Assam Dhubri Violence

• Assam poll violence: Two more killed in police firing in Dhubri

  Two people were killed today and 11 others seriously injured in firing by security men amid clashes at a panchayat vote counting centre in Assam's Hatsingimari subdivision where indefinite curfew has been imposed.

• In this Assam town, a determined effort to fight communal tension

  Dhubri town served as a refuge for hundreds of people who were affected by the recent ethnic violence in Assam, the worst in the state in over a decade.

• Blog: Rahul Gandhi visits refugees in Assam relief camps

  Six weeks into the violence that hit Lower Assam, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi joins the long list of politicians on relief camp tourism. He had a lot to cover in a day's time; camps in Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Chirang districts.

• Rahul Gandhi to visit troubled areas of Assam

  Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit the ethnic violence-hit areas of Assam on Tuesday. During his one day programme, Mr Gandhi will go to the trouble-torn districts including Dhubri and Kokrajhar, where the violence between the local Bodos and Bangladeshi settlers has snowballed into a major crisis.

• Seven-member Central team visits Assam relief camps

  A seven-member central team consisting of joint secretaries visited several relief camps in strife-torn Korakrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts today in lower Assam to take stock of the situation.

• Sonia Gandhi arrives in Assam, visits relief camps

  Congress president Sonia Gandhi arrived on her first visit today in Assam's troubled Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts, almost three weeks after it was affected by ethnic violence that left 77 people dead, and several lakhs displaced.

• Kokrajhar violence: Ground Zero report

  A serious humanitarian crisis is playing out in the riot-affected districts of lower Assam, with as many as four lakh people forced into relief camps across the districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Dhubri and a few other places. The exodus of people from the interior villages to these relief camps has still not ended, and those in these camps face an u...

• Assam violence: 1.5 lakh homeless, Army begins flag marches; 20,000 passengers stuck

  With ethnic violence escalating in lower Assam's Kokrajhar area, at least 13 columns of the Army has now been begun flag marches in Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Chirang and Bongaigaon in an attempt to assuage the situation. At least 32 people have died and 1.5 lakh people have been rendered homeless in ethnic clashes that started between two communities in ...