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Violence, threats to voters, damaged EVMs mark polling in strife-torn Manipur

India, April 19 -- Incidents of shooting, damage to electronic voting machines (EVMs), threats to voters and polling agents by armed miscreants and alleged rigging marked the first phase of polling in... Read More


Northeast: Stage set for polling in 13 LS seats, 50 assembly seats in Arunachal

India, April 18 -- Thirteen Lok Sabha seats in seven states of northeast, part of one Lok Sabha seat in strife-torn Manipur and 50 out of the 60 assembly seats in Arunachal Pradesh will go to polls on... Read More


Gauhati HC rejects Kokrajhar MP's plea challenging cancellation of ST status

India, April 18 -- The Gauhati high court on Thursday dismissed a petition by sitting MP Naba Kumar Sarania challenging a January 12 order of the state-level caste scrutiny committee (SLSC) that cance... Read More


No discrimination in policies, benefits reach all citizens: PM Modi in Assam

India, April 17 -- The policies of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at Centre are meant for all eligible citizens without any discrimination, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wedn... Read More


CAA is against provisions of Assam Accord: Priyanka Gandhi

India, April 16 -- Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday stated that the provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are against the Assam Accord signed nearly four decades ago. Addr... Read More


Congress seeks to make most of BJP's failure in keeping Assam ST status promise

India, April 16 -- In the run-up to the 2014 polls, Narendra Modi, who was then the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s prime ministerial candidate, met representatives of Assam's Tai Ahoms, Tea Tribes (Ad... Read More


Govt's priority to restore peace in Manipur keeping the state united: Amit Shah

India, April 15 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the priority of the next government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be to restore peace in strife-torn Manipur by talking ... Read More


BJP attempting to turn India into an authoritarian state, says Gogoi

India, April 12 -- In his 10-year-stint as a parliamentarian, Gaurav Gogoi has emerged out of his father, former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi's shadow and made a mark as a well-informed and aggres... Read More


Two Gogois battle it out to woo voters in Assam's Jorhat

India, April 11 -- It's a Tuesday morning at Chenijan in Assam's Jorhat, which means two markets in Assamese, and a motley crowd of young and old residents have gathered at the local community centre:... Read More


Nagaon: Where everyone thinks they have a chance of winning

India, April 10 -- Three Congress heavyweights from Assam - former ministers Pradyut Bordoloi and Rakibul Hussain and the party's incumbent deputy leader in Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi - wanted to contest... Read More