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No fresh violence, PC will visit today
Union home minister P. Chidambaram will be on a two-day visit to Assam from Monday to review the law and order situation in the wake of largescale rioting in the state.
During his visit, the home min
Assam, Centre in blame-game over troops
A blame-game began between the Centre and the Assam government on Friday, less than 24 hours before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the strife-torn state, on allegations of delay in deploymen
PM’s helicopter returns to Guwahati due to technical problem
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's helicopter returned midway from a flight to strife-torn Kokrajhar district on Saturday due to a technical problem.
PM Manmohan Singh leaves for riot-hit Kokrajhar
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday left for Assam's violence-hit Kokrajhar district in an IAF helicopter after the previous chopper he was travelling in flew back here following a technical snag.
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.
This is a time for healing, PM tells Assam violence victims
Assuring that causes of the ethnic violence in lower Assam will be addressed, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday announced a Rs 300 crore relief package for the affected districts.
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Lack of food, water and medicines plague refugee camps
People rendered homeless due to clashes between Bodos and minority immigrants have alleged lack of sufficient food, drinking water and medicines in relief camps, a charge denied by authorities.
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Violence in Assam worst crisis for state govt: Gogoi
Describing the violence in the four Assam districts as the worst crisis his government has faced, chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday said 45 people had been killed and three lakh people rendered homeless till now.
Army would have stopped escalation of violence: Gogoi
As the situation in the riot-torn districts in lower Assam showed signs of improvement, Assam chief minister blamed the central government for sending the army late to the violence-hit districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri.
Centre rushes 2 medical teams to Assam
Centre on Friday rushed two teams of doctors and nurses to the riot-hit regions of Assam to complement the state government efforts to provide relief and medical help to people in relief camps.
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