Beki River

Rains flood this area every year. This year, floods first came in June but the water receded, and then came this week's deluge. Volumes of water from the swelling Bramhaputra is flowing into the Beki on whose floodplains rests Barpeta's Kalgachia village, leading to unprecedented inundation. The only things visible other than water are submerged hu...

At least seven people, including three children and a woman, were killed and 21 others injured in a lightning strike in Assam's Barpeta district today.

Bodies of three more people kidnapped by suspected militants were recovered from the Beki River in Assam's Baksa district today even as police fired in the air to disperse a mob holding a protest against the kidnapping in violation of indefinite curfew in Salbari sub-division.

Curfew in the three violence-hit districts of Kokrajhar, Baksa and Chirang in Assam was relaxed on Monday morning. The death toll in the targeted killings rose to 31 on Sunday evening after two bodies were found floating in the Beki river near Narayanguri village in Baksa district. 30 people have been arrested in connection with the killing of lo...

Rains flood this area every year. This year, floods first came in June but the water receded, and then came this week's deluge. Volumes of water from the swelling Bramhaputra is flowing into the Beki on whose floodplains rests Barpeta's Kalgachia village, leading to unprecedented inundation. The only things visible other than water are submerged hu...

At least seven people, including three children and a woman, were killed and 21 others injured in a lightning strike in Assam's Barpeta district today.

Bodies of three more people kidnapped by suspected militants were recovered from the Beki River in Assam's Baksa district today even as police fired in the air to disperse a mob holding a protest against the kidnapping in violation of indefinite curfew in Salbari sub-division.

Curfew in the three violence-hit districts of Kokrajhar, Baksa and Chirang in Assam was relaxed on Monday morning. The death toll in the targeted killings rose to 31 on Sunday evening after two bodies were found floating in the Beki river near Narayanguri village in Baksa district. 30 people have been arrested in connection with the killing of lo...