Urmimala Bhattacharjee

Even though rains have weakened and the flood waters are receding in Assam, they have left 64 people dead since June and affected over 10 lakh people, as many of them were marooned in lower parts of the state, getting little or no relief, life has become uncertain for thousands in the relief camps.

Seven militants of the armed rebel group NSCN-K, including a woman, were killed by the Army in an encounter in Nagaland's Tuensang district today.

A local channel in Assam has provoked public anger after it ran a deeply offensive report that complained about young women being "scantily-dressed".

With details of this month's peace accord between the Centre and the rebel group Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) or NSCN (IM) still not known, there is worry in the North-East after Naga leader Thuingaleng Muivah said in speeches that "Naga integration" is part of the accord's agenda.

At least seven people, including three children and a woman, were killed and 21 others injured in a lightning strike in Assam's Barpeta district today.

In the first pictures of a flood-ravaged village of Manipur, all that can be seen is a green tarpaulin roof. Rains and landslides seem to have washed away everything else.

Tension prevailed in lower Assam's Nalbari district when one security personnel shot dead his colleague while being on duty at a mass protest this morning.

A powerful bomb, weighing seven kg, was recovered from a train compartment in Assam's Kamrup (Rural) district today, police said.

Earlier this month, 40 children were rescued from a Mumbai fish canning factory by a local NGO. But Assam's human trafficking crisis runs deep.

Two people have been killed in fresh clashes between the police and protesters today in Golaghat near the Assam-Nagaland border. The police said a mob of about 4000 adivasis or tribals, carrying bows and arrows and spears, attacked policemen and set fire to a picket.

Over 350 people have died due to an outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis or JE and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in Assam in the last few weeks.

Himanta Biswa Sarma, who resigned as a minister from the Congress government led by chief minister Tarun Gogoi, today launched a scathing attack on the party leadership, saying there was no internal democracy.

Tripura has been battling malaria for the past two months. A fresh outbreak has compounded the already grim situation, leading to deaths of 120 people across the state.

Seven people have died in the last 15 hours in Guwahati after flash floods

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi's fate continues to hang in balance, with the dissidents scaling up their efforts seek his ouster. And the person spearheading the campaign is his erstwhile protege; Himanta Biswa Sarma, the state's powerful health minister.

Even though rains have weakened and the flood waters are receding in Assam, they have left 64 people dead since June and affected over 10 lakh people, as many of them were marooned in lower parts of the state, getting little or no relief, life has become uncertain for thousands in the relief camps.

Seven militants of the armed rebel group NSCN-K, including a woman, were killed by the Army in an encounter in Nagaland's Tuensang district today.

A local channel in Assam has provoked public anger after it ran a deeply offensive report that complained about young women being "scantily-dressed".

With details of this month's peace accord between the Centre and the rebel group Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) or NSCN (IM) still not known, there is worry in the North-East after Naga leader Thuingaleng Muivah said in speeches that "Naga integration" is part of the accord's agenda.

At least seven people, including three children and a woman, were killed and 21 others injured in a lightning strike in Assam's Barpeta district today.

In the first pictures of a flood-ravaged village of Manipur, all that can be seen is a green tarpaulin roof. Rains and landslides seem to have washed away everything else.

Tension prevailed in lower Assam's Nalbari district when one security personnel shot dead his colleague while being on duty at a mass protest this morning.

A powerful bomb, weighing seven kg, was recovered from a train compartment in Assam's Kamrup (Rural) district today, police said.

Earlier this month, 40 children were rescued from a Mumbai fish canning factory by a local NGO. But Assam's human trafficking crisis runs deep.

Two people have been killed in fresh clashes between the police and protesters today in Golaghat near the Assam-Nagaland border. The police said a mob of about 4000 adivasis or tribals, carrying bows and arrows and spears, attacked policemen and set fire to a picket.

Over 350 people have died due to an outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis or JE and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in Assam in the last few weeks.

Himanta Biswa Sarma, who resigned as a minister from the Congress government led by chief minister Tarun Gogoi, today launched a scathing attack on the party leadership, saying there was no internal democracy.

Tripura has been battling malaria for the past two months. A fresh outbreak has compounded the already grim situation, leading to deaths of 120 people across the state.

Seven people have died in the last 15 hours in Guwahati after flash floods

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi's fate continues to hang in balance, with the dissidents scaling up their efforts seek his ouster. And the person spearheading the campaign is his erstwhile protege; Himanta Biswa Sarma, the state's powerful health minister.