Andhra Pradesh engineer goes missing in Assam, abduction by militants suspected
Uma Sudhir | Monday February 18, 2013
A 26-year-old engineer from Andhra Pradesh, who was working in Assam, has gone missing since Friday. Chintala Paidi Raju, a resident of Visakhapatnam, is suspected to have been abducted by suspected rebels of the outlawed National Democratic Front of...
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.
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 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...
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.
Blog: Riots, rumors and mass exodus
Bhasker Pegu | Wednesday August 22, 2012
The spurt of killings which began in Bodoland autonomous region of Assam in North-East India and spread to many regions of the country, has been dubbed as India's biggest-ever internal displacement so far.
6000 children in Assam relief camps reported 'sick'
Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Sunday August 5, 2012
The violence may have ebbed in Assam's Bodoland but a medical emergency seems to have resulted out of the relief camps in the state. According to the state government, out of the over 8000 children in relief camps, 6000 are sick.
India Matters: Blood and Belonging in Assam
Maya Mirchandani | Friday August 3, 2012
Blood and Belonging in Assam goes beneath the surface of the latest clashes in Assam's Kokrajhar and adjoining districts, governed by the autonomous Bodoland Territorial Council to delve into the faultlines of ethnicity, religion and economic dispari...
Assam violence: A history of conflict rooted in land
Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Sandeep Phukan | Friday July 27, 2012
At 3 pm, 100 soldiers carry out a flag march - an exercise to demonstrate the Army is on hand and working to revive law and order - in Jurigaon, a small village in Kokrajhar district of Assam. There is no civilian in sight. There are the remains of h...
Fresh violence in Assam, Rajdhani attacked
Press Trust of India | Tuesday July 24, 2012
Fresh violence today rocked the trouble-torn Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts in Assam where the Rajdhani Express was attacked by some persons even as the entire train services to and from the Northeast was hit.
Assam violence: Toll rises to 18, Rajdhani Express stopped in Kokrajhar
Written by Mala Das | Monday July 23, 2012
As the situation in Assam continues to remain tense owing to the communal violence, three more bodies were recovered today, taking the death toll to 18.
Puri-Guwahati train accident: Adivasi group planted explosives?
NDTV Correspondent | Monday July 11, 2011
Barely couple of hours after Puri-Guwahati Express left the platform on Sunday evening, a powerful IED(Improvised Explosive Device) planted on the tracks exploded, derailing four coaches at Bhatkuchi, in lower Assam. At least 40 passengers were injured in the blast. Soon after the explosion, the Rai...
