At least eight people have died in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in India's remote northeast region, officials said Tuesday according to the Associated Press.
Several railway stations were not working because of floods, said Nazreen (...)
Heavy rains since the start of India's monsoon season have triggered floods and landslides in parts of India's remote northeastern region, causing at least 20 deaths.
The Assam state Disaster Management Authority says people have drowned or suffered (...)
Wildlife activists say human encroachment in the forests of northeast India have forced elephants out of their natural habitats, triggering conflicts with locals.
Conservationists have urged the government to prevent encroachments and free corridors (...)
An Indian rights activist who has waged what is thought to be the world's longest hunger strike ended her 16-year fast on Tuesday after vowing to continue her struggle by standing for election in her home state.
Irom Sharmila, dubbed the "Iron Lady (...)
The death toll in flooding from heavy monsoon rains in India has climbed past 90, with about a million people taking shelter in government-run relief camps, officials said on Tuesday.
Incessant downpours have damaged swaths of land, uprooted trees (...)
Heavy rains and floods have killed at least seven people and forced around 1.2 million to leave their water-logged homes in India's northeastern state of Assam, AP reported.
Army soldiers on Tuesday used boats to rescue thousands of people stranded (...)
Authorities are offering financial help to rebuild damaged homes of nearly 2,000 people after a strong earthquake that struck India's remote northeast along the border with Myanmar early Monday.
L. M. Khaute, the Manipur state police chief, says at (...)
AlQa'dah 17, 1436, September 01, 2015, SPA -- Monsoon floods have inundated hundreds of villages across the northeast Indian state of Assam, killing at least 21 people in the last four days and forcing some 800,000 people to leave their homes, AP (...)
Police said rebels have ambushed a military convoy in India's insurgency-wracked northeast, killing at least 10 soldiers and wounding 12 others, AP reported.
Police said the ambush occurred Thursday as the convoy was on its way from a small town to (...)
A crude bomb exploded Wednesday in a crowded market in northeastern India, killing at least three people and injuring 15 others, police said.
According to AP, a police official in Imphal, the capital of Manipur state, said the blast occurred when (...)
Police on Sunday fired rubber bullets and used batons to disperse hundreds of villagers protesting the abductions and killings of four traders in India's remote northeast, where ethnic tensions run high, AP reported.
The protesters defied a curfew (...)
Police say a crude bomb has exploded in India's troubled northeast, wounding at least six passersby.
According to AP, the improvised device went off near the Manipur University complex on Saturday in Imphal, the capital of Manipur state.
A police (...)
Indian authorities rushed food and drinking water Saturday to thousands of people marooned by monsoon rains and mudslides that left at least 11 dead in the remote northeast, according to AP
Residents waded through waist- and knee-deep water in (...)
Suspected insurgents have ambushed and killed two policemen in the rebels' stronghold in India's remote northeast.
Police officer A.P. Raut says security forces found the bullet-riddled bodies of a senior police officer and his guard Friday near (...)
Separatist militants opened fire with automatic weapons on Muslim villagers in remote northeastern India, killing at least 10 people, including two children, in two attacks, police said Friday. Four people were wounded.
Rebels from one faction of (...)
A passenger train has derailed in northeastern India, injuring dozens of passengers, AP reported.
State-owned Indian Railways said in a statement that the engine and nine of the train's 13 coaches jumped the track early Wednesday near the Jagiroad (...)
AlHijjah 25, 1434, Oct 30, 2013, SPA -- A crude bomb exploded as people waited at a central bus stop in northeast India on Wednesday morning, killing two people a day after another blast at a market in the same city, police said.
No one has claimed (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1434, Oct 29, 2013, SPA -- Police say they are investigating the explosion of a crude bomb that injured five people in a marketplace in northeast India, AP reported.
A police official in the Manipur state capital of Imphal says the (...)
AlQa'dah 27, 1434, Oct 3, 2013, SPA -- A cargo truck crashed into two minivans packed with laborers headed to work early Thursday in northeast India, killing 30 people, including 13 children, police said.
Another 18 people were injured when the (...)
AlQa'dah 27, 1434, Oct 3, 2013, SPA -- A cargo truck crashed into two minivans packed with laborers headed to work early Thursday in northeast India, killing 30 people, including 13 children, police said, according to AP.
Another 18 people were (...)
Bhutan's main opposition party, has won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections and will take over power in the tiny Himalayan nation.
The People's Democratic Party won 32 seats in the 47-member National Assembly in the elections held (...)
Tens of thousands of people in Bhutan lined up Saturday to elect a government in the tiny Himalayan nation's second parliamentary elections, AP reported.
An earlier round held in May eliminated three of five political parties, leaving Bhutan's (...)
Four members of a family sleeping in their makeshift bamboo home were fatally shot in renewed ethnic violence in a riot-hit district in India's remote northeast, police said Saturday.
Two family members survived the attack by armed assailants on (...)
AlQa'dah 7, 1433, Sep 23, 2012, SPA - A flash flood triggered by torrential rain has killed at least nine construction workers and left 15 others missing and feared dead in India's remote northeast.
Karma Zyatso, chief secretary of Sikkim state, (...)
Police say a crowded passenger bus has fallen into a mountain gorge in India's remote northeast and at least 31 people have died.
State police chief N. Ramachandran said another 34 passengers were injured in the accident in the northeastern state of (...)
