• 

  Assam violence: Army deployed in West Karbi Anglong, CM says situation absolutely normal

  India | December 24, 2025 23:48 IST

  Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said, "Our DCs have been instructed that any person whom they feel is suspicious or any person who has been declared a foreigner by the tribunal, we should immediately issue an expulsion order, and the police or BSF will take action to send them back to Bangladesh..."

• 

  Assam: Two killed in police firing on 'encroachers', govt orders inquiry

  India | September 24, 2021 7:48 IST

  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 die of gunshot wounds in Guwahati, toll in police firing rises to 4

  India | December 15, 2019 16:38 IST

  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. 

• 

  Army Chief to hold close-door strategy meeting with officials

  India | December 27, 2014 13:46 IST

  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)

• 

  Army Chief to review situation in violence-hit Assam

  India | December 27, 2014 9:44 IST

  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

• 

  Toll rises to 78 in Assam violence

  India | December 25, 2014 12:35 IST

  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

• 

  Adivasis in Assam retaliate; kill two Bodos, torch a village

  India | December 25, 2014 19:28 IST

  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

• 

  Three killed in police firing in Golaghat, indefinite curfew

  India | August 20, 2014 21:48 IST

  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,

• 

  18 injured as police fire rubber pellets on protesters in Assam

  India | August 20, 2014 0:10 IST

  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

• 

  Families recount horror of losing children in Assam violence

  India | May 08, 2014 12:06 IST

  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

• 

  BJP hits back at Congress over Assam violence

  India | May 04, 2014 20:07 IST

  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

Advertisement
• 

  PM condemns Assam violence, Centre makes more forces available

  India | May 03, 2014 23:30 IST

  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

• 

  PM condemns Assam violence; promises steps to restore peace

  India | May 03, 2014 14:32 IST

  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

• 

  Gogoi rules out division, warns against violence

  Politics | August 04, 2013 13:08 IST

  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

• 

  PM assures Gogoi help in curbing violence

  Politics | November 16, 2012 12:38 IST

  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

• 

  Assam violence has brought out worrying faultlines: PM

  Politics | September 13, 2012 13:32 IST

  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

• 

  Foreign hand behind recent exodus of NE people: BJP

  Politics | September 23, 2012 16:40 IST

  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

• 

  Two labourers killed in fresh attacks in Assam

  India | August 22, 2012 20:42 IST

  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

• 

  CBI announces Rs 1 lakh reward for info about Assam violence

  India | August 18, 2012 17:47 IST

  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

• 

  Fresh killing in Kokrajhar, toll mounts to 78

  India | August 17, 2012 23:03 IST

  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