Assam's veteran CM Tarun Gogoi was a silent witness to the swindling conducted by Saradha Group. According to sources, Gogoi's government provided security for scamster Sen. He now assures that appropriate action would be taken against those who are guilty.
Headlines Today is in possession of damning evidence of how the government of Assam ran the extra mile to shield Saradha Group promoter Sudipta Sen even when thousands of investors lost their hard earned money.
Two people have been killed and several people have been injured in police firing in Assam's Goalpara district, when a body was recovered in a forest. A magistrate and a DSP went to recover the body, but were attacked by the locals. The ASP later went there ag...
Three people have been killed in police firing in the Goalpara district of Assam. This happened after locals clashed with the police and prevented them from entering the area, where the body of a man had been found. The police claim that they fired in self def...
Assam CM Tarun Gogoi has said that the CBI is already investigating the Saradha Group chit fund case in the state. Earlier, it was reported that the Assam police had started investigating two cases against the Group, which are from Guwahati and Jorhat. Gogoi h...
The probe on the Saradha group has been widening after the SEBI crack down on the ponzi mastermind Sudipta Sen. The Assam police have now started investigating two cases against the group which are in Guwahati and Jorhat. The Bengal government has frozen 35 ba...
A nine-year-child was gangraped in the Silchar district of Assam yesterday evening. The rapists tried to slit her neck and abandon her near a tea garden at Katigora in Silchar. A massive protest has been going on in the area. The schoolgirl was on her way to t...
Mild intensity tremors were felt in Assam. The epicentre of the earthquake, which lasted about 15 seconds, was 24kms south east of Guwahati. No causalities have been reported yet.
Visakhapatnam engineer Chintala Pydi Raju reached his hometown after being released by the Bodo militants. After a 12-day ordeal, the four-member gang that kidnapped Pydi Raju near Baska district in Assam, set him free and upon reaching Vizag, the engineer tha...
In this part of Finance Minister P Chidambaram's Budget 2013 speech, he speaks on funds allocation for strengthening the inland waterways, building the Sagar port in West Bengal and new policy changes for coal import, package for restructuring DISCOMS and also...
I walked for over fours days after my captors decided to release me, says Ch Pydiraju, the engineer who was kidnapped over 12 days back by suspected Bodo militants in Assam. Pydiraju hails from Visakhapatnam, and is working with contractor BC Seenaiah for the ...
The engineer from Visakhapatnam who was kidnapped in Assam has been released by suspected Bodo militants. Pydiraju worked with BC Seenaiah and Company, contractors for the Power Grid Corporation of India, in Assam. His family in Visakhapatnam is happy at his r...
Pydiraju, an engineer from Vishakhapatnam working with the Power Grid Corporation of Indian in Assam, was released after 12 days of captivity at the hands of militants. He was freed today morning at a railway station in Assam and the police are on their way to...
It has been six days since the engineer of the Power Grid Corporation of India Pyridraju was kidnapped in Assam by suspected Bodo militants. Pydiraju hails from Visakhapatnam and his family arrived in Assam.
Ch Pydiraju, an engineer working with the Power Grid Corporation of India in Assam has been kidnapped by suspected Bodo militants. Pydiraju is a native of Visakhapatnam. In this interview, the DGP of Assam Jayanta Narayan Choudhury says they have identified th...
The annual handicrafts exhibition held in Chandrashekharan Nair stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, attracts many. Manipuri sarees and shawls from Assam are what attracts the visitors the most. The exhibition has displayed handicrafts items from the North-East.
Two persons were killed and five others seriously injured in firing by the police and BSF personnel in lower Assam's Dhubri district today. A mob of 10,000 people tried to storm into a polling station, protesting the delay in counting of votes in Mancachar con...
Eight people were killed in police firing on mob that tried to enter a polling booth and prevent polling officials from doing their duty for the Panchayat elections in lower Assam. The Panchayat elections have been opposed by the local Rabhas community. The mo...
