Overall 1,480 families from seven villages were affected after the forest reserves under which they fall were converted into the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park in 1999. They were settled by the state go...

Manufacturing of tea has been affected in at least 50 gardens in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts because of erratic supply of gas and disruption in supply of gas to their factorie...

A 12-year-old boy has been hired at Rs 1,500 per month for door-to-door garbage collection by a NGO in partnership with the Tinsukia Municipal Board in various wards here.“I am 12 and I come with a ...

Trains were rescheduled after seven wagons of a goods train derailed at Naharkatia in Dibrugarh district around 6.40am on Sunday between Naharkatia and Duliajan stations under Tinsukia division of the...

Environmentalists have expressed concern over the fire that raged at Kashijan reserve forest in Tinsukia district of Upper Assam on Monday night, saying that such tactics were employed by encroachers ...

Two firefighters of public sector major OIL were found dead in a wetland abutting the site of a major blaze at its Baghjan well, which has been 'uncontrollably' spewing gas for the last 15 days in Ass...

An NGO based in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district on Saturday alleged that illegal felling of over 10,000 trees was one of the reasons for this year’s floods.Devajit Moran, secretary of Green Bud So...

A Trinamul Congress delegation on Sunday visited the families of Bengalis who had been gunned down in Assam’s Tinsukia and vowed that the party would do everything to find the perpetrators. On Thurs...

The Tinsukia massacre and its aftermath have marred pre-Diwali trade in Alipurduar and Cooch Behar as wholesalers and retailers from bordering Assam source their supplies from these two Bengal distric...

Assam BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass on Friday said the killing of five men in Tinsukia district on Thursday could be the result of a bigger political conspiracy to create unrest in the state over t...