In her complaint to police, the woman claimed that her husband had demanded gold jewellery as dowry, and when his demand was not met, he along with his friends raped her on April 17

Newly-married woman allegedly raped by husband, his two friends in Assam

Sitharaman also visited the Chabua IAF base station in Assam's Dibrugarh to witness its Gagan Shakti Exercise 2018, a pan-India exercise which is in its second phase.

Nirmala Sitharaman visits Arunachal, Assam

Varsha Rajkhowa, 26, won the Miss Scuba International beauty pageant in Malaysia. She could now, arguably and with a little hyperbole, be called 'chief spokesperson of the world's oceans'

The Indian beauty queen that no one has heard of

Chinese engineers are reportedly testing techniques that could be used to build a 1,000 km-long tunnel — the world’s longest — to divert water from the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh to the parched Xinjiang region

Future will be dark: Ex-Assam CM says China diverting Brahmaputra water

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal strongly condemned the incident and said the government would not tolerate such acts.

Syama Prasad Mukherjee's statue vandalised in Assam

Deputy police commissioner of Gurugram had imposed prohibitory orders to ease traffc congestion as thousands were left stranded

Police deployed in India's business hub Gurugram to manage traffic, rain continues to lash major cities

'Other issue is planned immigration taking place because of our western neighbour. They will always try and ensure that this area is taken over. This proxy dimension of warfare is well played by our western neighbour and supported by our northern neighbour,' Rawat said

Migration from Bangladesh part of proxy war by Pakistan, supported by China: Army Chief

It is suspected that the crash took place due to technical reasons

Indian Airforce helicopter crashes at Majuli in Assam

The blasts were minor and there were no casualties

Republic Day: 3 blasts in Assam, woman suicide bomber apprehended in Kashmir, cop shoots himself in Punjab

The earthquake originated in Gauripur about 10 kilometres deep.

Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 strikes Assam

In a public meeting at Ahmedpur in Birbhum district, the West Bengal chief minister had described the current updation of the NRC as an attempt to drive out Bengalis from Assam

FIR registered against Mamata Banerjee over statements on NRC

'Why are they doing this to me? They think I am a Bangladeshi. I was born here, my parents were born here, I am an Indian,' said Marzina Bibi, whose name was not included in the first draft of the National Register of Citizens

Indian or not? Fear in Assam over citizens' register

WION Morning News Brief, January 4, 2018

The issue of identifying the 'outsider' has emerged as the most enduring of issues but it has sidelined a host of serious issues of Assam, from employment to maternal mortality.

Opinion: Assam's National Register of Citizens is a futile process

Rajinder Khanna who joined RAW in 1978, is said to be an expert on terrorism

Government appoints former RAW chief Rajinder Khanna as Deputy National Security Advisor

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has cited reports indicating that a radical outfit has been trying to expand its network in regions of Assam and Manipur

Areas of Assam-Manipur prone to radicalisation: Government

The next draft will reportedly be out in April and will be completed by 2018 itself, as per guidelines of the supreme court

Assam releases first draft with 1.9 crore names as 'legal' residents

WION Morning News brief, 29 December 2017

The National Register of Citizens will be released on Sunday

Assam tense ahead of citizens' list identifying 'illegal Bangladeshis'

About 400 people die in India due to elephant attacks each year, the number of injuries are often much higher.

Opinion: When the God is portrayed as an enemy

Ninong Ering, Congress MP from the east Constituency here has reportedly written to PM Modi seeking his intervention on the issue.

Watch: Locals enraged as Siang river in Arunachal Pradesh turns black

One terrorist was killed in the encounter with two Army personnel injured.

Terrorists ambush Assam Regiment soldiers in Manipur

One jawan died on the spot while seven others were injured in the blast. An injured jawan succumbed to injuries on way to hospital, the police said

Two Assam Rifles jawans killed, six injured in IED explosion

In addition, Admiral (Retd) DK Joshi was made LG of Andaman and Nicobar

Five states get new governors

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