Five Railway Territorial Army units to be disbandedThe Railway Territorial Army (TA) units were raised as an auxiliary force in 1949 under the Territorial Army Act, 1948, for maintaining rai...
Northeast Frontier Railway all set to commission 1500 kwp solar roof top systemsNortheast Frontier Railway is taking steps to generate green energy more and more by installing solar power plants across the zone. In a st...
Cabinet approves doubling of New Bongaigaon-Agthori via Rangiya railway lineThe project, that will be executed by the Construction Organization of Northeast Frontier Railway, will be completed by 2022-23.
Railway ministry to approach CCEA for doubling of railway line from New Bongaigaon to Guwahati via Rangiya: Piyush GoyalThe Railway Minister was apprised that Tetelia - Byrnihat new railway line, doubling of Lumding – Hojai section, Agartala – Sabroom new rai...
GOC-in-C reviews security scenario in Lower AssamGeneral Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, Lt Gen Praveen Bakshi, reviewed the prevailing security scenario in Lower Assam and o...
Rail blockade affects train services in AssamPolice took into custody nearly 150 agitators who were demanding ST status for the Koch-Rajbongshis and a separate Kamtapur state.
Northeast Frontier Railway cancels 10 trains as flood damages tracksNF Railway cancelled 10 trains, and changed the schedules and routes of three others due to damage in tracks by flood waters in Lower Assam.
Railway Budget 2104: Tarun Gogoi places list of demands before Railway MinisterGogoi appealed to Sadananda Gowda to introduce an alternate railway line from Coochbehar in West Bengal to Abhayapuri in Assam.
Assam violence: Curfew relaxed in Rangiya; no fresh incident of violenceCurfew in Rangiya sub-division of Kamrup Rural district was relaxed today even as no incident of fresh violence was reported from any part ...
Violence spreads outside Bodo areas; fresh trouble in Kokrajhar districtThere was fresh violence in Kokrajhar district on Thursday, even as the ethnic strife in Bodoland spread to Rangiya town.
Assam violence: Indefinite curfew clamped in RangiyaIndefinite curfew was today clamped in Rangiya revenue circle in Kamrup (Rural) district, where a mob torched a vehicle and damaged several...
Assam violence spreads to new district, Army stages flagmarchThe Army staged a flag march at Rangiya area after the incidents, the sources said, adding top district officials are also camping there.
Assam: Fresh incidents of violence eruptFresh incidents of violence were reported in Assam's Baksa and Kamrup (Rural) districts where unidentified persons set ablaze a car.
- Rangiya broad gauge line to be operational next year
The 510 km long Rangiya-Murkongselek line conversion from metre gauge to broad gauge in Assam, a national project, is to completed by March...
- PM asks MoS Rail to visit derailment site, he refuses
Prime Minister Manmohan on Monday asked Minister of State for Railways Mukul Roy to visit the site but he virtually defied him.
- Explosion on tracks near Rangiya 80km from Guwahati
More than 100 passengers were injured, 15 seriously, when the Guwahati-Puri Express derailed after suspected militants triggered an explosi...
- Assam flood scene grim, one washed away
One person was drowned and seven embankments were washed away as the flood situation in Assam remained grim on Sunday even as the army used...