A 40-year-old man in Assam’s Karimganj district allegedly raped a minor girl and attacked two police personnel who had gone to arrest him. He was arrested later under charges of rape and assaulting government officials. According to police, the man…
In Goroimari town of Assam's Kamrup district, a father-son duo was detained for the alleged murder of a businessman from Guwahati. The businessman was allegedly kidnapped in Guwahati by the pair, who then killed him and dumped his body in…
As many as 22 buffaloes were rescued in Assam’s Cachar district on Thursday. According to sources, the truck, bearing the registration number ML04 A 8824, was en route Bangladesh via Meghalaya from Barak when they were intercepted in Cachar. The…
A surge in dengue cases has forced the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council in Assam to shut down all educational institutions at the hill town of Diphu till November 12. According to officials of the National Health Mission (NHM), the State…
The Assam Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has paved the way for Army-like training of the State police personnel. The Cabinet on Wednesday, approved the appointment of 34 retired soldiers as Additional Superintendents of Police on a…
Madrasas in Assam have been asked to submit the list of their teachers, non-teaching staff and all others associated with them to the State government by December 1. The instruction followed a meeting between the State’s Director-General of Police Bhaskar…
Officials of the Government Railway Police (GRP) on Tuesday seized 600 grams of gold, worth Rs 40 lakh, from a person on Rajdhani Express at Guwahati railway station and arrested the person hailing from Kerala who was carrying the gold.…
A 25-year-old man was killed on Tuesday in a blast in his outhouse in the Dibrugarh district of Assam, police said. Dibrugarh's Additional Superintendent of Police Bitul Chetia said the man, identified as Rituraj Mech, was killed in a suspected…
Assam got a 5,000-tonne capacity cold storage unit in the Chaygaon area which is by far the region’s largest, along with a fruit-processing centre at the food-processing park at Satabari under Kamrup district. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma inaugurated both…
The body of a 13-year-old girl was found hanging at the house of Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) jawan, where she was working as a domestic help, in Assam’s Darrang district on June 11. A suspended Assam Police Service officer and…
