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
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
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
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
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
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
A year has passed. But for Assam, it might as well have been yesterday. On Saturday, September 19, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took to his personal X account and posted two photographs alongside a message that needed no elaboration — “Miss you Zubeen.” Just three words. And yet, for a state still quietly … Read more
One year has passed. The questions haven’t. On Saturday, September 19, hundreds of fans, family members, and fellow artistes converged on Zubeen Khetra in Sonapur — a temporary memorial site on the outskirts of Guwahati — to mark exactly one year since the passing of Assamese music legend Zubeen Garg. The air was heavy with … Read more
Four years have passed since that historic handshake — and the Adivasi community in Assam is still waiting. On September 15, the Adivasi Welfare and Development Council gathered at the Public High School playground in Kachugaon to mark its fourth Accord Day — a reminder of the peace settlement signed on the same date back … Read more
He ran. He crossed state lines. But he couldn’t run far enough. A man with a known criminal history, wanted for the alleged kidnapping and sexual assault of a minor girl from Arunachal Pradesh’s remote Shi-Yomi district, has been arrested — caught in neighbouring Assam in what police are calling a successful inter-state joint operation. … Read more
