Nitin A Gokhale

When you want to punish an erring official, post him to the Northeast. The news that a Punjab and Haryana High Court judge allegedly involved in the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) scam has been recommended for transfer to the Gauhati High Court has triggered off a wave of protest…

The Assam governor, Lt Gen (retd) S.K. Sinha, is once again in the news for the wrong reasons. This time the governor is at loggerheads with Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi over the contentious Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983. Sinha is a staunch proponent of scrapping the controversial…

Manimanik Gogoi was like any other youth in Assam, a graduate from a small-time college looking for a non-existent government job, hanging around with friends all day and heading a youth group called Dighalia Yuvak Sangh. That was till he stumbled upon an innovative programme run by corporate giant Oil…

On October 27, Assam woke up to a terrifying dawn. The rather long lull, which the state had almost got used to, was broken by a violent storm as a group of heavily-armed rebels of the Bhutan-based National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) crossed the border in the Kokrajhar district…

Assamese women’s groups are up in arms over a shocking incident in Nalbari district where the local administration arrested Rita Dutta and Rani Bhattacharyya, allegedly without a warrant, kept them in the Belsor police station for two days and ordered “virginity tests” on them after a news report said they…