Tension began after groups opposing panchayat polls went on a rampage, torching vehicles and government buildings. Security has been beefed up as the local body elections are set to take place today.
Reports have revealed that although the ULFA chief Paresh Barua is lying low, the militant outfit continue to procure arms. The recent seizure of arms by the Assam police point to the fact that the ULFA is constantly strengthening itself by obtaining sophistic...
Reports of another blast comes from Tinsukia district of Assam. The blast, reportedly from an IED, occurred in an oil pipeline in the Makum area of the district. Paresh Baruah faction of the ULFA has claimed responsibility for the blast through a mail written ...
Four days after three children were killed in a blast in Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has hinted at a possible alliance of ISI, Maoists and the ULFA. He has also claimed that the ULFA anti-talk faction is behind the blasts. Security has been beefed up and...
A massive explosion has been reported in the Khaijan area of Digboi in Upper Assam. A 10-year-old girl, identified as Rinki Kumari lost her life in the blast. Four people, including two children have been injured. Police said that the cause of the explosion, w...
Three children were killed and several others injured in an explosion near a primary school in upper Assam's Tinsukia district today. Police said that the cause of the explosion, which took place at Kharjan pool area of Digboi town in the evening, is yet to be...
A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale has hit North East India. Tremors were felt in Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur. No damage has been reported so far. The epicentre of the earthquake is said to be the Indo-Myanmar border.
Inaction on the government's part has pushed agitated protesters over the edge. Displaying anger at its best, the people of Assam lashed out at a former MP who was accused of trying to rape a woman in Chirang. Meanwhile, two men who raped a class XII student i...
Inaction on the government's part has pushed agitated protesters over the edge. With the law dragging its feet and the cops making empty promises, the people's anger has reached a boiling point. The people of Assam lashed out at a former MP who was accused of ...
Breaking the silence, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh has slammed Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leader Akbaruddin Owaisi for his hate rant. Digvijay Singh has also demanded strict action against Congress leader Bikram Singh Brahma who tried to rape ...
Lower Assam Congress leader Bikrmasingh Brahma is accused of attempting to rape a married woman in her house. The 70-year-old is the chief coordinator of the party in the Bodoland Territorial Council. The villagers of Salbari beat up the politician before hand...
A eyewitness in the case of murder of a tea estate owner and his wife in Tinsukia, Assam, has said that the attackers first hacked to death the couple, then ate their flesh and drank their blood, before setting their bodies and building on fire. The attack, th...
Assam twin murder takes a grisly turn as the police claims that the killers allegedly ate the victim's flesh. Assam tea planter Mridul Bhattacharjee and his wife were reportedly charred to death by a mob on December 26.
In the restive Kokrajhar district of Assam, which saw violence between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims more than a month back, breaks out a fresh wave of violence raising the death toll to 11 in the last six days.
Five people are gunned down in Kokrajhar by unidentified men. The Home Secretary says more forces will be deployed as the fresh spate of violence rocks Assam again.
The Assam government has started a crackdown on those possessing illegal arms following a recent spurt in violence in Kokrajhar district over the past one week. A executive member of Bodoland Territorial Council Manu Kumar Brahma was arrested with an AK 47 rif...
Tensions prevail after fresh ethnic violence erupted in Assam's Bodoland area last week. While six people have died in five days, the Army has called for an indefinite curfew in the entire Kokrajhar district. The army is now conducting flag marches in various ...
The Ministry of Home Affairs has sent an advisory to both the Assam government as well as the ministry of defence. The police and the army have been put on high alert. The Ministry of defence has been asked to deploy the army in the state without any delay.
Following the fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Assam and deaths reported from Kokrajhar district, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called up Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi to discuss the law and order situation in the state. Five people have died in the...
Following a fresh outbreak of violence in Assam's Kokrajhar district which killed one person and injured another, an indefinite curfew has been implemented in the troubled district. The police suspect that militants are behind the killings. The army staged a f...
