Darrang Superintendent of Police Sushanta Biswa Sarma, a younger brother of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, claimed the protesters, armed with sharp weapons, pelted the police personnel and others present with stones.
Two more persons succumbed to gunshot wounds in Assam's Guwahati, taking the toll in police firing during violent protests against the citizenship law to four, officials said on Sunday.
Guwahati: Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag will hold a closed-door strategy meeting with senior army officials here to review the prevailing situation in Assam where 81 people have been killed following attacks by NDFB(S)
New Delhi: Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag will today review the situation in Assam where NDFB(S) militants carried out a deadly attack on tribals leaving over 80 dead.Singh will first visit Guwahati and then
Guwahati: The toll rose to 78 today in attacks by NDFB(S) and retaliatory violence in lower Assam with Adivasis setting afire houses of Bodos as the backlash to the Tuesday massacre continued for the second
New Delhi: In the aftermath of Bodo militants killing 71 people, Adivasis in Assam's Chirang district killed two Bodos.The Adivasis also torched a Bodo village in Kokrajhar district, reports say, adding that the two Bodos
Golaghat/Jorhat: Three persons were killed and six injured in police firing in Assam's Golaghat town today when a mob tried to set ablaze the deputy commisioner's office and a police station and targetted a hospital,
Golaghat: At least 18 protesters were injured after police fired rubber pellets and resorted to lathicharge at Rangajan in violence-hit Golaghat district of Assam along Nagaland this evening, a senior police officer said.District Superintendent of
Bhangarpar (Assam): When Halima Khatun jumped into the Beki river with her five-month-old child to save his life from terrorists, she never thought it was the last time she was holding her child.“Everywhere there was
New Delhi: BJP today hit back at Congress for blaming Narendra Modi for the violence in Assam, saying it was an outcome of “politics of divisiveness and blood” on which Congress had harvested “too many
New Delhi: The Centre today made available additional forces to violence-hit Assam as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the “cowardly” terror attack and promised all measures to restore peace there.Singh, who is keeping a close
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today condemned the “cowardly” terror attack in Assam that has claimed several lives and said the Centre will take all measures to maintain law and order and restore peace
New Delhi, Aug 4: As violence continues to rock parts of Assam in support of demands for separate states, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday ruled out further division of his state saying people there want
New Delhi, Nov 16: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called up Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to discuss the law and order situation in the State after clashes in Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon, where six people have
Kochi, Sep 13: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the recent violence in Assam and its reverberations in other parts have brought out “worrying faultlines” which implies social peace and harmony cannot be taken for
Imphal, Aug 24: BJP president Nitin Gadkari has likened the plight of people of the Northeast with that of the Kashmiri Hindus, alleging a foreign hand behind the exodus of Northeast students and workers from
Guwahati, Aug 22: Two labourers were killed and another seriously injured in fresh violence in riot-hit lower Assam today taking the overall death toll to 80. Unidentified assailants fired on a group of minority labourers
New Delhi, Aug 18: The CBI today announced a cash reward of up to Rs one lakh to anyone who could provide credible information which could lead to identification or arrest of perpetrators of the
Kokrajhar (Assam), Aug 17: Violence returned to Kokrajhar town tonight with the killing of one person, taking the toll to 78 in the clashes that started in Assam's communally-sensitive districts since late last month.Police said
New Delhi, Aug 17: In the wake of rumours which have created panic among people from North East, social media like Facebook and Twitter on Friday came under sharp focus in Parliament with demands for
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