February 25, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, February 24: For Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, a new crisis a week has become almost a regular affair. While the Ta...
Wed, Feb 25, 1998February 25, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, February 24: The Assam Government seems all set to draw up a Nagaland-type cease-fire with the outlawed United Liberation Front of...
Wed, Feb 25, 1998February 15, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Feb 14: The Centre today air-dashed two battalions of the Army and 60 companies of para-military forces to Assam to help conduct s...
Sun, Feb 15, 1998February 12, 1998 00:00 IST
JORHAT, February 11: ``I am ashamed of telling people that I too was in politics three decades ago. Those days were so different. I got vote...
Thu, Feb 12, 1998February 10, 1998 00:00 IST
JORHAT, February 9: Voters in the four Upper Assam districts of Jorhat, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh and Tinsukhia, which were considered to be a str...
Tue, Feb 10, 1998February 08, 1998 00:00 IST
Will the Governor's decision to reject the CBI's request help Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and his party in the election? The...
Sun, Feb 08, 1998February 07, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, February 6: Assam Governor SK Sinha's emphatic ``no'' to the CBI's plea to grant sanction to prosecute Chief Minister Prafulla Kum...
Sat, Feb 07, 1998February 04, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, February 3: The proposed Tezpur visit of star Congress campaigner Sonia Gandhi is likely to be called off, with the controversy su...
Wed, Feb 04, 1998February 04, 1998 00:00 IST
BALAGAON, February 3: Come elections, and political parties wake up from their slumber and begin shedding tears for the 1.5 lakh people livi...
Wed, Feb 04, 1998January 28, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Jan 27: Twenty-five members of the Rajya Sabha belonging to the Congress party have written to the President, K R Narayanan, deman...
Wed, Jan 28, 1998January 27, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Jan 25: Raj Bhavan has expressed its dissatisfaction over the reply furnished by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to subs...
Tue, Jan 27, 1998January 26, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Jan 25: Raj Bhavan has expressed its dissatisfaction over the reply furnished by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to subs...
Mon, Jan 26, 1998January 19, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Jan 18: In an attempt to contain the political damage caused by his being named in the Letter of Credit (LoC) scam, Assam Chief Mi...
Mon, Jan 19, 1998January 18, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Jan 17: In an attempt to contain the political damage caused by his being named in the Letter of Credit (LoC) scam, Assam Chief Mi...
Sun, Jan 18, 1998January 17, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, January 16: The Assam police last night arrested four senior officials of Doordarshan Kendra, Guwahati, for allegedly fomenting co...
Sat, Jan 17, 1998January 15, 1998 00:00 IST
KEKERIKUCHI (ASSAM), Jan 14: Bodo militants massacred 17 persons, including nine women and a minor girl, and injured five seriously during t...
Thu, Jan 15, 1998January 12, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Jan 11: On June 28, 1990, several top tea planters of the country drove down a meandering and slippery road from Dibrugarh. The ro...
Mon, Jan 12, 1998January 12, 1998 00:00 IST
Guwahati, January 11: The security forces are mounting pressure on members of the outlawed militant outfit -- United Liberation Front of Ass...
Mon, Jan 12, 1998January 08, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Jan 7: The Congress Party today levelled serious charges against Assam Governor S K Sinha, saying state Chief Minister Prafulla Ku...
Thu, Jan 08, 1998January 05, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, January 4: Top officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have begun arriving in Guwahati to submit the final report i...
Mon, Jan 05, 1998January 04, 1998 00:00 IST
For Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, December has always been a decisive month. It is, in fact, the month in which he was born 4...
Sun, Jan 04, 1998January 01, 1998 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Dec 31: Suspected Bodo militants gunned down 12 persons including five women and two children at village Nichilamari under Tangla ...
Thu, Jan 01, 1998December 26, 1997 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, December 25: Abducted social worker Sanjoy Ghosh's wife, Sumita Ghosh, and aunt, Arundhati Ghose, former Indian envoy to the Unit...
Fri, Dec 26, 1997December 22, 1997 00:00 IST
Though Assam will be sending only 14 Lok Sabha members to Parliament after the polls, the number is a misleading index of its importance. O...
Mon, Dec 22, 1997December 14, 1997 00:00 IST
GUWAHATI, Dec 13: With the threat of the letter of credit (LoC) scandal hanging over it, the ruling Asom Gana Parishad has decided that att...
Sun, Dec 14, 1997