A tea garden owner was gunned down and his security guard was seriously injured by suspected NDFB faction insurgents in Assam on Tuesday. The militants fired about 15 rounds on the vehicle of Mahalaxmi Tea Estate proprietor Adilur Rahman at Nagda on the Assam-...
At the RSS National Council meeting on Saturday, Sri Krishna Gopal, RSS All-India Joint General Secretary expressed serious concern at the slow pace of 'border fencing' in Assam which it said is helping thousands of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh to enter ...
Guinness World Record holder, Assam policeman Abhijit Baruah, has scored yet another record by hitting the maximum number of punches in a minute on a boxing pad. The 23-year-old cop hit 329 punches on a boxing pad, at an event held in the Jorhat stadium of Guw...
A young boxer from Assam has punched 329 times in one minute. His six punches were declared void, but even the 329 declared valid are a world record. He has already entered the India and Asia records for this feat. Abhijeet Barua of Jorhat has already entered ...
An earthquake of moderate intensity measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, shook the already traumatised Assam and other parts of the north-eastern region, on Wednesday. The epicentre of the tremor that occurred at 12.30 AM, was in central Assam's Sonitpur distri...
The Chinese and Pakistani agencies are working together to create mayhem in the north eastern parts of India. The Research and Analysis Wing has sent a note to the Home Ministry, stating that the Chinese have been financing the Inter-Services Intelligence on i...
The forest officials recently rescued a rhinoceros, after it took shelter in a swamp of a near by village, when the Kaziranga National Park experienced heavy floods in Assam. The rhino was stuck for close to 10 hours before forest officials rescued it on Satur...
Two more rhinoceroses were shot at by poachers in the Kaziranga National Park on Thursday, in two separate incidents. Over the past three days a total of three rhinos, were shot at for their horns. While the forest officials were patrolling, they found the rhi...
With almost 16 districts still under water, the flood situation remains to be serious in Assam. Eighteen people have died and more than 17 lakh people have been displaced. The swollen Brahmaputra river continues to rise, flooding more areas of the state.
There are widespread outrage over the killings of rhinos in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. Reports reveal that 13 rhinos have been killed in the last nine months. CBI probe has been demanded to bust the growing organized poaching.
Fifteen districts and more than 700 villagers in Assam are affected by floods. In eastern Uttar Pradesh, Barabanki, Gonda and Varanasi people are facing a threat from the rising waters of the Ganga. Nature's fury has forced lakhs to move to safer places. Vast ...
Flash floods and landslides in Sikkim have killed 29 people. Nearly 8 lakh people have been rendered homeless in Assam and Sikkim. Incessant rains causing the rise in water levels is making the rescue operations highly difficult in the area.
One person was killed and eight were injured in a powerful bomb explosion at Sivasagar in Upper Assam on Monday at 9 PM. The anti-talk faction of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is behind the attack, informs the police.
Flash floods and landslides in Sikkim have killed 29 people. Nearly 8 lakh people have been rendered homeless in Assam and Sikkim. The incessant rains are making the rescue operations immensely difficult.
An improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Sivasagar town of upper Assam has killed one person. Twelve people have been reportedly injured in the incident. Although no one has claimed responsibility for the incident, the ULFA is suspected to be behind the b...
Floods have woven a tale of destruction in several north-eastern states, and in some districts of Uttar Pradesh. In Assam, 27 districts have been affected. Across Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, vast areas have been covered by a sheet of water. Army and a...
Landslides triggered by heavy rains and floods destroyed property and claimed 21 lives in the Chungthang region of the Northern part of Sikkim. The body of a junior engineer from the Border Road Organisation was also recovered.
Incessant rainfall in Assam result in close to 700 villages being submerged in 14 districts of the State. More than eight lakh people have been left homeless while the trapped ones are being rescued by the Airforce and the Army. The relief and rescue efforts h...
