Chirang Clashes

• Administration will fire at anyone who resorts to arson and violence: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi

  With the death toll in the Assam clashes reaching almost 80, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said, "Administration will fire at anyone who resorts to arson and violence." Mr Gogoi's warning came after five more people were killed on Saturday in Chirang district of Assam. They were reportedly coming from a relief camp to buy groceries.

• Assam prays for peace this Eid

  Peace remained the central focus of Eid in Assam on Monday with thousands of people offering Namaz-e-Eid at mosques across the state, including in the troubled Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts where 77 people have been killed in ethnic clashes and more than four lakh displaced.

• Assam shooting, one dead, hours after Sonia Gandhi's trip

  In a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Assam, suspected militants shot at four labourers in Chirang district on the Assam-Bhutan border, killing one and wounding three.

• Assam violence: The politics of rehabilitation

  At a relief camp set up at the Bidyapur High School in Chirang, Assam, 55-year-old Abdul Jaleel is very angry when asked what he thinks about the demand of Bodo leaders and the BJP that only those with Indian identity papers among minorities at relief camps be allowed to go home.

• Four more killed as violence resurfaces in lower Assam, curfew in Chirang

  After 10 days of relative silence, violence has once again broken out in lower Assam, which was ravaged by ethnic clashes last month. Four bodies - two in Chirang district and two in Kokrajhar - were recovered yesterday taking the toll to 63 in the ethnic clashes.

• Four killed in fresh violence in lower Assam

  After 10 days of relative silence, violence has once again broken out in lower Assam, which was ravaged by ethnic clashes last month. Four more bodies have been recovered from the Kokrajhar and Chirang districts today, taking the toll to 63 in the ethnic clashes.

• Kokrajhar violence: Ground Zero report

  A serious humanitarian crisis is playing out in the riot-affected districts of lower Assam, with as many as four lakh people forced into relief camps across the districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Dhubri and a few other places. The exodus of people from the interior villages to these relief camps has still not ended, and those in these camps face an u...

• Assam violence: 1.5 lakh homeless, Army begins flag marches; 20,000 passengers stuck

  With ethnic violence escalating in lower Assam's Kokrajhar area, at least 13 columns of the Army has now been begun flag marches in Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Chirang and Bongaigaon in an attempt to assuage the situation. At least 32 people have died and 1.5 lakh people have been rendered homeless in ethnic clashes that started between two communities in ...

• Assam clashes: Bring law and order under control, Prime Minister tells Tarun Gogoi

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today took stock of the situation in Assam where ethnic clashes have taken place and directed Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to do everything possible to control violence.