‘BTC leaders agreed to take back refugees’
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Thursday said that leaders of Bodoland Territorial Council have agreed to start the rehabilitation process of all the genuinely displaced people back to their
Assam: 7 more bodies found, bandhs banned
While trouble-torn Bodoland Territorial Council areas returning to normal, polarisation against immigrants has intensified outside BTC areas and Upper Assam districts. Hundreds in Upper Assam’s Jorhat took out a huge march urging residents not to hire Bangladeshi workers.
Anti-immigrant call drowns Assam
While trouble-torn Bodoland Territorial Council areas are now returning to normal, polarisation against immigrants has intensified outside BTC areas and Upper Assam districts.
Hundreds of people in
Assam: 2 dead, 30 injured in fresh violence
Violence and arson continued to rock Assam on Tuesday with a 12-hour bandh called by the All-Assam Minority Students’ Union turning violent in Barpeta, Goalpara, Sonitpur and Nagaon districts, outside the Bodoland Territorial Council, resulting in the death of a 55-year-old person and injuries to 30 others. Another person was killed and five others injured in sporadic incidents of violence in trouble-torn BTC area on Monday night.
Ulfa threatens to target outsiders
The anti-talks faction of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom here on Sunday held the Congress and BJP responsible for communal unrest in Assam and threatened to attack non-Assamese populace
Row with CM ends, mantri back at work
The 10-day-long standoff between Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi and his health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma came to an end on Saturday with the minister resuming duty following the intervention of the AICC.
Kokrajhar erupts again, 7 more killed in Assam
Violence flared up afresh in Assam’s Kokrajhar region on Saturday, with an armed mob killing five people in Chirnag district, under the Bodoland Territorial Council, and two other bodies being recovered in south Assam’s Dhemaji district.
Fresh violence breaks out in Assam
Violence flared up afresh in Assam’s Kokrajhar region on Saturday, with an armed mob killing five people in Chirang district, under the Bodoland Territorial Council, and two other bodies being recover
2 die in fresh Assam violence
In what is suspected to be an attempt to discourage refugees from returning to the Bodoland Territorial Council, suspected armed rebels on Wednesday shot dead two labourers and injured the owner of a brick kiln in Western Assam’s Dhubri district.
Ex-rebels with arms worry MHA
The home ministry is extremely worried about the presence of more than 500 illegal weapons in the hands of pro-talk faction of militant outfits and former rebels in Assam.