Assam Ethnic Clashes

In this Assam town, a determined effort to fight communal tension

Reported by Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Thursday September 13, 2012

Dhubri town served as a refuge for hundreds of people who were affected by the recent ethnic violence in Assam, the worst in the state in over a decade.

Assam: Militant violence, not ethnic clashes?

Written by Kishalay Bhattacharjee; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Thursday August 30, 2012

20 minutes from Kokrajhar town through lush green fields and a forest is Pakritol village. Not a recent habitat but a very old settlement with neat rows of houses. We hesitate to enter knowing that people there must be agitated. An Army convoy with r...

Assam violence: One killed in firing in Kokrajhar; bandh called by students' union today

Written by Mala Das | Tuesday August 28, 2012

One person has died and five others have been injured in fresh violence in the Kokrajhar district of Assam. The area has been the epicentre of an ethnic flare-up that has ravaged the state in the last one month, claiming over 90 lives and leaving lak...

Assam violence: Bandh called by Bajrang Dal; six ministers sent to ensure peace

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Monday August 27, 2012

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has ordered his administration to crackdown on trouble makers after five people were killed in fresh violence in lower Assam in the weekend. He has also sent out a team of ministers to ensure peace in the troubled dis...

Assam MLA arrest: Bodoland People's Front calls for indefinite bandh; curfew in Kokrajhar

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Friday August 24, 2012

The Bodoland People's Front has called for an idefinite bandh to protest against the arrest of their MLA for his alleged role in the recent ethnic clashes in Assam that have left over 70 people dead in the last one month. In anticipation of violence...

Gujarat riots were state sponsored, Assam clashes were not: Tarun Gogoi

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Thursday August 23, 2012

Tarun Gogoi, the beleaguered Chief Minister of Assam, has taken umbrage at comparisons being made between the Gujarat riots of 2002 and the ethnic clashes that have rocked his state in the last month; he says such comparison is "unfair."

Assam MLA arrested for alleged role in ethnic violence; supporters stop trains, traffic

Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Thursday August 23, 2012

A state legislator in Assam has been detained by the police for his alleged role in the recent ethnic clashes in the state that have left over 70 people dead in the last one month.

Assam prays for peace this Eid

Indo-Asian News Service | Monday August 20, 2012

Peace remained the central focus of Eid in Assam on Monday with thousands of people offering Namaz-e-Eid at mosques across the state, including in the troubled Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts where 77 people have been killed in ethnic clashes...

Assam shooting, one dead, hours after Sonia Gandhi's trip

Written by Sreenivasan Jain; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Monday August 13, 2012

In a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Assam, suspected militants shot at four labourers in Chirang district on the Assam-Bhutan border, killing one and wounding three.

In Assam's relief camps, the battle for life rages on

Reported by Alok Pandey; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Sunday August 12, 2012

The politics over ethnic clashes in Assam has spilled over to Mumbai with violent clashes between the police on one side, and protesters on the other. Thousands of kilometres away, in Assam, there is politics over the identity of those from the Musli...

Soldier memorial desecrated, police guns stolen, women cops molested, during Mumbai violence

Edited by Janaki Fernandes | Monday August 13, 2012

24 people have been arrested in Mumbai for Saturday's violence near Azad Maidan. Two people were killed and 55 others were injured after a protest over ethnic clashes in Assam turned violent there. Investigation is now on to determine if the violence...

Two people dead as Assam protests in Mumbai turn violent

Reported by Rashmi Rajput | Saturday August 11, 2012

Two people died at Mumbai's Azad Maidan after a protest over the ethnic violence in Assam turned violent. The police had to fire in the air and lathicharge the crowds after a section of them burnt vehicles, including media vans on Saturday evening. ...

Vote bank root cause of Assam violence: Arun Jaitley

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Thursday August 9, 2012

Here are the highlights of what various leaders said during a debate in the Rajya Sabha on Assam violence. Ethnic clashes have left over 70 people dead in the last one month in the state.

First signs of normalcy in Assam; villagers leave relief camps, return home

Alok Pandey | Thursday August 9, 2012

Normalcy seems to be returning in Assam, which has been witnessing ethnic clashes for over a fortnight now. Due to the violence, nearly 4 lakh people have been displaced and over 70 are dead.

Assam wants CBI to probe ethnic clashes; death toll 73: Latest developments

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Tuesday August 7, 2012

Trouble continues in lower Assam, which saw fresh violence and three deaths overnight. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the ethnic violence that is just not ending.