ASSAM

12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

Five of family burnt to death in Assam

3:25 pm October 19, 2019

Dibrugarh (Assam): Five members of a family including two children were charred to death when a cooking gas cylinder burst triggering fire at their house in Dibrugarh district of upper Assam, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred at Niz Kodomoni near Thermal Colony in Dibrugarh town, district Additional Superintendent of Police Dhruba Bora said. […]

Assam mob attack: nine held for theft, search on for assaulters

9:41 pm October 12, 2019

Hailakandi (Assam): The police on Saturday arrested nine people in connection with the alleged theft of a buffalo, which led to an incident of mob attack in Hailakandi district of South Assam on Friday. Hailakandi Superintendent of Police Pabindra Kumar Nath said the nine were apprehended on the charge of theft and they have been […]

AR seals porous India-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Moreh

1:36 pm October 9, 2019

Imphal: The Assam Rifles (AR) has sealed the porous India-Myanmar border at Moreh town in Manipur for maintaining law and order, police said. The porous border spread over 10 km between Moreh town in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district and Myanmar was sealed by the Assam Rifles on Tuesday, the police said. There was a bomb explosion […]

4.3-magnitude earthquake hits Assam

9:07 pm October 7, 2019

Guwahati: A 4.3-magnitude earthquake, with epicentre in Bhutan, rocked Assam at 6.05 pm on Monday, the meteorological office here said. The quake struck at a depth of 10 km in the neighbouring Himalayan kingdom, with latitude 27.9 degree north and longitude 91.5 degree east, it said. No casualty or damage to property has been reported […]

BJP, RSS to launch campaign to allay fears over NRC

6:49 pm September 25, 2019

Kolkata: Hitting out at TMC for intentionally creating panic over implementation of NRC in West Bengal, the BJP and the RSS said on Wenesday that they will launch a counter campaign in the state to allay the fear of the people and build public opinion on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. The saffron organisations would launch door-to-door […]