Assam violence: Home Minister P Chidambaram begins two-day visit of the state - Top 10 developments
Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Monday July 30, 2012
Home Minister P Chidambaram has reached violence-hit Kokrajhar in Assam on a two-day visit. He will take stock of the situation. BJP leader LK Advani is also expected to visit Kokrajhar today - nearly 10 days after the area was hit by clashes. 53 peo...
PM's chopper develops technical snag during Assam visit
Press Trust of India | Saturday July 28, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's helicopter returned midway from a flight to strife-torn Kokrajhar district today due to a technical problem.
Assam violence: Home Minister P Chidambaram to visit state on Monday - Top 10 developments
Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Sunday July 29, 2012
Home Minister P Chidambaram will take stock of the situation in violence-hit Assam in his two-day visit beginning Monday. Earlier on Saturday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced Rs 300 crore relief for the state. On a visit to the relief camps i...
Assam flood: PM announces Rs 500 crore package
Press Trust of India | Monday July 2, 2012
Assam flood, Flood, PM visits Assam, Sonia Gandhi visits Assam, PM Sonia visit Assam, PM Sonia Assam flood, PM Assam flood
Assam flood: PM, Sonia Gandhi survey affected areas
Edited by Mala Das with PTI inputs | Monday July 2, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi today made an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas in Assam.
61 people dead in Assam floods; PM, Sonia to visit today
Edited by Mala Das with agency inputs | Monday July 2, 2012
The flood situation in Assam continues to be grim with the toll having risen sharply to 61. Nearly 20 lakh people have also been displaced in the flood, the worst in more than a decade. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister and the UPA chairperson Sonia Gan...
Assam should become a growth engine: PM
Indo-Asian News Service | Friday April 20, 2012
Braving security threats by the anti-talk faction of the ULFA and a shutdown call by the militants, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday inaugurated the platinum jubilee celebration of the Assam legislative assembly and said that he wanted to make...
High security in Assam for Prime Minister's visit
Press Trust of India | Friday April 20, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a day-long visit to Assam. Security has been beefed up in the state after the United Liberation Front of Assam's (ULFA) anti-talk faction called a 12-hour Assam bandh in protest. Police and para-military personnel ...
ULFA calls Assam bandh on April 2 to protest PM visit
Press Trust of India | Thursday March 31, 2011
ULFA has called a 12-hour Assam bandh on April 2 to protest against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's proposed visit to the state to campaign for party candidates for the first phase of Assembly elections, due on April 4.??? ?In a statement e-mailed to PTI, Arunodoy Dohotiya, publi...
Third blast rocks Assam a day before PM's visit
Press Trust Of India | Tuesday April 7, 2009
Following the twin blasts in Assam, another blast has taken place in the state in Mancachar area on the Indo-Bangladesh border, injuring one person.
PM to visit Assam for poll campaign
Press Trust Of India | Tuesday April 7, 2009
Notwithstanding Monday's bomb blasts in Assam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a visit there on Tuesday to address a public meeting.
Ahead of PM's visit, 3 blasts blow hole in Assam security
Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Tuesday April 7, 2009
It was a big blow to India's security establishment. Just over a week before elections 2009 kick off, blasts rocked Assam on Monday.
