Everything you need to know about Udalguri: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Udalguri: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Guwahati, Feb 24 (IANS) Tension erupted in Assam's Baksa district - a part of the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) - after bodies of four youths were found Sunday, police said.
Guwahati, Jan 8 (IANS) A special CBI team Tuesday arrested the main culprit behind last year's communal riots in Assam's Bodo areas, which left over 100 people dead and led to displacement of close to five lakh people, police said.
Guwahati, Jan 3 (IANS) A Congress leader in Assam's Bodoland Territorial Areas Districts (BTAD) was taken into custody by police Thursday after he allegedly attempted to rape a woman and was beaten up by villagers. He will be formally arrested as soon the case is filed.
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) More than 1,500 people representing 69 tribal organisations from Assam held a demonstration here Tuesday, demanding the government immediately seal the border and deport alleged illegal Bangladeshi settlers from the state.
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called up Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to discuss the law and order situation in the state after clashes in Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon, where six people have died since Saturday.
Guwahati, Nov 15 (IANS) Indefinite curfew was imposed in Assam's troubled Kokrajhar district Thursday after suspected militants shot dead a man and stabbed another.
Guwahati, Nov 14 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Wednesday directed state authorities to deal with the latest spurt in violence in Bodoland Territorial Areas Districts (BTAD) region with tough action, where earlier in the year over 100 people were killed in Bodo-Muslim clashes.
Guwahati, Nov 12 (IANS) Following the killing of a man by unknown assailants, a mob protesting the alleged murder laid siege to a police station in Assam's Kokrajhar district Monday, police said. Security has been beefed up after the incident.
Guwahati, Nov.5 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi recently led the people of his state in paying homage to victims of the October 30, 2008 serial blasts, and once again issued an appeal to militants to shun the path of violence.
Guwahati, Oct 29 (IANS) A minor boy was killed and five others were injured as suspected militants carried out a grenade attack in Assam's Udalguri district Monday evening, police said.
Guwahati, Sep 19 (IANS) The army and Assam police, during a joint operation, recovered four AK-47 rifles and ammunition from the Paneri area of Lower Assam's Udalguri district Wednesday, army sources said.
Guwahati, Sept 6 (IANS) Tension gripped the Udalguri district in troubled Bodo areas of Assam Thursday after police recovered the body of a youth missing since last month.
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) The ethnic violence in Assam which led to an exodus of thousands of northeastern people from other parts of India was not a Hindu-Muslim clash, a central minister from the region has said.
After maintaining three days silence, a fresh violence reoccurred in Assam's super-sensitive Kokrajhar district killing three and injured two..................
Guwahati, Aug 7 (IANS) Three people were killed and two injured as fresh violence broke out in Assam's communally volatile Kokrajhar district, police said Tuesday.
Guwahati, July 28 (IANS) Sharing the "pain" of Assam riots victims, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday called for an immediate end to the violence and promised "a proper inquiry" into the clashes that have claimed 45 lives and left lakhs homeless.
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The government Saturday said nearly 6,500 personnel of central paramilitary forces have been readied for Assam in the wake of sectarian clashes that have killed at least 45 people in the northeastern state.
Guwahati, July 28 (IANS) Sharing the "pain" of Assam riots victims, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said it was now "time for healing" and assured them of government help to meet their needs.
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) The central government Friday airlifted doctors and para-medics to provide medical help to hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced and are living in relief camps following sectarian violence in Assam.
Guwahati, July 27 (IANS) Normalcy is slowly returning in Assam's violence-hit Bodo areas, where week-long communal clashes claimed 45 lives, with no reports of any fresh incidents of violence being reported from anywhere in the affected areas since Thursday, the government said.
The Communal violence between Bangladeshi refugee Muslims and Bodo tribals spreads to new areas of Assam in Kokrajhar and Chirang districts despite rising security and continuous vigilance. As much as 1,70,000 people have been affected from this violence..................
Guwahati, July 10 (IANS) Five cadres of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland's (NDFB) anti-talk faction and a linkman of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) were arrested in two separate incidents in Assam Tuesday, police said.
Guwahati, July 1 (IANS) The Indian Army has arrested two militants in Assam, official sources said Sunday.
Guwahati, June 21 (IANS) Eight persons have been killed in the floods in Assam that have affected at least 15 districts, a minister said Thursday, adding that large tracts of land are submerged uprooting vast populations.
Guwahati, May 7 (IANS) The Guwahati police Monday arrested a cadre of the anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) from a rented house here, a police official said.
Guwahati, April 30 (IANS) Troops from the Red Horns division of the Indian Army, based in Udalguri district of lower Assam, have arrested four hardcore cadres of the anti-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) from a remote location on the Indo-Bhutan border in the district, an official said Monday.
Guwahati, March 24 (IANS) The Assam government has been losing a huge sum of revenue as tea growers in the four Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD), on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, are forced to sell their produce in West Bengal due to lack of proper market in the area.
Guwahati, Apr 3 (ANI): Dapon, the Mirror of Tangla, a renowned cultural organization of Assam's Udalguri District has recently organised a month-long theatre and vocational training for the dwarfs to prove that they are also valued parts of the civil society.
New Delhi, Nov 12 (ANI): Home Minister P Chidambaram will undertake a day-long visit to Assam today to review the law and order situation in the wake of killings by National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants and the proposed dialogue with ULFA.
