Assam police on Sunday gunned down an illegal coal trade accused in a purported encounter after his alleged escape from custody, two days after a court expressed concern at such killings having become...

A row over the construction of a road at Kachurthal area in Assam’s Hailakandi district bordering Mizoram’s Kolasib district on Tuesday morning escalated into an arson by evening leaving t...

Train services in the Northeast, particularly Assam, have been badly disrupted during the last couple of days because of the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Bill protests and bandhs. As a fallout of the ...

Normal School Silchar under the Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies has collected more than 500 very rare and old manuscripts which will be preserved in a special room of the school. The conten...

The BJP candidates of Silchar and Karimganj (SC) Lok Sabha constituencies are eying the 3.7 lakh voters of the 104 tea gardens of Barak Valley in southern Assam capitalising on the schemes and cashles...

The BJP and Congress are trying to woo the 32,000 tea voters ahead of the bypoll to the Ratabari (SC) Assembly constituency in Barak Valley. Besides Ratabari, bypolls will be held in three Assembly co...

District police on Sunday arrested one Dilwar Hussain Laskar for posing as a correspondent of Time8, a Guwahati-based news portal in Hailakandi town. His car has been seized.He was brought to Hailakan...

Nine railway staff will be given awards on Independence Day for showing “exceptional devotion to duty”. General manager of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), Sanjive Roy, on Saturday said he ha...

Several grade III and IV staff of the office of the Hailakandi deputy commissioner and amalgamated offices have raised concern over an order asking them to attend office everyday, including Sundays, o...

The district administration here has identified 40 booths in Jorhat subdivision as very sensitive during the December 5 panchayat polls and said adequate security arrangements would be made in those b...