Cachar District

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today rode a bike during a visit to the flood-hit Tamulpur. Over 2,50,300 people have been hit by the floods in five districts of Assam - Cachar, Chirang, Morigaon, Nagaon, and Tamulpur.

Assam's flood situation worsened with more than 31 lakh people affected and 12 deaths during the last 24 hours. Many parts of Cachar's Silchar town remained under water for over eleven days on Thursday, officials said.

134 people have died due to the floods in Assam this year, with eight deaths reported just yesterday -- five from Cachar district and one each from Kamrup Metro, Morigaon, and Nagaon.

Assam Floods: The situation in Assam remained grim on Saturday with the death count rising to 118 and Silchar town in the Cachar district submerged for the sixth straight day, official said.

In view of the prevailing situation and incidents of protest in various parts of the country following controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad by suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma and expelled BJP leader Naveen Kumar Jindal.

Controversy erupted in Assam over a new airport project in Cachar district after the Centre denied receiving a proposal to set up a new airport in the area.

At least 30 officers of the Cachar district administration have signed a memorandum and submitted to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma complaining against the behaviour of a BJP MLA.

Cachar district in Assam has been badly hit by floods and the IAS officer inspected various affected areas on Wednesday

The death count has risen to eight in the the ongoing pre-monsoon floods and landslides in Assam, where over four lakh people have been hit in 26 districts, officials said, adding that about 40 thousand people have been shifted to relief camps.

An 83-year-old woman has finally won her long battle to prove that she is an Indian citizen. Akol Rani Namasudra, a resident of Assam's Cachar district, was on Wednesday recognised as an Indian citizen by the Foreigners' Tribunal of Silchar.

A police officer allegedly shot himself dead with his service revolver at the Silchar Sadar police station in Assam's Cachar district on Monday, officials said.

CPI (Maoist) leader and a member of its central committee, Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee, known by his nom de guerre 'Kanchan Da', was arrested in Cachar district of Assam, a top police officer said on Monday.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma met Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday at the RSS headquarters of Silchar in Cachar district of Assam.

Bhandari Das fled from Bangladesh to India, an ally, in 1967 along with her husband and two children to escape "religious persecution" in her then hometown in Sylhet. She has lived as a foreigner at a village in Assam's Cachar district since then.

Two more employees of the defunct Nagaon and Cachar mills of the Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPCL) died in Assam's Morigaon district, taking the total number of deaths since their closure to 95, a union leader said on Thursday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today rode a bike during a visit to the flood-hit Tamulpur. Over 2,50,300 people have been hit by the floods in five districts of Assam - Cachar, Chirang, Morigaon, Nagaon, and Tamulpur.

Assam's flood situation worsened with more than 31 lakh people affected and 12 deaths during the last 24 hours. Many parts of Cachar's Silchar town remained under water for over eleven days on Thursday, officials said.

134 people have died due to the floods in Assam this year, with eight deaths reported just yesterday -- five from Cachar district and one each from Kamrup Metro, Morigaon, and Nagaon.

Assam Floods: The situation in Assam remained grim on Saturday with the death count rising to 118 and Silchar town in the Cachar district submerged for the sixth straight day, official said.

In view of the prevailing situation and incidents of protest in various parts of the country following controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad by suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma and expelled BJP leader Naveen Kumar Jindal.

Controversy erupted in Assam over a new airport project in Cachar district after the Centre denied receiving a proposal to set up a new airport in the area.

At least 30 officers of the Cachar district administration have signed a memorandum and submitted to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma complaining against the behaviour of a BJP MLA.

Cachar district in Assam has been badly hit by floods and the IAS officer inspected various affected areas on Wednesday

The death count has risen to eight in the the ongoing pre-monsoon floods and landslides in Assam, where over four lakh people have been hit in 26 districts, officials said, adding that about 40 thousand people have been shifted to relief camps.

An 83-year-old woman has finally won her long battle to prove that she is an Indian citizen. Akol Rani Namasudra, a resident of Assam's Cachar district, was on Wednesday recognised as an Indian citizen by the Foreigners' Tribunal of Silchar.

A police officer allegedly shot himself dead with his service revolver at the Silchar Sadar police station in Assam's Cachar district on Monday, officials said.

CPI (Maoist) leader and a member of its central committee, Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee, known by his nom de guerre 'Kanchan Da', was arrested in Cachar district of Assam, a top police officer said on Monday.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma met Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday at the RSS headquarters of Silchar in Cachar district of Assam.

Bhandari Das fled from Bangladesh to India, an ally, in 1967 along with her husband and two children to escape "religious persecution" in her then hometown in Sylhet. She has lived as a foreigner at a village in Assam's Cachar district since then.

Two more employees of the defunct Nagaon and Cachar mills of the Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPCL) died in Assam's Morigaon district, taking the total number of deaths since their closure to 95, a union leader said on Thursday.