Politics / Assam

Guwahati, July 16: The state Janata Dal (JD) on Friday expressed its willingness to work jointly with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) without any condition. Disclosing this, NCP spokesman for NE region Advocate Dilip Kumar Hazarika said that the state JD's move came in the wake of JD's central leaders Madhu Dandavate and Bapu Kaldate's move to work jointly with the NCP in Maharashtra recently. Meanwhile, State Lok Shakti has also expressed its willingness to merge with the NCP. However, as the NCP is yet to form its State Committee, the NCP has asked the State Lok Shakti president...

Guwahati, July 15: The banned militant outfit Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) has unilaterally decided to suspend its Operation Orgeng with immediate effect "to honour the sovereignty of the country" and urged the Centre to invite it for talks to amicably solve the vexed Bodo problem. In a press release to the local media here on Wednesday night, the BLT publicity wing in-charge Tulunga Ramchiary said the decision was taken in view of the country currently facing a national crisis. It said Pakistan's ISI and other anti-national separatist forces are taking advantage of the situation to work...

Guwahati, July 13: Unabated extortion by several militant outfits operating in the state has posed a serious threat to the economy, if any, of the state. Of late many business organisations have shifted their base from the state to Siliguri and other places to escape the huge extortion demands from extremist outfits. It is a known fact that various central organisations operating in the state are also receiving demands from militants as well as a section of armed miscreants. The field operations of many such central organisations have been brought to a grinding halt depriving the common people...

Guwahati, July 13: Charan Narzary who contested the last Lok Sabha polls from Kokrajhar constituency as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, has resigned from the party expressing his anguish over the performance of the State party leadership. However, the State BJP leadership here is unperturbed over resignation of Narzary, who lost the last election from Kokrajhar Lok Sabha constituency. The state BJP vice-president Parbati Goswami told The Assam Tribune that Narzary's resignation from the party was unlikely to have adverse affect on the party's poll prospect. He also informed that...

New Delhi, July 12: The Supreme Court on Monday gave six weeks time to the Centre and the governments of West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura to file affidavits on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking repatriation of over one crore Bangladeshi migrants illegally staying in India. A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice AS Anand, justice M Jagannadha Rao and justice Santosh N Hedge, while giving the time, observed that matter was of serious nature and the States and the Centre should not delay it further. The PIL filed by All India Lawyers Forum for Civil Liberties...

Guwahati, July 10: Three people have been killed and seven policemen injured in a clash at Naharbari Tea Estate in Sibsagar district of Assam, official sources said. More than 800 tea labourers from other gardens of the district attacked Naharbari Tea Estate on July 10 for non-participation in a bandh called by the Assam Tea Tribes Students' Association (ATTSA) and the Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangh (ACMS) on July 6. A guard of the tea garden was killed in the attack and the mob continued to stone the other inmates and the policemen who arrived at the spot to control the situation. As the situation...