NDA government talks tough on Northeast India insurgency, terror

Indian and Bhutanese officials in Bongaigaon on Wednesday. Picture by UB Photos Bongaigaon, Jan. 28 : A two-day meeting of top bureaucrats of Bhutan and Assam to discuss law and order issues on the Indo-Bhutan boundary areas got under way here ...

Eleonora Kastner was our oldest visitor at 101 when she came here in 2011 Tourism: It took just a visit to make her fall in love with Bhutan. Four years ago in 2011, Eleonora Kastner from Bavaria, a state of Germany, became the eldest tourist to ...

02:28 am Guwahati/New Delhi: Army chief General Dalbir Singh reviewed the security situation in Assam on Saturday after NDFB(S) militants killed more than 70 people this week. Singh directed his troops to carry out relentless operations against the ...

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Saturday sought support from Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay to counter violence perpetrated in Assam by Bodo rebels. Government officials here said that Modi discussed the security situation in Assam with Tobgay on the ...

Protesters block national highway at Sivasagar district of northeastern Assam state on Friday. The 12-hour bandh was called by All Adivasi students association against the massacre of innocent Adivasi people PTI In the aftermath of gruesome ...

The Union government today promised strong steps against NDFB(S) and was mulling approaching Bhutan seeking action against the outfit similar to operation against ULFA as the toll climbed to 78 in the carnage by Bodo militants and retaliatory ...

Dalbir Singh New Delhi, Dec. 30: The Indian Army has again waded into the minefield of ethnic rivalries in Assam, this time more practised but still wary of the political dirt its actions will throw up. Army chief General Dalbir Singh gave ...

GUWAHATI: Union Home Minister Rajnanth Singh on Thursday hinted at a rerun of 2003 Bhutan-type flushout operation against militants. For the same, the government is in talks with governments of Myanmar and Bhutan. Singh, who visited the ...

The year 2014 drew to a close with twin tragedies. A suicide attack at an Army-run school in Pakistan by Taliban militants claimed the lives of over 140 people, mostly children. An Air Asia flight carrying 162 people was recovered in the Java Sea ...