Voting for the first phase of Assembly elections in Assam ended on Monday with an estimated 70 per cent polling recorded, officials said.

The high-voltage campaign for 62 Assembly constituencies in Assam going to the polls in the first phase on April 4 ended here on Saturday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing two rallies.

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A total of 981 candidates are in the fray for the 126 Assembly constituencies in Assam that go to polls in two phases on April 4 and 11.

While 485 hopefuls are in the race for 62 seats in the first p

Leaders of the banned Ulfa on Thursday met home minister P. Chidambaram as they began face-to-face unconditional talks with the Centre in an attempt to usher in peace in insurgency-hit Assam.

Shillong: Former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma’s cell number was allegedly used to cheat a bank employee and extract money from him in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district, police said today.
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At least three persons were seriously injured when Arunachal Express derailed at Dubia in Assam's Sonitpur districton Friday.

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.

Tinsukia (Assam): A tea garden owner, his son and four tea garden employees went missing after they were suspected to have been kidnapped from their garden in upper Assam's Tinsukia district, sources

Guwahati: Tribal separatists gunned down a woman and injured three people in Assam on Wednesday, continuing their attacks on Hindi speakers and minorities for the third straight day and taking the dea

Guwahati: In an overnight orgy of violence in Assam, the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland launched a coordinated strike killing 20 people, most of them Hindi speakers, and wounding eight