Assam Violence

Four killed in Assam's Goalpara district, curfew imposed

Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Tuesday April 30, 2013

Curfew has been imposed in Malaipathar in Assam's Goalpara district amid violence in which four people have been killed. Two people died this morning when the police opened fire to control a 3000-strong mob on the rampage. Two more people were killed...

Assam poll violence: Two more killed in police firing in Dhubri

Press Trust of India | Friday February 15, 2013

Two people were killed today and 11 others seriously injured in firing by security men amid clashes at a panchayat vote counting centre in Assam's Hatsingimari subdivision where indefinite curfew has been imposed.

Assam poll violence: Director General of Police says situation improving, defends police firing

Alok Pandey | Thursday February 14, 2013

No fresh killings have been reported from Assam's Goalpara district where protests by the Rabha Hajong tribe during Tuesday's village council elections triggered violence. The death toll has gone up to 21 today. Director General of Police, Jayanto Na...

Assam poll violence: Toll rises to 20 after overnight clashes, fresh police firing; curfew imposed

Alok Pandey | Thursday February 14, 2013

Three more people have died in police firing in Assam's Goalpara district, taking the death toll in the last one day to 20. Thirteen people have died in police firing and six in clashes, which continued overnight between the Rabha Hajong tribe, which...

75 per cent voting reported in violence-hit Assam local polls

Edited by Amit Chaturvedi (With PTI inputs) | Tuesday February 12, 2013

An estimated 75 per cent electorate exercised their franchise in the third and final phase of panchayat elections in Assam today which was marred by violence leaving 10 dead and several others, including security personnel, injured.

Review panel okays blocking of 306 Twitter accounts

Press Trust of India | Wednesday February 6, 2013

A high-level government review committee has given its stamp of approval on a decision to block 306 accounts being used on micro-blogging site Twitter in the wake of communal violence in Assam's Kokrajhar district and large scale migration of people ...

Assam violence displaces thousands again, government in denial

Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Thursday November 22, 2012

The Assam government claims only 35,000 of the five lakh people displaced by the Bodoland violence of the summers are left to be rehabilitated. But NDTV has found that thousands have been forced to leave their homes again in the fresh round of killin...

Assam: Curfew relaxed in Kokrajhar for second day in a row

Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Monday November 19, 2012

As Assam's Kokrajhar district remained calm and violence free for the second day in a row, the curfew has been relaxed in most parts of the district from 8 am to 4 pm. In the last ten days, a total of 10 people have been killed in the district.

Curfew lifted for few hours in Kokrajhar

Reported by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, edited by Samira Shaikh | Sunday November 18, 2012

The curfew has been relaxed in Assam's violence hit Kokrajhar district from 10 am to 4 pm today. Four people, including a child, died Friday night after fresh violence broke out in Kokrajhar. In the last ten days, a total of 10 people have been kill...

Four more die in fresh violence in Kokrajhar, Bodo Territorial Council member arrested with weapons

Reported by Kishalay Bhattacharjee; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Saturday November 17, 2012

Four people, including a child, died last night after fresh violence broke out in the district of Kokrajhar in Assam. In the last week, a total of 10 people - including last night's victims - have been killed in the district, which in July was the ep...

The return of the curfew in Assam's Kokrajhar: 10 big developments

Reported by Kishalay Bhattacharjee; edited by Surabhi Malik | Friday November 16, 2012

In the last week, six people have been killed in the district of Kokrajhar, which in July was the epicenter of sustained ethnic violence, the worst in over a decade in the state of Assam. The area is simmering again because of a new surge of hostilit...

Assam on edge: six dead, PM phones chief minister

Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Friday November 16, 2012

Two months after Assam witnessed its worst ethnic violence in a decade, the epicentre of those riots, in which more than 99 people were killed and five lakhs displaced from their homes, is simmering again.

Two killed in fresh ethnic violence in Kokrajhar

Press Trust of India | Saturday November 10, 2012

In a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Assam's Bodoland, two persons were killed in Kokrajhar district today, a senior police official said.

Assam ethnic trouble far from over, says Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde

Reported by Sudhi Ranjan Sen | Thursday September 13, 2012

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has told the Union cabinet on Thursday that there could be fresh violence in Assam, said sources. At a meeting of the Cabinet committee on political affairs (CCPA) - the top political decision making body which is he...

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.