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Around 3,000 polling stations declared critical in Assam

Last Updated: Sunday, April 6, 2014, 12:22

A polling station is identified `critical` on the basis of its vulnerability to violence by insurgents or any other disturbing factor like rigging or threat to voters, affecting a free and fair election process, he said.

Lakhimpur real test for Cong; tea tribe votes key in Dibrugarh

Last Updated: Saturday, April 5, 2014, 15:49

Assam BJP chief Sarbananda Sonowal moving out from Dibrugarh may have given a sigh of relief to Congress` five-time MP from the seat Paban Singh Ghatowar but has made things tough for Congress` Ranee Narah, who is left to fight against Sonowal in Lakhimpur.

Gogoi terms BJP manifesto for Assam hollow

Last Updated: Saturday, April 5, 2014, 00:03

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Friday hit out at the BJP for making "tall and hollow promises" in its election manifesto for Assam, which he termed "a repetition of promises made in the past and forgotten when the party was in power".

Tarun Gogoi`s wife learning Assamese to campaign for son Gaurav

Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2014, 12:49

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi`s son Gaurav, contesting from here, has his own `star` campaigner -- his Britain-born wife who is learning Assamese fast and using her language skills at few political rallies she has attended.

If Modi becomes PM, corporates will run India like US: Gogoi

Last Updated: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 16:07

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Thursday said if his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi became prime minister, the government would be run by big corporates like that in the US.

If Modi becomes PM, corporates will run India like US: Gogoi

Last Updated: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 15:49

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday said if his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi became prime minister, the government would be run by big corporates like that in the US.

Assam`s richest poll candidate seeks comeback

Last Updated: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 10:52

Entry of lottery baron Moni Kumar Subba, who is facing murder and rape cases, into the fray as an Independent is likely to make the contest here an interesting one with the three-time former Congress MP banking on support of main opposition party AIUDF and the Nepali community to see him through.

Assam students` body protests NPF`s entry into state politics

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 22:20

Students Union Movement of Arunachal (SUMA) activists today set ablaze a vehicle at hotel Donyi Polo Ashok protesting the entry of Naga Peoples` Front (NPF), a Nagaland-based party, in state politics.

Curfew relaxed for two hours in Chirang after girl`s murder

Last Updated: Sunday, March 30, 2014, 20:47

The indefinite curfew clamped in Chirang district was relaxed for two hours on Sunday evening with no report of violence following the murder of a school girl.

BJP for action against illegal migrants from Bangladesh: Rajnath Singh

Last Updated: Sunday, March 30, 2014, 18:09

BJP President Rajnath Singh on Sunday said people who came from Bangladesh after 1971 and settled in Assam or elsewhere in the country should be treated as illegal migrants and necessary action be taken against them.