The firing incident that took place after a clash between Meghalaya villagers and a contingent of police and forest guards from Assam has nothing to do with the border dispute between the two states, said Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. “Just to clarify that incident has nothing to do
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Congress leader Manish Tewari on Wednesday, while reacting to Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “Saddam Hussein” jibe at Rahul Gandhi, said that the Assam Chief Minister “sounds like a petty troll”. Sarma on Tuesday said that Rahul Gandhi “looks like Saddam Hussein”, who was the former Iraqi president and was executed by
A day after the violence at the Assam-Meghalaya border, Assam Congress has alleged that this was a “deliberate incident” and both Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya were aware of it. The firing incident happened on Tuesday where six persons including five from Meghalaya and one Assam Forest Guard were
A large number of houses and shops were gutted in a massive fire in the Lahorijaan area near Bokajan in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district along the Assam-Nagaland border on Wednesday. According to the police, several cylinders burst in the fire. One four-wheeler and three motorcycles have also been damaged in
The Assam government has requested the Central government for a CBI probe into the firing incident in the Mukroh area along the Assam-Meghalaya border, Assam minister Jayanta Mallabaruah said on Wednesday. The CBI probe demand comes a day after six people were killed in the firing incident in the Mukroh