A team of Chhattisgarh Police personnel was detained by Guwahati Police for allegedly demanding and accepting bribes from cybercrime accused arrested from Assam.
Seven people, including the manager of 'The Locals' nightclub in Guwahati, have been arrested after a woman was allegedly 'partially stripped and assaulted' by bouncers following a drunken brawl. The arrests were made after a video of the incident went viral, prompting police to register a suo motu case.
Two suspected vehicle thieves were killed in an exchange of fire with Assam Police near Sonapur after a high-speed chase involving a vehicle allegedly stolen from Guwahati's Fancy Bazar area. A third suspect managed to escape into a nearby forested area.
The BJP has announced former IAS officer Debashish Sharma as its candidate for the upcoming Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll in Assam. Sharma, who recently took voluntary retirement as Nagaon District Commissioner, joined the BJP and secured the party ticket within days. The by-election is scheduled for October 6, with counting on October 9. The seat was previously held by Pradyut Bordoloi of Congress, who later joined BJP. A complaint has been filed against Sharma regarding his tenure as DC.
The 2026 election appears to have reinforced a new political formula in Assam: Strong organisation, continuous grassroots engagement, effective alliance management and welfare-based voter outreach.
Stepping up political pressure ahead of the assembly elections, the Congress-led Opposition bloc in Assam has lodged an FIR against state Bharatiya Janata Party President Dilip Saikia, accusing him of directing BJP MLAs to delete Opposition voters during the ongoing Special Revision of electoral rolls.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has filed a Rs 500 crore defamation case against Congress leaders for alleging land grabbing by him and his family. The lawsuit follows a press conference where Congress leaders claimed Sarma possessed benami land.
The Assam Congress has filed a police complaint against the BJP for circulating a controversial video of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on social media, alleging it incites communal disharmony.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday alleged that over 5,000 social media accounts, mostly operated from Islamic countries, have become active in favour of the Assam Congress.
The curfew has been relaxed in Guwahati from 9 am to 4 pm and in Dibrugarh from 8 am to 2 pm. Schools and offices remain shut.
After the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was cleared by Parliament, violent protests broke out in Guwahati.
The Assam government on Monday shunted out Guwahati city Senior Superintendent of Police Apurba Jibon Baruah in the wake of severe criticism faced by the police for not acting promptly to prevent a girl being molested on G S Road on July 9.
A large quantity of explosives was recovered on Thursday from a vehicle in the capital city where security has been tightened ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit on November 29.
With the fresh fatalities, the total number of people losing their lives in this year's flood and landslides across the state has gone up to 42.
The bomb, kept in the Ganeshguri wholesale vegetable market, exploded at around 6.50 pm.
A senior police officer said bomb disposal squads have been rushed to all the places mentioned by ULFA-I but there is no report of recovery of any bomb or explosive.
Srinivas was accompanied by his lawyer and Assam Congress leaders, including MLAs Rakibul Hussain and Rekibuddin Ahmed.
Manash Borah, the Congress candidate in Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency, has reasons to feel special for two reasons.
Justice Ajit Borthakur in his judgement said that the court is of the opinion that the case is not a fit one to grant the privilege of pre-arrest bail to the petitioner and as such it stood rejected.
An Independent Rajya Sabha MP on Monday lodged a police complaint against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party leader has made a "hate speech" against the 'Miya' community on the previous day.
They accused Sarma of attempting to incite communal tension by targeting a specific community, potentially leading to riot-like situations in the state.
The toll due to floods in Assam's state capital rose to 11 on Saturday when one person was electrocuted even as the torrential rains ceased.
On May 5, the Gauhati high court had rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Srinivas in a case lodged by expelled chief of Assam Youth Congress Angkita Dutta, accusing him of causing mental agony to her.
Taufiquddin Ahmad, the editor-in-chief of local news website Pratibimba Live, and its news editor Iqbal were arrested to investigate the "conspiracy", additional director general of police-law and order GP Singh said.
"I don't want to be decided by the prime minister but he knows what he is saying is not true," Singh told reporters after casting his vote at Dispur Government High School in Guwahati.
On November 26, Gogoi's last journey will start from Kalakshetra and his cremation will take place in Guwahati instead of his hometown Titabor.
At least two persons including a nine-year-old boy were killed and several others injured when police opened fire to control a mob of protestors who went on a rampage on the arterial Guwahati-Shillong Road near Assam's capital complex at Dispur on Wednesday.
Gogoi's final journey began on Tuesday morning from Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), where he breathed his last due to post-COVID-19 complications, to his official residence in Dispur.
Leader of Krishak Mukti Sanram Samity and a Right To Information activist Akhil Gogi was arrested on Friday afternoon from Guwahati Press Club while addressing a press conference on charges of 'instigating' violence on the streets near the Assam's capital complex in Dispur on June 22 during a mass agitation against drive to evict illegal settlers from forest land, wetlands and hills in and around Guwahati city.
He was 84 and survived by wife Dolly, daughter Chandrima and son Gaurav. Gogoi, a three-time chief minister, breathed his last at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital at 5.34 pm, Sarma said.
In the wake of Wednesday's showdown on the streets between its police and violent protestors near the Assam capital complex at Dispur in Guwahati that left three dead and scores injured, the state government on Thursday made it clear that it was not going to talk with those who were leading the agitation affirming its tough posture against violence in the name of agitation.
The Assam government is making preparations for around 1,000 people to attend the last rites of former chief minister Tarun Gogoi, to be performed with full state honours at the Nabagraha cremation ground on Thursday, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
At least seven persons including a 10-year-old girl were killed and about 35 others injured when three explosions rocked Assam on Monday with the most powerful one causing devastation in the Guwahati city just a day ahead of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's scheduled visit to the state.
In his declaration submitted to Assam Legislative Assembly Secretary G P Das, Dr Singh said he has Rs 18,882,862 in bank deposits in State Bank of India branches at Central Secretariat, New Delhi, and Dispur, Guwahati.
A day after total shutdown in Assam to protest against the CAB, fresh protests erupted in the state and neighbouring Tripura and other parts of the nation.
The epicenter of the quake was Sonitpur and the quake occurred at 7.51 am at a depth of 17 kilometres, it said.
Others were more sympathetic to the prime minister.
Amid the chanting of hymns, preceded by a gun salute and band played by the Assam Police, the state's longest serving chief minister's mortal remains were consigned to flames by his son Gaurav Gogoi.
The state police on Thursday appealed to the people not to believe in rumours as some elements are trying to create confusion.
A direct contest between nominees of the BJP-led NDA and Congress-headed Grand Alliance is on the cards in 20 constituencies
