New Delhi : Ten days after the Centre-appointed high-level committee finalised its report on implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, the government has agreed to accept the report. The report, incidentally, will be handed to the state government, and not the Union Ministry of Home Affairs which constituted the committee. Sources said there […]

Guwahati : Assuring the people of Assam that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will not lead to outsiders settling in the state, Prime Minister said Friday that “certain forces” were spreading misinformation on the CAA and that the country will “neither tolerate nor forgive” them. The Prime Minister was in Assam for the first time after […]

Bantwal: Fed up with the recurring problem of flood during every monsoon, an autorickshaw driver in the taluk has given his house a ‘lift’ by four feet. He said his house used to get flooded every monsoon. Hence, he decided to give a lift to the he decided to give a lift to the house […]

Bengaluru :  : It was a day of electoral firsts as the results of the Assembly elections in four States and one Union Territory came in on Thursday — Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa returned to power, breaking a pattern of alternation that had held since 1989; the BJP is set to form its first […]

New Delhi : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was on Wednesday slapped with a legal notice by Asom Gana Parishad’s youth wing, giving him 15 days to offer an apology for his purported remarks that the party came to power for a second term in Assam with the support of insurgents. The AGP youth wing […]

Guwahati  : An Indian Air Force helicopter pilot on Tuesday refused to ferry Congress leader Rahul Gandhi back to Guwahati citing bad weather. The pilot stood his ground despite intervention from defence minister A K Antony’s request. The pilot had taken  Rahul Gandhi to riot-hit Bodoland areas of lower Assam from Guwahati airport on Tuesday. […]

Kokrajhar (Assam) : Six more people fell victim to unabated violence between  Muslim  immigrants and Bodos in three districts of lower Assam, taking the death toll in the ethnic strife to 38 even as the entire North-East remained cut off by rail for the third day today. Four more bodies were recovered  on Wednesday  from […]