Kokrajhar Violence

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...