Prasanta Mazumdar

GUWAHATI: A Dhaka-Agartala “long march,” taken out on Wednesday by the members of Bangladesh Nationalist Party's three associate bodies against the recent “breach of premises” of the Bangladesh mission in Agartala, ended reportedly at Akhaura in Bangladesh with a rally by the protestors.

ASSAM: Baby Sarkar’s life took a harrowing turn after the birth of her first child, a girl. An occasion to rejoice became a nightmare when her mother-in-law thr

GUWAHATI: Tripura police arrested five persons in a case of alleged gang rape involving a minor girl.

GUWAHATI: Tripura police arrested five people for alleged gang-rape of a minor girl. The girl is hospitalised and not in a position to give her statement before a magistrate, police said.

GUWAHATI: A tribal organisation in Nagaland, fighting for separate statehood for the people of six “backward” districts in the state's eastern fringe, has accepted the Centre's offer of “Frontier Nagaland Territory (FNT), a “unique arrangement with executive, legislative and financial autonomy.”

GUWAHATI: The Special Task Force of Assam Police arrested eight operatives of terror group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) during simultaneous operations carried out in Kerala, West Bengal and Assam on the intervening night of December 17 and 18. The module was working to establish sleeper cells across the country, particularly in Assam and West Bengal.

Guwahati: Ashwin Kumar Mahanta, a senior spokesperson of Assam Congress, alleged he was bitten by a police officer during a scuffle in Guwahati on Friday.

The National Green Tribunal has come to the rescue of endangered feral horses in Assam's Dibru-Saikhowa National Park. The tribunal issued notices to the Centre and the state government seeking a status report of the animal. Taking note of reported falling number of feral horses due to smuggling, habitat loss and floods, it said urgent intervention was needed. The Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, located in Assam's eastern fringe, is one of the few places in the world which is home to feral horses. They are descendants of horses which bolted out of stables set up by the British Army in Tinsukia during World War II.

GUWAHATI: With the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognising tea from the Camellia sinensis plant is a healthy beverage, the North Eastern Tea Association (NETA) raised a toast to it.

Guwahati: With the insurgency problem in the Northeast more or less solved, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday advised the police in the region to change their approach and work to ensure that people get their rights, including the rights to life and property.