|
Fresh violence rocks Assam's Kokrajhar, Dhubri
Monday August 27, 2012 08:17:31 AM,
IANS
|
|
|
|
|
Guwahati:
Fresh incidents of violence were reported Sunday from Assam's
troubled Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts.
Police recovered the body of a missing person near Bogribari area
in Dhubri district Sunday morning, while two people, including a
woman, were injured in an attack by a group of miscreants in
Salakati area of Kokrajhar district, a senior police officer said.
Five bodies were recovered from Chirang district Saturday evening,
following which an indefinite curfew was clamped in the district
and which continued Sunday.
Following the Bodoland Peoples' Front (BPF) suspending its
indefinite bandh to protest against the arrest of it's legislator
Pradeep Brahma last Thursday, the indefinite curfew in Kokrajhar
district was relaxed from 4 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Brahma was arrested for his alleged role in the violence.
The three districts of western Assam - Kokrajhar, Chirang and
Dhubri - have since July 19 witnessed violent clashes between the
Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers, which claimed 86 lives
till Sunday.
The violence has displaced over 400,000 people - the majority of
whom are still living in relief camps in the three districts.
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
i |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More Headlines |
|
PM heads for Tehran NAM summit, meeting with
Ahmadinejad |
|
Panic post Assam riots exposes human trafficking in Goa mines |
|
India test-fires Prithvi-II missile |
|
Anti-Mursi rallies in Egypt receive poor response |
|
Over 200 including children killed in fresh
Syrian aggression: activists |
|
SC to hear CBI plea against Advani in Babri Masjid case |
|
Alzheimer's can be diagnosed with eye test |
|
Scientists find new ways of choking tumours |
|
Humans are cancer prone, but chimps are not |
|
New York gunman kills one; shot dead |
|
13 killed as train hits auto-rickshaw in
Odisha |
|
Hindi originated in Turkey? |
|
Sowing the whirlwind in India |
|
|
|
Top Stories |
|
Government denies censorship as Twitter agrees
to block imposter sites
Meanwhile, some Twitter users, including Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi, decided to blackout their Display Picture »
Respect internet freedom, US tells India
Government notifies guidelines for social media use
|
|
|
|
Most Read |
|
 SC dismisses Swamy's plea against Chidambaram
In major
relief for Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, the Supreme Court
Friday rejected Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy's plea to
make him co-accused along with former communications
»
|
|
 Patnaik transfer: Implication on police force
What they want to say? They would have been happy when dozens of
Muslims would have died in police firing as happened about two
decades ago during the protest against The Satanic Verses?
»
Mumbai violence fallout: Police Commissioner
Patnaik transferred
|
|
|
|
News Pick |
|
 Arafat's remains to be tested for Polonium poisoning
The widow of Yasser Arafat has given her approval for a Swiss
radiation laboratory to examine the body of the late Palestinian
leader
»
|
|
 Sowing
the whirlwind in India
Who’s
sowing the seeds of hatred in India in the name of marginalized
Muslims?
Even if some websites are responsible for those morphed images,
what explains
»
|
|
India
tighten grip on first Test against New Zealand
India
tightened their grip on the first Test as New Zealand were
struggling at 106 for five in the first innings, still needing 133
runs to avoid the follow-on, after the second day's play in the
first Test at the Rajiv Gandhi
»
|
|
South Africa approves ‘Made in Palestinian Territories’ tags
South Africa’s cabinet on Wednesday said it had approved the
placing of Occupied Palestinian Territory labels on imported goods
from Jewish settlements. The trade minister was given the nod to
issue a notice requiring
»
|
|
|
|
Picture of the Day |
|
 |
|
Prime
Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh conferring Degree of Doctor of
Science (Honoris Causa) to Azim Premji, the Chairman, Wipro
Limited, at the Golden Jubilee Convocation of IIT Bombay, in
Mumbai on August 18, 2012. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links