Guwahati : One ULFA was killed at Borka Borigog village in the wee hours of Wednesday in an encounter with police.One policeman was also injured when the militants exploded a bullet.
Borka is the village where Phul Chand Ram was killed one and a half month ago.
19 Mar 2017 - 11:59pm | AT News
AGP central leadership is facing no less ire in Dhemaji for striking alliance with BJP in the upcoming assembly by polls slated for April 9. A section of party leaders in the tribal dominated...
25 Jun 2015 - 7:56pm | AT News
Finally Assam fails to find place in the list of the proposed Indian Institutes of Management even after Centre’s promises. The beneficiaries are Visakhapatnam, Bodh Gaya, Sirmaur, Nagpur,...
26 Dec 2018 - 8:00pm | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
Preparations are going infull swing to hold Indo-Bhutan friendship shooting championship in the last week of February next in Kokrajhar district. A new committee of the Kokrakhar...
30 Apr 2015 - 1:59pm | AT News
Dipankar Nath and Lurinjyoti Gogoi assumed office as AASU president and general secretery respectively on Thursday. The duo took oath at a function organized at the Swahid Nyash Bhawan where out...
The third wave of Assam floods turned catastrophic killing at least 35 people, increasing total flood tool this year to at least 85, where 23 are child, affecting 26 out of 27 districts in the state. Only a hills district, North Cachar is out of reach to flood. But it fell to land avulsion due to heavy rain in hilly areas and several people were died in past few months to land slide.According to a government communiqué more then 7000 villages were inundated by devastating flood this year which affected 80, 80, 500 population and 4,00, 000 hectare crop area. According to 2001 census total population of Assam is 2, 66, 38, 407 and flood displaced are more then one third of the total...
Guwahati high court on Friday ordered lifetime imprisonment to the killer of a nine year old child Varun Sandilya in Guwahati on 22 January 2001. Anupam Das, who used to live in a two room rented part house owned by Varuns father in their campus and killed the child after allegedly sexual molestation on him and cut his body into parts and hided the torso under his bed and head in a trunk. The next day police recovered the corpse following a missing entry by his father. A case has been lodged in Geetanagar police station killed was forwarded to judicial custody after a detailed investigation. But few days later Anupam managed to flee from police custody while he was brought to the court for...
Guwahati: Guwahati police have arrested one Sow Aly, an illegal intruder from an African country Mali on Sunday afternoon from a city hotel for traveling without any valid documents. He has been arrested from Hotel Tourist after the police got information about the presence of an illegal migrant. Paltan Bazaar police station has registered a case no. 517/07 under section 14 of the foreigners Act (Reed with section), 353/ 326 under Indian Penal Code and reed with section 7 of Sarai Act. The Manager of the hotel Rashid Ali has also been arrested with Sow. They have been forwarded to judicial custody after they were produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court. Police suspects him...
Guwahati: Karimganj police on Sunday rescued an abducted rubber garden manager Rabindra Sinha from Shivbari hillock in Duhaliya locality in Karimganj district. Sinha was kidnapped on gunpoint from his quarter in Narayanpur area under Patharkandi constituency in Barak valley on August 22. He is also a cousin brother of Patharkandi MLA Kartiksena Sinha. After getting specific information about his and his kidnappers presence in Shivbari area police team cordoned the area and started search operation from early morning. Operation forced kidnappers to flee, leaving Sinha in the forest. Soon police rescued Sinha, who was very ill at that time due to psychological and physical pressure on him...
Dhubri police today arrested an MLA Rashul Haq Bahadur with six others. Rashul belongs to AUDF founded by Aagar baron Badaruddin Ajmal just before last assembly election to fight against Congress and subsequently won 10 seats. Rashul has been elected from Dhubri constituency and one of the youngest MLA in Assam assembly. Very recently, he had came to the headlines demanding an Autonomous region for Muslims in lower Assam covering Dhubri, Goalpara, Barpeta, Nalbari and some other parts. Rashul has been accused in charge of ransacking a temporary Congress office at Dhubri on Sunday morning and threatening Congress workers by frisking out guns. According to police source, MLA Rashul and some...
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