A medical team distributing medicines to the violence affected people at Titaguri relief camp in Kokrajhar on Friday. – UB Photos
11,000 security personnel for Assam; plane with relief sent
NEW DELHI, July 28 (PTI): The Centre has authorised the Assam government to deploy more than 11,000 paramilitary personnel in the state's violence-hit districts and dispatched a C-130J Hercules aircraft with medical teams and supplies. ...More paramilitary forces readied for Assam
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. ...
It's time for healing: PM tells Assam victims
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. ...
PM announces Rs 300-crore relief for Assam victims
GUWAHATI, July 28 (IANS): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday announced Rs.300 crore assistance for relief and rehabilitation measures for the violence-affected areas of Assam. ...
Violence not communal: Gogoi
GUWAHATI, July 27 – A day after his visit to the trouble-torn districts of BTAD, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that had the Army been deployed sooner, the situation would not have aggravated this much. ...
Curfew relaxed in Kokrajhar
KOKRAJHAR, July 27 – The curfew imposed in Kokrajhar was relaxed for 12 hours from 6am today, as there is a semblance of normalcy, even as police recovered a dead body near railway over bridge at Kokrajhar Town this afternoon and another four from Go ...
Normaly slowly returning to Kokrajhar
KOKRAJHAR, July 27 – Some semblance of normalcy was seen in this violence-hit district today even as the administration relaxed curfew. ...
AASU, allies to visit BTAD areas
GUWAHATI, July 27 – A delegation of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and its ally organisations like the Assam Tribal Sangha, All Assam Tribal Youth League, Mising Mimag Kebang, All Rabha Students’ Union, among others, will set out to the trouble ...
