Panic prevailed in north-eastern states as two earthquakes of moderate intensity rocked Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura on Sunday.

In what is alleged to be the fallout of provocation of a senior minister, Congress MLA Rumi Nath and her second husband Jaki Zakir, whom she married recently, were assaulted by a mob, which cornered the couple in a hotel in Assam’s Karimganj on Friday night.

Presidential candidate P.A. Sangma on Saturday launched his campaign here by making an appeal to members of the electoral college to exercise their conscience vote cutting across party lines.

The home ministry on Friday discussed two burning problem of migration from Bangladesh and floods with pro-talk faction of Ulfa which asked New Delhi to bring in accountability and transparency in tac

The flood situation continued to be grim in Assam with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asking defence minister A.K.

The home ministry has asked the pro-talk faction of Ulfa to designate a senior cadre of the outfit for sending him to Dhaka to meet top Ulfa leader and general secretary Anup Chetia who is under prote

If intercepts of security agencies are any indicator, the elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah is trying to transfer a huge amount of money stashed somewhere outside Burma.

The Union home ministry has issued an alert to the Mumbai police and Orissa government of a possible terror attack by Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) modules in the next few weeks.

The Assam police is going to raise a specialised force, which will be known as “Assam police rangers” to tackle militancy and alarming growth of Maoist in the state.

The Assam police has embarked on an ambitious plan of task analysis of its forces to identify the gap in knowledge, skill and attitude of its policemen in handling the situation.