Bengalis Killed In Assam

Nearly a week after five people of Bengali origin were killed by unidentified terrorists in Assam's Tinsukia district, the nature of the crime is still under debate.

A team of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders has met the families of those massacred by suspected terrorists in Assam's Tinsukia district. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed anguish over the killings and said an "environment of violence" was prevailing in the country.

A day-long shutdown called to protest the killing of five people by a terrorist group two days ago evoked a mixed response in Assam today. It was successful in the Barak Valley region, parts of lower Assam and certain pockets of the Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts.

After five persons of the Bengali community were shot dead by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists in Assam's Tinsukia district, several political parties took to the streets to protest the killings. A dawn-to-dusk bandh called by several Bengali organisations is already in place. While vehicles remained off the roads, shops...

At least five people were killed by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Thursday evening. Reports suggestthe terrorists belonged to the ULFA's Paresh Baruah faction, the ULFA-Independent. But the outfit has denied any role in the attack.

For the four lakh people packed into relief camps in Assam, food, water and medicines are missing. They fled their homes in the worse communal violence in over a decade - 60 people have been killed in ethnic clashes between the indigenous Bodos and Bengali Muslims who inhabit parts of Lower Assam like Kokrajhar.

Nearly a week after five people of Bengali origin were killed by unidentified terrorists in Assam's Tinsukia district, the nature of the crime is still under debate.

A team of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders has met the families of those massacred by suspected terrorists in Assam's Tinsukia district. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed anguish over the killings and said an "environment of violence" was prevailing in the country.

A day-long shutdown called to protest the killing of five people by a terrorist group two days ago evoked a mixed response in Assam today. It was successful in the Barak Valley region, parts of lower Assam and certain pockets of the Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts.

After five persons of the Bengali community were shot dead by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists in Assam's Tinsukia district, several political parties took to the streets to protest the killings. A dawn-to-dusk bandh called by several Bengali organisations is already in place. While vehicles remained off the roads, shops...

At least five people were killed by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Thursday evening. Reports suggestthe terrorists belonged to the ULFA's Paresh Baruah faction, the ULFA-Independent. But the outfit has denied any role in the attack.

For the four lakh people packed into relief camps in Assam, food, water and medicines are missing. They fled their homes in the worse communal violence in over a decade - 60 people have been killed in ethnic clashes between the indigenous Bodos and Bengali Muslims who inhabit parts of Lower Assam like Kokrajhar.