All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) asked its general secretary Sankor Jyoti Baruah to go on leave after his former fiancee, an AASU member, lodged an FIR accusing him of sexual assault and intimidation

Two protesters were killed and 11 others were injured in police firing during a drive to evict alleged encroachers in Kamrup (Metropolitan) district of Assam, a top police officer said. Twenty-two police personnel and a government official were...

Manipur, thought to be on the mend until a fresh outbreak of violence since Sept 1 resulted in 11 deaths, returned to shutdown mode after the administration clamped an indefinite total curfew in three districts, blocked broadband and mobile...

Hundreds of enraged students clashed with police in Imphal following killing of a retired havildar and a woman as violence flared up in Manipur that has claimed 11 lives since Sept 1

Assam govt has announced plans to implement 57 of 67 recommendations made by Union home ministry-appointed commission for safeguarding interests of indigenous people

Two insurgent groups in Tripura sign a peace deal at a ceremony held in New Delhi, marking the end of decades of armed conflict in the region. Union home minister Amit Shah, who presided over the signing, hailed the event as a historic moment.

Supreme Court dismissed a petition by Sandip Ghosh, arrested ex-principal of RG Kar medical college, seeking to intervene in proceedings before Calcutta HC. The HC had ordered CBI to probe an alleged scam in biomedical waste disposal in the...

Thousands flooded the streets as Kolkata saw a surge in citizen protests, praying that next day’s sun would bring with it the much-awaited verdict when the Supreme Court hears the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder case.

A delegation of junior doctors, protesting against the R.G. Kar rape and murder, met Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal and handed over a letter demanding his resignation. They gifted him a replica of a human spine.

CBI arrested RG Kar hospital’s ex-principal Sandip Ghosh along with his security guard and two others - a hospital vendor and a medicine store owner - after interrogating him through the day on corruption charges levelled against him by a former...