Goalpara District

A two-year-old boy in a remote village in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district has been diagnosed with symptoms of poliomyelitis or polio at a hospital in Assam's Goalpara, sounding an alarm over a potential return of the virus.

Houses of five people, including three rape and murder accused, were demolished in Assam's Goalpara district on Sunday for alleged encroachment on government land, officials said.

A Congress MLA was arrested by the Assam Police today for "malicious" speech allegedly targeting a particular community and "hurting religious sentiments" during a public meeting in the state's Goalpara district last week.

A woman BJP leader's body was found near a highway in Assam's Goalpara district yesterday. She has been identified as Jonali Nath, secretary of the BJP Goalpara district committee.

More than 100 people fell ill after participating in a ritual feast in Assam's Goalpara district, a senior health department official said on Thursday.

As the crackdown on child marriage continued in Assam, the police are now setting up additional prison facilities to house the accused, with two such arrangements in Goalpara and Cachar districts already in the offing.

At least three persons, including a child, were killed and two others injured after they were attacked by a herd of wild elephants in Assam's Goalpara district on Thursday, said Dhruba Dutta, the forest range officer of Lakhipur.

Assam Police has arrested three persons in connection with a private Miya Museum dedicated to the Miya Muslim community in Goalpara district on allegations of wrongful use of the premises.

A controversy has erupted after the All Assam Miya Parishad inaugurated a Miya Museum in Goalpara district last week. The state government has sealed the museum.

Five PFI leaders have been arrested from the Kamrup district, 10 from Goalpara, one from Karimganj, one from Udalguri, one from Darrang, three from Dhubri, two from Barpeta, and two from Baksa.

A day after the demolition of madrasas in Assam's Goalpara district, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said all demolished madrasas were not madrasas but Al-Qaeda offices.

A madrasa in Assam's Goalpara district was demolished by locals who alleged that the premises were used by two Bangladeshi nationals for terror activities, police said today.

At least three people including a child were killed in a wild elephant attack in Assam's Goalpara district along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

A local court in Assam's Goalpara district has awarded life imprisonment to a private school teacher for sexually abusing a minor girl student.

Two more accused persons have been injured in police encounters in Assam's Nagaon and Goalpara districts, senior officers said on Wednesday.

A two-year-old boy in a remote village in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district has been diagnosed with symptoms of poliomyelitis or polio at a hospital in Assam's Goalpara, sounding an alarm over a potential return of the virus.

Houses of five people, including three rape and murder accused, were demolished in Assam's Goalpara district on Sunday for alleged encroachment on government land, officials said.

A Congress MLA was arrested by the Assam Police today for "malicious" speech allegedly targeting a particular community and "hurting religious sentiments" during a public meeting in the state's Goalpara district last week.

A woman BJP leader's body was found near a highway in Assam's Goalpara district yesterday. She has been identified as Jonali Nath, secretary of the BJP Goalpara district committee.

More than 100 people fell ill after participating in a ritual feast in Assam's Goalpara district, a senior health department official said on Thursday.

As the crackdown on child marriage continued in Assam, the police are now setting up additional prison facilities to house the accused, with two such arrangements in Goalpara and Cachar districts already in the offing.

At least three persons, including a child, were killed and two others injured after they were attacked by a herd of wild elephants in Assam's Goalpara district on Thursday, said Dhruba Dutta, the forest range officer of Lakhipur.

Assam Police has arrested three persons in connection with a private Miya Museum dedicated to the Miya Muslim community in Goalpara district on allegations of wrongful use of the premises.

A controversy has erupted after the All Assam Miya Parishad inaugurated a Miya Museum in Goalpara district last week. The state government has sealed the museum.

Five PFI leaders have been arrested from the Kamrup district, 10 from Goalpara, one from Karimganj, one from Udalguri, one from Darrang, three from Dhubri, two from Barpeta, and two from Baksa.

A day after the demolition of madrasas in Assam's Goalpara district, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said all demolished madrasas were not madrasas but Al-Qaeda offices.

A madrasa in Assam's Goalpara district was demolished by locals who alleged that the premises were used by two Bangladeshi nationals for terror activities, police said today.

At least three people including a child were killed in a wild elephant attack in Assam's Goalpara district along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

A local court in Assam's Goalpara district has awarded life imprisonment to a private school teacher for sexually abusing a minor girl student.

Two more accused persons have been injured in police encounters in Assam's Nagaon and Goalpara districts, senior officers said on Wednesday.