Driven by rumours of impending attacks, the exodus of people from the north-east spread from Bengaluru to neighbouring cities on the third day on Friday, prompting the Centre to ban for 15 days bulk S

Ethnic violence that has rocked parts of lower Assam on Thursday spread to a new district where incidents of arson were reported, forcing the Army to stage a flag march.

Appealing to students and people from Assam living in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh not to panic, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said on Thursday said that unidentified forces were fomenting violence in lo

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.

Fear-struck people from the northeast continued to flee the city for the second day on Thursday as the Karnataka government assured them safety and launched confidence building measures, including police patrolling in areas largely inhabited by them.

Andhra Pradesh Police on Thursday claimed there was no mass exodus of people from the north-east living in the State capital and sought to allay their fears about safety and security.

Anurag Sharma,

The MMS depicting purported footage of violence in Assam, which was in circulation in the city for the last few days, was bogus, police said here on Thursday.

The police also said that no untoward in

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to brief him about the violence in Mumbai following protests against Assam riots.

Chavan met the Prime Minis

Altogether 2,92,852 inmates are currently living in 228 relief camps in four trouble-torn districts of lower Assam, while 10,636 inmates having left the camps during the last 24 hours.

In Kokrajhar,

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will make her first visit on Monday to riot-hit Assam, almost three weeks after it was affected by ethnic violence that left 77 people dead.