Nagaon

Villager saves Janasatabdi Express in Assam

Morigaon (PTI): A major accident was averted on Monday when a villager stopped an express passenger train on finding that the sleeper of a railway track missing at a place near Thekeraguri railway station in Assam's Nagaon...

Assam: A little India

The state, home to 115 tribes and 14 languages, is a microcosm of India. Rahul Karmakar travels from Dhubri near the border to Guwahati at the centre — and finds that Assam is fighting the same battles as India...Assam's legends.

Assam blasts case: 7 more detained

Guwahati: The City police on Thursday picked up seven persons from lower Assam’s Nalbari district in connection with the October 30 serial blasts. Additional Superintendent of Police Dabojit Deuri told The Hindu that ...

A natural process of transformation

A critical look at the claim that Hinduism does not enjoin conversions as the so-called revealed religions do. A peculiar aspect of the controversies about religious conversions — leaving aside the absence of verifiable data...

Gunmen kill 3 merchants in Assam

GUWAHATI: Unidentified gunmen shot dead three timber merchants belonging to the Hindi-speaking community near Sukajuri under Chamguri police station in central Assam’s Nagaon district bordering Karbi Anglong district on Monday...

Strike hits life in India state

The police have detained a few people in connection with the serial blasts A strike called by a powerful local student group has paralysed life in India's north-eastern state of Assam. The strike has been called by the All...

Nellie , February 18, 1983 - 1,819 dead

It’s been 25 years, and Abdul Sattar has perfected a fine art: getting used to living with those who he believes wiped out his family. Sattar, 48, is a resident of Borbori village, one of 13 villages in the Assam’s Nellie area...

Cops shift focus from cars to SIM

The arrest of a member of a car theft racket has convinced the Assam Police that the cars used in the three major blasts here last Thursday would take them nowhere, report Rahul Karmakar & Digambar Patowary.

Police verifying identity of Islamic Security Force

Unconfirmed reports of formation of an outfit by this name in 2000-2001 — Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi showing the bomb blast site to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in...

Car bombs were used in Guwahati blasts

1 Nov 2008, 0307 hrs IST, Prabin Kalita,TNN GUWAHATI: The three blasts here were all car bombs. A previously unknown outfit, the ISF-Indian Mujahideen, has claimed responsibility but investigators are probing to what extent...

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