The Latest Breaking News from Assam

GUWAHATI: Law-enforcing agencies in Assam, battling Ulfa insurgency for decades, may have another big security problem at hand with Maoist rebels on the run from central and south India setting up base on the outskirts of Guwahati city.

Villagers of six areas of dispute between Assam and Meghalaya were asked to give their consent for inclusion in either State towards ending a 50-year-old boundary dispute. An agreement between the States has led to friction between the ‘Meghalaya supporters’, mostly Garos, and the ‘Assam supporters’, mostly non-Garos, reports Rahul…

GUWAHATI: Assam students, who have returned from Sumy city in Ukraine, are facing a big dilemma, as the Assam medical education directorate has failed to offer them alternatives so far to continue with their studies. Sumy State University authority is not conducting online classes either.

A 9th standard student from Assam's Karimganj has designed a sensor-enabled smart shoe for visually impaired persons.

India’s northeastern Assam state has organized its first top contest of female bodybuilders.

The State-Owned Priority Development fund was set up in 2020 to establish 119 model high schools across Assam’s tea belt

NOIDA: Big city dreams were all she was about. So, in 2018, a woman from Assam packed her few belongings and came to Noida with the promise of a job. Instead, she was “sold” to a 55-year-old businessman who raped and tortured her for four years in a highrise in…

The lifting of AFSPA from most parts has put the States in a transformative mode, says Law Minister

The agreement to resolve six disputed points along the Assam-Meghalaya border is a model for others