Bogged down by the charges of doing politics with alleged “secret killing” of Ulfa sympathisers and family members, the Assam government on Tuesday took a U-turn on chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s remark of “no evidence” and announced that the police may grill former chief minister and AGP president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta for his involvement into the secret killing during the AGP regime (1996-2001).

The CBI court on Monday convicted an ONGC deputy-superintending engineer (production) of four years rigorous imprisonment in a corruption case.

The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) hardliners here on Monday slammed the ruling Congress government and charged them of inventing the “secret killing” which others followed to suppress their struggle for freedom in the state.

A major air tragedy was averted and precious lives of at least 48 passengers onboard were saved when an Air India Flight made an emergency landing here at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport following a glitch in the landing gear on Sunday morning.

After the arrest of top Maoist ideologue Pallab Barbora, the security agencies have started a nation-wide hunt for a CPI (Maoist) central committee member who hails from Assam and was instrumental in

The National Investigation Agency here on Monday arrested a director of a private school at Merapani in Upper Assam’s Golaghat district for his alleged links with Maoists.

In what may be a major setback for the cooperative movements in the Northeast, the ministry of agriculture has decided to curtail fund for seven Central sector cooperative education projects, intended

A delegation of north-eastern states, comprising chief ministers of Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, called on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and stressed the need of reviving the age-old tie

A direct bus service between Silchar and Dhaka will begin soon, senior Assam minister Gautam Roy said.
Roy, who is on a private visit to Bangladesh, told PTI over phone that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina “will take steps to start the bus servive between Silchar and Dhaka”.

Production in five major tea-growing districts of Assam has been adversely affected due to non-supply of gas by Assam Gas Company Limited (AGCL) and the tea industry has urged the state government for immediate intervention in the matter.