Dinesh Das

A man and his son died inside a well due to suffocation when they went down to clean it in the Japorigog area of the city on Saturday morning.

Jibeshwar Das is not sleeping well for the past few nights. At first, he was worried because of deficient rainfall in the initial months of monsoon, which forced him to start rice cultivation late this year.

The court of district and sessions judge Yogesh Kumar Gupta in Tehri Garhwal on Tuesday awarded 14 years jail term to a 27-year-old woman, and life imprisonment to her 28-year-old lover, and the latter's 30-year-old cousin for the gruesome murder of the woman's husband.

The three-day theatre festival Natyadhara, which is held every month, is on at Bhanjakala Mandap in the city.

Protesters moved the office of the Azara revenue circle chanting anti-government slogans.They submitted a memorandum to the circle officer urging him to stop the eviction of families living in Patgaon.

"Like the rampant corruption in the implementation of MGNREGA, the lethargy shown by the Centre and the state government in ensuring implementation of the RTE Act is bound to paralyze government-run schools.

Days after a 26-year-old man was found dead in his house in Kempty village near Mussoorie, police arrested his wife and two others on charges of murder. Police said the accused had confessed to the crime.

Six persons died of electrocution and in landslides after torrential rain on Thursday night submerged large areas of Assam's capital city paralysing normal life.

It was a solemn occasion no doubt, but some people were seen doing brisk business at Gauhati University.

In a heart-wrenching incident, a 10-year-old boy named Pawan Kumar lost his life in Jamui due to a financial disagreement. His lifeless body was uncovered in a nearby forest after a frantic search for the missing child. Authorities took a neighbor into custody, who later admitted to the tragic act.

A five-day theatre festival, organized by the Artists' Welfare Fund of Assam (AWFA) and scheduled to begin on Monday at Rabindra Bhavan here, will launch five plays - two Assamese, two Bengali and one Hindi.

Tension prevailed at Rani Tea Estate on the outskirts of the city on Monday, after police picked up workers' leader Dinesh Das in a case related to the burning of property in the garden two years ago.

A controversy has erupted over the Assamese translation of Mao Tse-Tung's book 'On New Democracy'.

The Sangrami Krishak Sramik Sangha (SKSS), a social organisation, criticized Assam Police for failing to check human trafficking in the state and demanded financial assistance for the victims of the crime.

He is politically conscious and had attained the age to exercise franchise long ago. The problems plaguing society are a cause of concern for him for which he had raised his voice a number of times, but in vain.

"All the witnesses have identified Mridul as Pradip's killer," said Dinesh Das, the president of Sangrami Krishak Sramik Santha (SKSS), who is pressing the administration to take action in the case.

In the last three days, the militant group has killed 68 people in Assam, mostly migrants from Bihar.

Das alleged that police were harassing him and said the officers told his family that he was wanted in connection with a case filed by Mridul Kumar Bhattacharyya, the owner of the tea estate.

An elephant was found dead in a village near the India-Bhutan border in Assam's Udalguri district as man-elephant conflict turned more intense in the district.

Poorly maintained conditions of electrification across the state has been claiming hundreds of lives, especially in the monsoon months.

The death count from floods battering Telangana climbed to 21 on Saturday after five persons were crushed under the debris of walls or washed away by the tide in Medak, Siddipet and Warangal districts.

This year, only 42.11% students in Chirang district could clear the matric exam, the lowest in Assam.

Friday's mayhem in Kokrajhar town has brought back memories of past ethnic and religious violence that cost hundreds of lives in Assam's Bodo belt.

The Election Commission on Thursday stopped the premier of a film starring Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi mid-way on grounds of violation of the model code of conduct. Gogoi plays a chief minister in the movie.