Assam, India News

Alipurduar, July 1: A one-year-old boy, rescued from a train and taken care of in the Alipurduar hospital, was handed over to his mother by the Jalpaiguri Child Welfare Committee tonight.

Guwahati : Shiv Charan Mathur was on Friday sworn in as Assam governor. Gauhati highcourt judge Aftab Hussain Saikia administered the oath of office to Mathur at a function held at the Rabindra Bhavan here.

Guwahati, June 28: After a brief ceasefire-induced lull, security forces have beefed up counter-insurgency operations against the B company of Ulfa's 28 battalion that has its operational areas in Sivasagar, ...

Dhubri : Police blank fired to control a mob that assaulted police personnel, including an officer, for taking action on three unruly youths in lower Assam's Dhubri district on Sunday.

Nalbari : Six people, including three women, were killed and over 80 injured on Sunday as a powerful bomb triggered by suspected ULFA militants ripped through a weekly market in Assam's Baksa district bordering ...

An official says an explosion at a roadside pig market in India's northeast has killed six people and injured 40.

Local magistrate P. Gohain says the blast occurred Sunday afternoon in Kumarikata in the state of Assam near the Bhutan border. Roughly 20 of the victims were injured critically.

Gohain says the blast is under investigation and would not speculate who was behind it. But militant separatists have set off bombs in the region in the past.

Several rebel groups are fighting for autonomy or independence in India's northeast.

Guwahati, June 26: Normal life was affected across Mizoram on Thursday following a day-long strike called by the Central Young Mizo Association to protest against a recent Gauhati High Court order directing ...

CRPF personnel fired at a group of agitating labourers in Assam's Dhubri district on Wednesday but there was no casualty, official sources said in Dhubri.

Guwahati, June 16: The flood scenario in Assam remained critical with floodwaters of several tributaries of the Brahmaputra continuing to inundate hundreds of villages in Lakhimpur district for the third day on ...

Various political parties and other groups in Assam Friday reiterated their demand for peace talks with the United Liberation Front of Asom even as the state government toughened its stand on the rebels.

GAUHATI, India : A series of landslides and house collapses caused by heavy rains have killed at least 14 people and injured more than 50 others in India's remote northeast, an official said Saturday.

Shillong : Amid the stand-off between Assam and Meghalaya over the disputed Langpih area, the Gauhati High Court has directed the Meghalaya government to pay compensation to three Langpih residents who were ...

June 11: A man walks through the ruins of Saint George's Church in Rihab, Mafraq, Jordan, east of Amman.

Four members of a family were killed by angry villagers who accused them of practicing witchcraft in India's remote northeast, police and area residents said Wednesday.

Guwahati, June 5: The Congress leadership in Assam is yet to take any decision regarding the issue of expulsion of arrested Assam education minister Ripun Bora.

A male hoolock gibbon wandered from the wild into a national park in Assam in search of a mate - and has now returned with her to his natural habitat.

Guwahati, June 6: The Assam Government has declared the highly endangered river dolphin, Platanista gangetica, known as 'sihu' in Assamese as the state aquatic animal.

A boy searches for reusable items near some greater adjutant storks at a rubbish dump near Deepar Beel bird sanctuary in Gauhati, India.

NEW DELHI: Assam's Education Minister Ripon Bora on Tuesday was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation from a guesthouse here while allegedly paying Rs.

From correspondents in Assam, India, 09:30 PM IST A moderate intensity earthquake rocked India's northeast Thursday triggering panic among residents in the region, officials said.