Keshab Mahanta

Suspected ULFA (I) militants shoot dead five persons in Assam's Tinsukia; Sarbananda Sonowal condemns incident

The incident occurred at Kherbari village in Assam, when cadres of the outfit allegedly picked them up and took them to the Brahmaputra river bank.

Flash floods triggered by monsoon kill dozens and displace lakhs in North East India, Bangladesh

The Brahmaputra river that flows from the Himalayas down to India and Bangladesh, has burst its banks, causing floods in more than 1,500 villages in Assam.

Assam neighbours encroach nearly 80,000 hectares of state land

The states include Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura, a Assam minister said.