Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2013, 17:18
Making a strong plea for abolition of capital punishment, an NGO dedicated to protection of human rights has said 1,455 people were awarded death sentence.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2013, 12:31
A Congress party office and three trucks were on Thursday set ablaze in Udalguri district and vehicles damaged in Baksa district in lower Assam.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 21:03
ABMSU activists blocked the Rangiya- Goreshwar road at lower Assam`s Baksa district in protest against the killing of two local businessmen by unidentified miscreants.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 20:22
Assam Governor J B Patnaik today suggested patrolling of the porous India-Bangladesh border by special riverine vehicles to check illegal immigration.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 19:30
BJP MP Kabindra Purkayastha was injured in a lathi-charge by security forces in Dholai town in Cachar district on Wednesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 16:45
Dubbing the violence in Assam`s RHAC areas as a `political conspiracy`, Assam CM Tarun Gogoi accused opposition parties of encouraging the perpetrators.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 23:04
The Army on Wednesday staged flag march in areas hit by violence in Assam`s Goalpara district where shoot-at-sight orders were issued.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 17:51
The bodies of two kidnapped businessmen abducted last month were recovered on Tuesday from Sargapur on the Indo-Bhutan border in Assam`s Baksa district , police sources said.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 16:14
Asom Gana Parishad on Tuesday said the situation had escalated due to "high-handedness" of the ruling Congress party.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 22:02
An estimated 75 per cent electorate exercised their franchise in the third and final phase of panchayat elections in Assam on Tuesday which was marred by violence leaving twelve dead and several others, including security personnel, injured.
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