Politics / Assam

GUWAHATI, Dec 1: At least eight persons including one Army Major were killed and 10 others were injured in a clash between Armymen and villagers at Biharikota village near Kolitakuchi area under Hajo police station this afternoon. According to agency reports, nine persons were killed in the incident. The Inspector General of Police (Special Branch) Sri Khagen Sarma, said that it was a case of mistaken identity as the villagers mistook the Armymen as United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants and attacked them, and the Army platoon was forced to open fire in retaliation. Sri Sarma said...

Guwahati, Dec. 1: Nine persons, including a major and a sepoy, were today killed in bizarre circumstances at a village near Hajo in Kamrup district of Assam.

The mayhem was sparked by a mob that mistook a group of seven army personnel in civvies for a group of extortionists. Hajo police said the mob attacked the soldiers, all from the Assam Regiment, when they entered a teacher?s house in Athiyabari to enquire about an Ulfa militant.

The mob killed two members of the army team and their civilian driver with sharp weapons, prompting the remaining personnel to open fire on the attackers. Six...

GUWAHATI, July 15? The 24-hour rail-road-blockade called by Sanmilita Janagosthiya Sangram Samity (SJSS) from this morning in protest against creation of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) today disrupted surface communication on Lower Assam areas and parts of Karbi Anglong district. Official sources here informed that the districts of Bongaigaon and Barpeta were the worst affected by the blockade as thousands of SJSS picketeers sat on railway tracks and the highway to block movements of traffic.

The NF Railway had a tough time today in re-routing and rescheduling both its Up and Down trains...

KOKRAJHAR, July 15 ? Nine Adivasi camp inmates including four women and a children were killed and six others injured when suspected NDFB militants fired indiscriminately in the relief camp (Bhuraka-Maligaon) just 28 km way from Kokrajhar police station yesterday night at about 10.45 pm. The slain Adivasi camp inmates were identified as Fulmoni Kisku (25), F Hasda (32), Malbo Hembram (30), Fulmoni Hasdo (40), Rajda Murmu (33), Rupu Hasda (45), Suraj Murmu (13), C Hasda (20) and Uku Hasda (5).

Five injured persons were being treated in RNB Civil Hospital in Kokrajhar Superintendent of Police...

GUWAHATI, July 13 ? As many as 11 tribal student organisations of the State today extended support to creation of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) while resolving to form a joint forum of all ethnic groups to raise the demand for ?more autonomy? to all tribal groups in the mould of the proposed BTC. A joint meeting of tribal students? organisation held here under the aegis of ABSU-BPAC in a resolution demanded immediate creation of the BTC while expressing concern over the effort made by the Sanmilita Jangosthiya Sangram Samity (SJSS) to throw a spanner in the process of formation of the...

GUWAHATI, July 13 ? Sanmilita Janagosthiya Sangram Samity (SJSS) today vowed to launch an intensive democratic movement besides moving the Court in case the Government created the BTC ignoring opposition from the 80 per cent of non-Bodo population in the proposed BTC area.

The SJSS leaders including the deputy chief Brajen Mahanta today stated that creation of the BTC would pave way for further disintegration of the State disrupting the process of formation of a ?greater Assamese nation.? Calling upon the people to make the SJSS called 24-hour railway and road blockade programme on July...

GUWAHATI, July 8 ? The United Minority Front (UMF) has raised its strong opposition to the approval given by the State Government for creation of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) without considering the social and political reality in the present Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC) area. The UMF in an emergent executive meeting held yesterday under the presidentship of Hafiz Rashid Choudhury ?with due respect to the sentiments of Bodo people? resolved that the issue of autonomy to Bodo people should be settled on the basis of Bhupinder Singh Committee report.

The UMF president Hafiz Rashid...

GUWAHATI, July 5? The Sanmilita Jana-Gosthiya Sangram Samity, an umbrella organisation of 19 groups, has criticised the State Government for granting approval to creation of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). In a statement, the leaders of the Samity said that the State Governemnt is trying to fragment the lower Assam by granting the BTC. ?Our demand is that more autonomy should be given to the Bodo people as per the recommendations of the Bhupinder Committee report, but we will not accept BTC,? the leaders said.

Reacting sharply to the State Government?s move to include 3,070 villages...

NEW DELHI, July 4? An expert committee comprising officials of both Union and Assam Government would now draft the proposals for safeguard of the non-Bodos to pave the way for amendment of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution leading to creation of a Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). But hurdles for smooth resolution of the Bodo tangle still remained, with Assam Government springing a new surprise by demanding inclusion of Schedule Tribe status for Koch Rajbongshi and Adivasi community living within the Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC). Their demand for inclusion in the Schedule Tribe...

GUWAHATI, July 4? Taking advantage of the porous Indo-Bangla border, Bangladesh based organisation Jamat-E-Islami is trying to extend help to organisations like Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam (MULTA), security sources said here. Sources said that the gameplan of the Jamat-E-Islami came to light after the arrest of one MULTA activist Sahadat Hussain in Dhubri district. Sahadat, who hails from Chandpur district of Bangladesh, was sent to Jamat-E-Islami last year to spread the network of the organisation in Assam through the Islamic militant outfits active in Assam. He was given guidance...