Three persons were injured in a clash between police and a stone pelting mob as police fired in the air to control them at Joypur during a 24-hour bandh called by the All Bodoland Minority Students Union (ABMSU) in Kokrajhar district today.

Defending champion Viswanathan Anand will have to fight it out in Rapid chess tiebreaker against challenger
Boris Gelfand after a tied 6-6 result in the World Chess Championship match here tomorrow.

UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday lauded the efforts of Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi to end insurgency and put the state on the path of development.

The National Investigation Agency here on Monday filed a chargesheet against three Manipur rebels, charging them of links with Maoists and supplying arms and ammunitions.

It is an “expedition to explore” for a 62-year-old car enthusiast from Kochi, who is attempting to cover around 25,000 km through the 28 states of India and neighbouring Bhutan in a Tata Nano car.

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An earthquake of moderate intensity shook Assam and rest of the Northeast on Friday but there was no immediate report of any casualty or damage to properties.

In what has confirmed the presence of the armed wing of the Maoists in Assam, security forces on Wednesday gunned down four top commanders of Maoist in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district.

After launching its arms wing in Assam, the Maoists are said to have been eyeing to strengthen their hold on chicken neck, a stretch of about 22 km area which connects Assam and Northeast to West Bengal and rest of the country.

Contrary to the claims of the home ministry, a study by the Intelligence Bureau has warned that the migration from Bangladesh was still going on which is not only a threat to the demography of the region but also posing a serious threat to the security of the nation.