Rs 2.5 Lakh Gone, Son Attacked Too: Three Youths Accused of Robbing LIC Agent in Silchar

A son rushes to save his father and is allegedly attacked himself. In what is otherwise a short crime report, that is the detail that stays with you. The father is an LIC agent in Silchar. According to a report published Saturday by India Today NE, three youths allegedly assaulted him in the city’s Kalaratal … Read more

Two Crashes, One Dead, Four Badly Hurt: A Grim Friday on Guwahati’s Roads

GUWAHATI: A scooter is about as ordinary as it gets on an Assam road. On Friday, September 18, at Madhyam Khand in North Guwahati, two of them collided head-on, and a young woman did not survive. It was one of two separate accidents in and around the city that day. Together they left one person … Read more

Two Bongaigaon Youths Killed in Telangana Accident — Families Left Shattered Hundreds of Miles Away

They left home chasing a livelihood. They never came back. Two young men from Assam’s Bongaigaon district have died in an accident while working on a project in Telangana, sending shockwaves through their families and the local community back home. The deceased have been identified as Kasem Ali and Muktar Sheikh — both residents of … Read more

They Came Home to Die — Nambol Remembers the Soldiers Who Were Ambushed After Saving Lives

A year ago, two soldiers came back from helping flood survivors. They never made it home. On Friday, the town of Nambol made sure the world didn’t forget. Around 1,800 residents — ordinary people, community elders, and young men and women — gathered at Nambol in Manipur’s Bishnupur district on September 19 to mark the … Read more

When Those Meant to Protect Become the Ones You Fear: A 10-Year-Old Girl Rescued From a Police Couple’s Home in Guwahati

A little girl, just ten years old, was allegedly made to work as a domestic servant inside the very home of two police officers — people whose uniforms are supposed to stand for protection, not exploitation. Authorities rescued the child from a residence in Guwahati’s Odalbakra area on Friday, September 19, in what has quickly … Read more

Papon Gives Assam a Gift It Wasn’t Ready For — Zubeen Garg’s Voice, One More TimePapon Gives Assam a Gift It Wasn’t Ready For — Zubeen Garg’s Voice, One More Time

There are songs that live in recordings, and then there are songs that live in people. Today, one more of Zubeen Garg’s unheard voices is about to find its way into the world. On Saturday, September 19 — exactly on Zubeen Divas, the first anniversary of the beloved singer’s passing — Angaraag “Papon” Mahanta is … Read more

A Stolen Herd, a Speeding Car, and a Night That Ended in Death

Three o’clock in the morning is when bad decisions meet their consequences. In Assam’s Moran, that reckoning came in the form of a road divider — and it was brutal. A speeding vehicle carrying what police suspect was stolen cattle slammed into a road divider on the Khowang stretch early Saturday, killing two of its … Read more

Assam Police Stops 10 Alleged Infiltrators at Border — Himanta Says “We Remain Alert, ALWAYS!”

It was not your typical border security announcement. On Friday, September 18, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took to X to declare that Assam Police had successfully intercepted 10 alleged infiltrators attempting to enter India through the state’s border — and he delivered the news with a Bollywood punchline that only Himanta could manage … Read more

Doctors Attacked, Beer Bottles and Bloodshed — A Chaotic Night at Jorhat Medical College

It was supposed to be just another Friday night. Instead, the corridors of Jorhat Medical College and Hospital (JMCH) in Assam turned into a scene of chaos, anger, and fear after a group of local youths allegedly stormed in and attacked a doctor along with three final-year MBBS students — leaving the entire institution on … Read more

Owner Vanishes Into Thin Air, But 17,000 Yaba Tablets Don’t — Assam’s Crackdown Scores Big in Sribhumi

Someone clearly didn’t think their exit plan all the way through. In what turned out to be a significant drug bust on Friday, September 18, joint teams of the Border Security Force and Sribhumi Police recovered 17,000 Yaba tablets from the Gangpar area of Sribhumi district in Assam — with the person who owned the … Read more