attack by a group of persons in Baksa district.
Assam violence claims 40 lives
Clashes between minority immigrants and Bodo tribals continued unabated as the toll in the ethnic violence shot up to 40 today with the recovery of eight more bodies even as the Centre asked the Assam
Assam violence claims 32 lives, 1,500 more jawans sent
Ethnic violence on Tuesday escalated in more areas of western Assam with 11 fresh casualties in clashes and police firing, forcing the Centre to rush 1,500 more paramilitary personnel to control the u
Assam toll rises to 19, Rajdhani Express stopped in Kokrajhar
Two more bodies were recovered on Monday taking the toll to 19 in the violence in Assam's Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts (BTAD), as the Rajdhani Express was stopped by protestors in Kokra
DIG injured in mob attack, toll rises to 12
Violence escalated in trouble-torn Kokrajhar district on Sunday with a senior DIG rank police official and three others injured in mob attack prompting police to fire in self-defence, while the death
Three injured in police-mob clash
Three persons were injured in a clash between police and a stone pelting mob as police fired in the air to control them at Joypur during a 24-hour bandh called by the All Bodoland Minority Students Union (ABMSU) in Kokrajhar district today.