Floods, landslides kill 8 as heavy rains batter Assam

Eight persons have been killed in floods and landslides in Assam as incessant rainfall caused massive inundation in 17 districts, affecting over 78,000 people, officials said on Saturday. IMAGE: A......

Bodo MLA Pradeep Brahma remanded to 7-day judicial custody

Indefinite curfew was clamped in Kokrajhar district of Assam on Thursday morning as fresh tension gripped the violence-affected district over the arrest of Kokrajhar West constituency legislator......

2,000 refugees in Jalpaiguri from Kokrajhar

With the situation remaining grave in strife-torn Kokrajhar district in Assam, around 2,000 people from the state have migrated to neighbouring Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal. Jalpaiguri......

Assam government to shut relief camps in Kokrajhar

Thousands of people displaced due to the violence in Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District Council areas are still scared to leave the relief camps and go back to their villages. It......

Star athlete Hima Das makes appeal for flood-hit Assam

IMAGE: People stand on a damaged embarkment washed out by the floods due to incessant rainfalls, at Hajo in Kamrup. Photograph: PTI Photo India's rising track and field star Hima Das has made an......