The Assam Agitation that capped six years of anti-foreigner movement from 1979 to 1985, also impacted the way the state votes.

The suspected militants, identified as Sandan Basumatri, Naseen Basumatri, Jibal Nursey and Tomar Basumatri, and aged in their twenties, we...

Adivasis, say observers, suffer because they are caught in the vortex of Assam's ethnicity-based politics. The BTAD has tried to use the ad...

ASA has called for bandh in Assam, Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand against the killing of tribals by Bodo militants in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur ...

Altogether 81 people have been killed since Tuesday evening in serial attacks by NDFB(S) terrorists, retaliatory violence and alleged polic...

"We have decided to observe a dawn-to-dusk bandh in Assam, WB, Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand in protest against the killing of adivasis," Mur...

Ruling out any talks with the NDFB(S), Rajnath Singh said there will be no dialogue with such organisation, only action will follow.

It is an act of terror. Both state and central governments will deal with it the way terrorism is dealt with, Rajnath said.

In worst affected Sonitpur district six more bodies were recovered this morning from Maitalu Basti under Zinzia police station bordering AP.

Officials said that whenever security forces carry out offensives against the NDFB, the cadres of the group often sneak into the Bhutanese ...

Even as Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that steps were being taken to prevent the situation from escalating, violent protests by Adivasis ...

The party said it was seeking firm action from the state as well as central government to curb and dismantle the NDFB extremist group.

Murmu said a delegation of ASA, would soon meet the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and hand over a memorandum in support of their demands.

Sources said the party had made a similar promise in the last election also when senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh contested the Darjeeling L...

Investigators probing the Azad Maidan violence in Mumbai are looking at links between its perpetrators and possible masterminds in Assam.

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.

Several Bodo organisations as well as some political parties maintain that the violence was the result of unabated influx of immigrants fro...