North-east Ethnic Clashes

• Assam violence: Death toll rises to 38, train services hit

  Assam news: Six more people fell victim to unabated violence between minority immigrants and Bodos in three districts of lower Assam, taking the death toll in the ethnic strife to 38 even as the entire North-East remained cut off by rail for the second day today.

• Ethnic clashes: Guwahati-Howrah trains diverted

  All passenger trains between Guwahati and Howrah via Jogighopa have been diverted throughRangiya-Bongaigaon route following the ethnic clashes in lower Assam's Goalpara district and neighbouring East Garo Hills in Meghalaya.North East Frontier Railway sources said all major trains originating from here which are to take the Jogigopha section are be...

• Four dead in ethnic clashes in North-East; thousands displaced

  Four people were killed and more than a thousand displaced after ethnic clashes broke out between the Rabha and Garos communities along the Assam-Meghalaya border in the Goalpara district of Assam and East Garo hills. At least 15 villages were set on fire in retaliatory violence and the situation is very volatile. Curfew has been imposed in the Eas...