EC announces election schedule, phases shrink for polls to 5 assembliesElections for five states and union territories are scheduled from April 9 to May 4. This condensed timeline reduces the overall election d...
16 Mar, 2026, 12.46 AM IST
Assam govt tables reports on Nellie massacre, Assam agitationThe Assam government has tabled the TD Tiwari commission report on the Nellie massacre and the Mehta commission report on the Assam agitati...
26 Nov, 2025, 12.11 AM IST
Placing of Nellie massacre panel reports after 42 years brings to fore Assam's darkest chapter againAssam's darkest chapter, the Nellie massacre, resurfaces after 42 years. Reports on the 1983 violence, which claimed over 2,000 lives, were...
25 Nov, 2025, 04.47 PM IST
T.D. Tiwari report on 1983 Nellie massacre to be tabled next month in Assam; Opposition calls move politicalAssam government will table the T.D. Tiwari Commission report on the 1983 Nellie Massacre next month. Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia...
24 Oct, 2025, 10.05 PM IST
Assam by-polls: Three legislators who resigned from state assembly fielded by BJPPhanidhar Talukdar was given the party's ticket from Bhabanipur while Rupjyoti Kurmi from Mariani and Sushanta Borgohain from Thowra. Borgo...
04 Oct, 2021, 10.06 PM IST
Congress MLA picked up by Assam police for alleged communal commentsHe was picked up from his official residence in Guwahati after several FIRs are filed against him. Post eviction drive in Gorukhuti last we...
02 Oct, 2021, 09.34 PM IST
Opposition Congress party will contest four seats and leave one seat for regional partiesFive seats are going to by polls on October 30. Former chief Sarbananda Sonowal has resigned as MLA from Majuli after being elected to Uppe...
01 Oct, 2021, 10.45 PM IST
Student, civil society groups hit the streets of Assam against Citizenship BillAasu, along with 30 other organisations of Assam, organised a “clarion call of indigenous people” against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill,...
24 Jan, 2019, 08.58 AM IST
From Assam Accord to NRC discord: A timelineIn 1979, Aasu and the All Asom Gana Sangram Parishad (AAGSP) began a series of protests across the state. State educational institutes rema...
02 Aug, 2018, 09.02 AM IST
Perfume baron-turned politician Maulana Ajmal failed to leave his scent in AssamWith BJP and its allies - Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People's Front -getting a thumping majority, Ajmal's role in government formation...
20 May, 2016, 12.40 PM IST
Assam polls: How Sarbananda Sonowal played up identity and development issues to script the biggest win for BJP in the eastIn a symbolic gesture, Sonowal contested from river island of Majuli which represents the Vashnavite culture and has won.
20 May, 2016, 04.55 AM IST
BJP gearing up for Assam polls with development agenda, CM candidate and vision documentBJP in Assam is readying to approach voters with positive agenda of development. The party has started the dialogue process for preparation...
29 Jan, 2016, 07.28 PM IST
Law commission recommends to repeal special article introduced by Indira Gandhi during emergencyThe special provision was brought in to nullify the general procedure for disputing an election by presenting an election petition to the h...
19 Nov, 2014, 12.46 PM IST
Politics starts over death of 32 in Assam; BJP, Congress blame each otherMinority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan blamed Modi for creating instability in Assam by his speeches in which he raised the Bangladeshi is...
05 May, 2014, 06.18 AM IST
Congress may bank on Muslims support in AssamCongress is expected to gain from intense political polarisation that in Assam like never before, due to Muslims who account for 30% of tot...
13 Apr, 2014, 08.27 PM IST
Congress misguiding people about BJP: Rajnath SinghBJP President Rajnath Singh today criticised Congress for "misleading" people by calling his party "divisive" and said it was doing it to h...
30 Mar, 2014, 07.41 PM IST
- A distraught tribal: The genesis of Assam ethnic violence
Ethnic conflict in Assam , like in some other parts of the north-east is decades old, but has increased in frequency since the late 1970s.
12 Aug, 2012, 01.33 PM IST