Former militants to make sanitary pads in Assam

The hands that once trained to fire guns are now learning to make sanitary pads in Assam's Udalguri district. Image used only for representation. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters Former women......

Centre offers violence-hit Assam more forces

The Centre on Saturday made available additional forces to violence-hit Assam as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the "cowardly" terror attack and promised all measures to restore peace......

Gogoi seeks NIA probe into Assam violence

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday asked for a probe by the National Investigation Agency into the violence by Bodo militant group NDFB(S) in the state and vowed to apprehend those......

Assam violence: 9 more bodies recovered, toll mounts to 32

Nine more bodies were recovered from a village in Baksa district on Saturday morning, taking the toll to 32 in the violence unleashed by National Democratic Front of Bodoland-Songbijit militants in......