Assam polls: Why the BJP is wooing the Bodos

Bodo tribals influence as many as 30 seats. No wonder, national parties are keen to forge alliances with Bodo groups, reports Bivekananda Biswas. In the run-up to the 2016 Assam Assembly elections,......

Will try to formulate a win-win formula for Bodoland: G K Pillai

Former Union Home Secretary G K Pillai favours setting up of a ‘state re-organisation committee’ to go into the demands for creation of separate statehoods being voiced by various......

Now an anti-statehood movement in Assam

An umbrella organization of several ethnic groups has decided to launch an agitation opposing the statehood demands raised by a number of ethnic groups in Assam. including Bodos, Karbis......

Lower Assam paralysed by calls for separate states

Life was hit in lower Assam for the second day on Tuesday in three bandhs called to press for Bodoland and Kamtapur, while Karbi Anglong, which had erupted over the statehood demand on the lines of......