Incessant rainfall in Assam result in close to 700 villages being submerged in 14 districts of the State. More than eight lakh people have been left homeless while the trapped ones are being rescued by the Airforce and the Army. The relief and rescue efforts h...
Heavy rainfall in Sikkim causes landslides and floods. More than 24 have lost their lives in the floods and several are reportedly missing. The Army and Airforce have been on rescue missions ever since the situation spiralled out of control.
The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Congress' ally in Assam, has said that it is closely observing the political situation and that the party's core committee is set to take a decision on whether or not to support the Congress over the issue of FDI ...
Displaced villagers of strife-torn districts of Kokrajhar, Dhubr and Chirang of Assam refuse to return home as tension continues to prevail in these areas. Villagers who are in the relief camps have said that they live in fear and uncertainty. The villagers ar...
Ban on bulk SMSes following the Assam violence and the rumour mongering that led to a mass exodus of the people from the North-east has hurts many businesses as diverse as retail trade, chit funds, brokers, colleges, banks, construction, schools, advertising, ...
Following another outbreak of violence in Assam, the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi appeals to the people to stay calm and stop spreading rumours immediately. A complete shut-down has been called for in the State and security forces are on the lookout for three ar...
Violence struck Assam again today with incidents reported in Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon. Ten houses were set ablaze in Borpeta. The violence followed the 12-hour bandh on Monday, which was imposed by the Bajrang Dal. The strike was supported by VHP and RSS.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi speaks to the media as fresh violence breaks out in parts of Assam. The areas affected are Bongaigaon, Borpeta and Kokrajhar. There have been reports of firing in Bongaigaon and a curfew has been imposed in Borpeta where 10 houses we...
Congress President Sonia Gandhi has addressed MPs and asked them to stop being defensive. The Govt is open to the possibility of a mid-term poll though it has 18 months to go before completing its term. AICC General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi speaks to the me...
The Congress is sharpening its weapons. Rather party president Sonia Gandhi is asking them to sharpen the weapons. She told her MPs at the Congress Parliamentary committee meeting before the start of the Lok Sabha session. Sonia, party spokerperson Janardhan D...
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi steps up defence and slams BJP at a Parliamentary meeting. She calls the dispruption of Parliament disrespectful. The 'motamaal' comment is another sore spot and Congress has objected to it. Sonia states that there is no case again...
Fresh violence is reported in Fakiragram of the Kokrajhar district in Assam, where 30 houses were set ablaze. Five grenades were thrown into the settlements and the firing is still on.
Security has been beefed up and curfew has been imposed in the Chirang district of Assam for an indefinite period in the wake of fresh violence. Security is on alert in the neigbouring districts of Kokrajhar and Dhubri.
Another 60-day-old economic blockade on NH-39, the border between Assam and Nagaland, has been lifted. This comes after Nagaland police retracted objections made against Assamese farmers, who were cultivating on 250 bighas of land. However, the fight for land ...
Arup Patnaik has been replaced by Satya Pal Singh, Addnl DG (Law and Order) as the police commissioner of Mumbai. He has been promoted to DG post. Patnaik was blamed for not ensuring adequate force when a mob went berserk, attacked police and media at Azad Mai...
The government is mulling the possibility of placing a temporary ban on Twitter, for not meeting its deadline to remove the hate pages from its site. Despite repeated requests, Twitter has not yet responded to the IT Ministry's notice. The government may even ...
Pradeep Brahma of Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF), an ally of the ruling Congress in Assam, has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the Assam unrest. Seven cases have been registered against Brahma. He has been arrested on the basis of statements made by...
Special trains will run from Assam to other parts of the country from Sept 1. Assamese who want to return to their offices or educational institutions can utilise these trains as well as the helplines that are being set up. Home Secretary of Assam GD Tripathi ...
