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One held in big arms haul from car, NDFB hand suspected

Last Updated: Monday, May 12, 2014, 00:27

Arms and ammunition, including rifles, meant for the militant NDFB-Songbijit group`s `C-in-C`, were seized from a car in lower Assam`s Chirang district today, said a top police officer.

Assam govt for CBI inquiry into lady doctor`s death

Last Updated: Monday, May 12, 2014, 00:17

Despite the Assam health minister`s announcement of a CBI probe into the murder of a post-graduate woman medical student inside the ICU of a state run hospital, its striking junior doctors refused to suspend their protest agitation till concrete steps were taken.

Families reluctant to return to site of mayhem in Assam

Last Updated: Sunday, May 11, 2014, 15:47

It is a difficult situation for Safikul Islam. He wants to go back to his village but his wife and mother are unwilling to risk the family`s life as they witnessed the mayhem in front of their eyes.

Protest in Assam Medical College and Hospital after doctor`s murder

Last Updated: Sunday, May 11, 2014, 09:29

Junior doctors and students of Assam Medical College Hospital went on an indefinite strike, a day after 24-year-old post graduate student, Sarita Tashniwal, was murdered in the hospital`s Intensive Care Unit.

Assam Attack toll rises to 43 after 2 more bodies recovered today

Last Updated: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 18:06

Two more bodies of minors were recovered in the Baksa district today, taking the toll in the mayhem allegedly unleashed by the NDFB(S) in BTAD areas to 43, a senior government official said.

Assam: Seven family members buried alive in landslide

Last Updated: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 13:03

Seven members of a family, were buried alive in a landslide in south Assam`s Karimganj district, official sources said on Saturday.

Assam: Junior doctor killed after suspected failed rape attempt, ward boy arrested

Last Updated: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 15:54

A 24-year-old junior doctor, Sarita Tashniwal, was killed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Assam Medical College and Hospital after a suspected failed rape attempt by a ward boy.

Assam violence: ASCPCR for immediate transfer of children to state homes

Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2014, 16:18

Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has recommended immediate transfer of children who lost their parents, in the latest violence in the Assam`s Bodoland Territorial Area Districts, to state homes for children immediately.

Four militants arrested in Assam

Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2014, 01:15

Assam Rifles have caught four tribal guerrillas and recovered a large cache of weapons in Assam, official said Thursday.

Eastern Swamp Deer census begins in Kaziranga

Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2014, 00:42

The seventh census of Eastern swamp deer began today in the four ranges of Kaziranga National Park.