Hope returns: The Kokrajhar story
Apr 19, 2013
Govt has no record of thousands displaced in Kokrajhar
Nov 22, 2012
Kokrajhar calm, curfew relaxed
Nov 18, 2012
Assam: Curfew lifted for few hours in Kokrajhar
Nov 18, 2012
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.
Blog: Rahul Gandhi visits refugees in Assam relief camps
Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Wednesday September 12, 2012
Six weeks into the violence that hit Lower Assam, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi joins the long list of politicians on relief camp tourism. He had a lot to cover in a day's time; camps in Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Chirang districts.
Rahul Gandhi to visit troubled areas of Assam
Press Trust of India | Monday September 10, 2012
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit the ethnic violence-hit areas of Assam on Tuesday. During his one day programme, Mr Gandhi will go to the trouble-torn districts including Dhubri and Kokrajhar, where the violence between the local B...
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...
Ground Zero report: In Kokrajhar, the foreigner debate revisited?
Written by Sandeep Phukan | Sunday August 26, 2012
Just when it seems that the troubled parts of lower Assam would finally get back it's normal routine, hopes are belied. Last evening, when a group of people were returning to their village, they were waylaid and 5 people lost their lives. The local a...
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...
In Assam, over two lakh people are still refugees
Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Wednesday August 22, 2012
It has been more than a month since ethnic violence broke out in parts of lower Assam. Ever since then people there have been tense, angry and scared. Nearly two and a half lakh people, both Bodos and minorities, are still in 224 relief camps, althou...