The United States has refused to assist India in tracking down the origin of 'hate terror' claiming that it stands by its commitment to complete internet freedom. India had sought the assistance of America in tracking down the IP addresses of websites containi...
Headlines Today reaches riot-ravaged Kokrajhar to unravel the truth behind the callous killings of the innocents. Even though the unrest in the area has subsided, the conditions in the relief camps are pathetic. People who are forced to seek relief in these ca...
It was the biggest show of strength for Raj Thackeray and his MNS. Despite no police permission, he and supporters walked to Azad Maidan, gave a roaring speech, attacking the state government, Home Minister RR Patil and police commissioner Arup Patnaik. It was...
MNS chief Raj Thackeray, in the final part of his speech at Azad Maidan, blasts Dalit leaders like Mayawati, RS Gavai and Ramdas Athavale for keeping silent on the desecration of Buddha statues in Lucknow during a protest rally there called to protest the viol...
When he speaks, he is cheered for each statement, that drips with sarcasm. He panders of course majorly to the anger against the violence of August 11 in which media, policemen and policewomen are attacked. MNS chief Raj Thackeray's speech at Azad Maidan start...
Nearly 70,000 people reach Girgaum Chowpatty and Azad Maidan, the start and ending point of MNS chief Raj Thackeray's rally in Mumbai to protest the violence at Azad Maidan on August 11. Raj has yet to reach the Azad Maidan, but he visits the Siddhivinayak tem...
More than 70,0000 supporters of Raj Thackeray and his MNS are expected to attend the public meeting at Azad Maidan. But police has not given permission to MNS to hold the rally from Marine Drive to Azad Maidan. More than 10,000 policemen have been pressed into...
It is said to be the biggest rally of Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. Lakhs gather at Girgaum Chowpatty to begin the rally to Azad Maidan, despite the police denying permission for holding a rally. A permission has been allowed for a meeting at Aza...
Raj Thackeray and his MNS supporters have gathered in large numbers at Girgaum Chowpatty, to walk in a rally to Azad Maidan. Their rally is to protest the August 11 violence at Azad Maidan and the police ineffectiveness in tackling it.
MNS chief Raj Thackeray is holding a meeting at Azad Maidan grounds in Mumbai, where days earlier a similar meeting to protest the violence in Assam saw attacks on police, and destruction of public property and the Amar Jawan Jyoti. Thackeray has got permissio...
Social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube have confirmed that the source of most of the hate videos was Pakistan. They also confirmed that the images used were morphed. As it is outside India's jurisdiction the websites cannot remove the content which ...
MNS chief Raj Thackeray will hold a rally at Azad Maidan, the same venue where a few days back a mob of Muslims went berserk and attacked police, media and locals and destroyed public property and the Amar Jawan Jyoti. The Shiv Sena organised a protest on Mond...
The Indian government has blocked 89more websites for spreading rumors, trying to incite people and spread falsehoods about the violence in Assam. These websites are mostly run by Pakistanis and have been accused of inciting Muslims in the name of atrocities i...
The government moved to block 89 more websites. Yesterday 110 websites blamed for spreading rumours related to the violence in Assam and Myanmar were blocked. These websites, many of them managed by Pakistanis and using morphed content of alleged atrocities ag...
The Indian security agencies have compiled a list of websites and sources of SMSes originating from Pakistan, whose sole purpose was to incite Muslims against supposed atrocities in Assam and Myanmar, and also issue threats to people of the North-East and forc...
Today's top stories: A report prepared by the Home Minister's office says fake videos were uploaded to create panic among Northeast Indians. 150 websites have been banned and a man has been arrested in Bareilly; Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik asks I...
India lodges protest with Pakistan after discovering many of the rumours originated in Pakistan. Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik talks to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde though Pakistan still refuses to take responsibility. India will raise the issue...
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has remarked that he had suspected the involvement of anti-India forces in spreading fear among the people from the northeast even before the report indicating the role of anti-India forces from Pakistan in spreading hate messa...