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, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Assam. (Photo: ANI)

TMC stood beside those left out from NRC: Mamata in Assam

NRC and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill are two lollipops being doled out by PM Modi to fool people of Assam, said Mamata...

5 April 2019 2:29 PM IST

Gaurav Gogoi, the sitting Congress MP in Kaliabor constituency and son of former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, won by a huge margin of 2,09,994 votes against Moni Madhab Mahanta of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), an ally of the ruling BJP. (Photo: Twitter I Gaurav Gogoi)

17th Lok Sabha, Assam; BJP bags seven LS seats, Cong wins three, AIUDF...

BJP won 7 seats and lead in 3 others, Congress bagged 3 and the AIUDF 1 out of a total of 14 seats of Assam

24 May 2019 12:26 PM IST

Guwahati Police Commissioner Deepak Kumar. (ANI)

3 more arrested in Guwahati grenade blast

The arrested persons include former and current members of ULFA said, Kumar.

19 May 2019 9:37 AM IST

Shankar Brata Raimedhi, Superintendent of Police, Nagaon. (Photo: ANI)

Man arrested in Assam's Nagaon for his involvement in Guwahati blast

12 people were injured in the May 8 blast when two unknown bike-borne lobbed a grenade on the state police troops and...

18 May 2019 9:28 AM IST

Tigress being treated in Assam zoo on Friday. (Photo: ANI)

Tigress found in Orang being treated in Assam's zoo

Orang has seen a rise in tiger population and has the highest tiger density in India.

4 May 2019 10:48 AM IST

The Delhi Crime Branch on Sunday busted an interstate gang involved in supplying illegal arms and ammunition of different caliber from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh in Delhi and NCR. (Photo: AFP/Representational Image)

Stock of arms seized from car in Assam

The car was coming from Dibrugarh in neighbouring Nagaland and its three occupants were arrested.

27 Jun 2019 8:56 PM IST

Security agencies apprehend trouble in certain pockets of the state as verification of family trees brought to light that suspected foreigners are trying to get their names enrolled in the NRC.

1 lakh more people excluded from Assam's NRC, final list on July 31

The National Register of Citizens is being updated to pick out illegal foreigners in the state.

26 Jun 2019 11:52 AM IST

As heavy rainfall in Bhutan leads to rise in water levels of Pagladia and Borolia rivers washing away a bridge in Tamulpur & obstructing Tamulpurs connection to Baksa District Headquarters. (Photo: ANI)

Rains in Bhutan affects Assam's Tamulpur, bridge washes away

This has left the locals in the region in great difficulty as people are using bamboo or banana rafts to cross the...

24 Jun 2019 11:26 AM IST

The NRC, which was first prepared in 1951, is being updated in Assam in an effort to weed out illegal immigrants. The first draft released last year had excluded names of 40 lakh applicants. (Photo: ANI)

Two officials caught taking bribe to include name in NRC list

Both the officials were arrested following a complaint by Kajari Ghosh Dutta, a resident of Ananda Nagar, over a bribe...

14 Jun 2019 4:19 PM IST

Chief Minister of Assam, Sabanand Sonwal with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday in New Delhi. (Photo: Twitter | @PMOIndia)

PM Modi meets governors of 3 states, Assam CM

On May 18, PM met governors of Karnataka, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Chief Minister of Sikkim,...

12 Jun 2019 2:09 PM IST

The three persons who were taken into custody are residents of Arunachal Pradesh. (Photo: ANI)

3 arrested for possessing tiger hide, teeth, bones in Dhemaji district...

After getting tip off, joint operation was launched by Jonai Police, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and District Forest...

10 Jun 2019 10:21 AM IST

The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. (Photo: ANI)

Assam: Fire breaks out in Silchar-Trivandrum Express

No casualty has been reported yet and the fire tenders have reached the spot immediately to douse the flames.

9 Jun 2019 1:49 PM IST