Guwahati, Feb 19 (ANI): Grand cultural performances followed the award ceremony dominated the 8th formation day of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC).
Guwahati, Jan 26 (ANI): Repeated grenade blasts have created an atmosphere of insecurity across Assam provoking anger among people.
Guwahati, April 7 (IANS) A maximum security alert was sounded in Assam Tuesday, a day after a series of explosions rocked the state ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's arrival here for poll campaigning. The toll in the blasts rose to 10 with two of the 61 injured succumbing to their injuries.
The victims of group clashes that broke out last month in middle Assam were offered aids by the Assam State Branch of the Indian Red Cross Society (and the International Committee of Red Cross).
The civil society organisations and women advocacy groups of Northeast India have strongly condemned the rape of two indigenous women in middle Assam
Guwahati, Oct.22 (ANI): The recent violence in Udalguri and Darrang districts of north Assam has left local residents of the region, devastated. The victims of the communal riot appeal all to restore peace and harmony to let the normal life resume.
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the second time Monday as Assam MP S.K. Bwiswmuthiary staged a sit-in protest over the ethnic violence in his state that has claimed 49 lives earlier this month.
When we reached Bhakatpara M.E. School and L.P. School Relief camps in Darrang district of Assam on October 16, it was ten past half and the sun was bestowing its ample light and heat
The banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has made the government responsible for the recent violence that broke out in Darrang and Udalguri districts of Assam.
The chief minister of Assam is known as an honest and outspoken politician. But the senior Congress leader has earned bad name as he often makes casual comments in public.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi may not contest in the next 2011 Assembly elections. For, he is contemplating to retreat from active politics within three to four years.
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) There are no illegal Bangladeshi nationals staying in Assam, stated Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi here Monday, attributing the recent violence in his state to the handiwork of 'devious elements'.
Guwahati, Oct 12 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has demanded more companies of central security forces to prevent clashes between Bodo tribals and Bangladeshi settlers.
Koligaon (Assam), Oct 11 (ANI): Victims of ethnic violence and living in relief camps in Assam are yearning for peace and normalcy after being forced to flee their homes following clashes between Bodo tribals and Bangladeshi settlers.
Guwahati, Oct 11 (ANI): The Assam Government has decided to institute a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the latest communal clashes that led to the death of 55 persons and wounded over 100 people in Udalguri and Darrang districts in the state.
Guwahati, Oct 11 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today asked the district administration of violence-hit Udalguri and Darrang Districts to formulate an action plan to prevent any flare ups in the future.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will investigate the whole incident of group clashes in Udalguri and Darrang districts of Assam that erupted on Oct 2, 2008.
Assam has witnessed continuous violence and unrest throughout the last few decades, but the recent ethnic clashes in some of its districts
Udalguri (Assam), Oct 10 (IANS) Thousands of people hit by the ethnic clashes in Assam, which have claimed at least 55 lives, are now craving for peace and willing to return to their homes, setting aside the bitter animosity of the past few days.
Guwahati, Oct 9 (ANI): The situation in violence-affected Udalguri and Darrang districts of Assam is limping back to normalcy.
Guwahati, Oct 6 (ANI): The death toll in Assam's Udalguri and Darrang districts, dogged by clashes between Bodos and illegal Bangladeshi migrants, rose to 40 on Saturday with the violence spreading to neighbouring Chirang district.
Udalguri (Assam), Oct 6 (IANS) Authorities in Assam Monday said the violence over the weekend that killed 32 people and injured more than 100 was systematic ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a rebel group fighting for an independent tribal homeland.
Guwahati, Oct 5 (IANS) The toll in three days of clashes between two communities in Assam has mounted to 30, more than 100 have been injured, and about 30,000 people have been displaced, officials said Sunday.
Guwahati, Oct 5 (IANS) Four people were killed Sunday when the police opened fire at mobs of angry villagers in three different locations in Assam, taking the death toll in three days of clashes to 20, officials said.
Guwahati, Oct 4 (IANS) Shoot at sight orders were issued Saturday in Assam's curfew bound district of Udalguri, where seven people were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes between two communities even as a cluster of villages were set ablaze, officials said.
Guwahati, Oct 3 (IANS) At least two people were killed, one of them in police firing, and 10 injured, besides dozens of houses were burnt Friday in Assam's Udalguri district in clashes between two communities, the police said.
The communal violence between Bodo tribals and migrant Muslims have so far claimed at least 33 lives in the last three days in the north Assam districts of Udalguri and Darrang.
Guwahati, Oct 5 (ANI): Over 25 people have been killed in communal clashes in Assam as the situation turned critical between the local tribals and Bangladeshi migrants in Udalguri and Darrang Districts of the state, according to unconfirmed reports.
Guwahati, Oct 3 (ANI): Following clashes between two groups in Assam's Udalguri District on Friday, at least one person was killed and eight were seriously injured.
Guwahati, Oct 4 (IANS) Shoot at sight orders were issued Saturday in Assam's curfew bound district of Udalguri, where seven people were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes between two communities even as a cluster of villages were set ablaze, officials said.
Guwahati, Oct 3 (ANI): Following clashes between two groups in Assam's Udalguri District on Friday, at least one person was killed and eight were seriously injured.
Guwahati, Oct 3 (IANS) At least two people were killed, one of them in police firing, and 10 injured, besides dozens of houses were burnt Friday in Assam's Udalguri district in clashes between two communities, the police said.
